Wheeler County Veterans Aid Fund, through the Holt County office

Wheeler County’s section 80-102 Veterans Aid fund held $9,691 in July 2025 with no levy and paid nothing in the two years before, though the 2025-2026 budget sets $20,000 for emergency relief; Wheeler County veterans apply through Holt County’s officer in O’Neill, and the county’s page still asks for wartime service and an honorable discharge, tests the 2024 amendment removed.

Also called: Veterans Aid, county veterans aid, CVA, fund 1900, 80-102, emergency relief, wartime era, Ken Stenka, Holt County, O'Neill, Bartlett, Ericson.

For: Veteran or service member, spouse, child, survivor.

Where it applies

Written for the jurisdictions listed here.

Wheeler County, NECounty

The officer. Wheeler County's Veterans Services page lists Holt County's Veterans Service Officer, Ken Stenka, and office manager Mick McIntire at the Holt County office, 410 E. Benton Street, O'Neill, 402-336-1200 (see the Holt County office entry, which also serves Wheeler County). Its County Benefits page lists county veterans aid, a bronze grave flag holder, registration of DD-214s, homestead help, grave registration with a Presidential Memorial Certificate, and benefits counselling; the County Clerk records a DD 214 brought to the office. What the page says. Wheeler County's County Benefits page calls the CVA fund "a temporary emergency fund to assist veterans, their spouses, and dependents when there is an unforeseen emergency and there are no other resources available", for food, shelter, clothing, funeral, medical, dental and surgical items, applied for through the County Service Office, where the veteran "must demonstrate an 'inability'" to pay. The test it prints is out of date. The page limits the fund to veterans who "received an Honorable Discharge, and served during one of the defined 'wartime eras'". LB1300 (Laws 2024, section 45) struck the wartime-service test from section 80-102, which now reaches a veteran discharged honorable or general (under honorable conditions), or who died in service, who has lived a year in Nebraska and six months in the county, and a spouse, surviving spouse or minor child in need. A peacetime veteran, or one with a general discharge, should apply anyway. What the fund holds and pays. Wheeler County's filed 2025-2026 budget's Veterans Aid fund (1900) held $9,685 on July 1, 2023, $9,688 on July 1, 2024 and $9,691 on July 1, 2025, its only receipts $3 a year in lieu of tax, and paid nothing in either year; the county levies nothing for it. The 2025-2026 budget sets $20,000 for emergency relief, more than twice the balance (its fund page counts $10,306 of miscellaneous receipts for the year, and its budget summary $20,000 of available resources), and no claim on the fund appears in the Board's 2025 and 2026 claims lists. How to apply. Through the Holt County office, 402-336-1200. See the Nebraska entry on the county fund for the committee's discretion and the State's own aid fund.

Thresholds

Thresholds for Wheeler County Veterans Aid Fund, through the Holt County office
Gate	Rule
Veteran, spouse, surviving spouse or minor child in need	Section 80-102 as amended in 2024: honorable or general service, a year in Nebraska and six months in Wheeler County, and need the committee assesses; the county page’s wartime test no longer applies. No rating is required.

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Last updated 2026-10-30.

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