A Tuolumne County employee working half time or more who is called to, or volunteers for, active duty during a period of armed conflict has military pay topped up to the county base salary after the State's paid military leave, and keeps family health, dental and vision cover with the county's share of the premium (Ordinance Code chapter 2.57).
Regular county employees called to active duty. Half time or more, not relief staff, on ordered active duty during a period of armed conflict; no rating is needed.
In unincorporated Tuolumne County a veteran with an honorable discharge or a release from active duty under honorable conditions gets the Sheriff's itinerant vendor permit without the $25 a year fee (Ordinance Code 5.08.040), but must still apply, with photograph, fingerprints and record, and meet the rest of the chapter.
Veterans under Business and Professions Code 16102. An honorable discharge or release under honorable conditions; no rating is needed. The permit must still be applied for.
Tuolumne County takes active-duty service members in their last 180 days of service as SkillBridge interns under the Defense Department's programme: the member keeps military pay and benefits while the county gives training and work experience; open places are posted on the county's jobs page under "intern".
Active-duty members in their last 180 days. Command approval under the SkillBridge rules; no rating is needed.
Protects a civilian job, seniority and health coverage when a worker leaves for military service, for up to five years of cumulative service with one employer.
Civilian employee entering service. Covers employees who leave a civilian job for uniformed service and meet the notice and return rules.
Ten points added to a local civil service examination for a veteran and fifteen for a disabled veteran, where disabled means a current service-connected rating of zero percent or more. A spouse or widow gets the same fifteen.
Ten points for a veteran. The March 14, 2025 summary adds ten points to a veteran\u2019s score on local civil service examinations.
An annual December auction of taxi medallions open to Virgin Islands veterans only, with minimum bids of $20,000 on St. Thomas and St. John and $8,000 on St. Croix and a three-year ban on resale.
Virgin Islands Veteran only. The Office of Veterans Affairs limits this benefit to a Virgin Islands Veteran: someone who was a domiciliary of the Virgin Islands and who entered the armed services in the Virgin Islands, or who was a domiciliary but entered in another jurisdiction while temporarily residing there. A veteran who moved to the territory after service does not meet it.
New in 2026: the Division of Professional Licensing must, with the veterans department, publish a public resource mapping military skills, credentials, training and education onto Utah licence requirements, and must then give a veteran or serving member credit for them where the requirements are not otherwise met. The reporting duty expires in 2029; the benefit itself does not.
Covers a veteran or a currently serving member. Utah Code § 58-1-313(1)(b) defines service member by reference to § 71A-1-101, so a serving member may use the section before separating. "Veteran" carries the § 68-3-12.5 definition.
Utah community colleges must give enrolment preference to veterans who show anything other than a dishonorable discharge, which is the widest discharge test in the Utah code. Separately, every public institution must tell an applicant in writing that a counsellor meeting is required to receive credit for military training, and must report the credits awarded to the veterans department each year.
Other than a dishonorable discharge is enough for community college preference. Utah Code § 53H-3-1103(1). This is wider than the § 68-3-12.5 definition of veteran and reaches an other than honorable, bad conduct or uncharacterized discharge.
Any Utah veteran, at any age, may enrol at a public institution in classes with surplus space and is exempt from tuition and other charges except a registration fee the board sets. It is the least known education benefit in Utah, it has no degree requirement and no cap, and the price of it is that you are admitted only after the regularly enrolled students.
Any Utah veteran, at any age. Utah Code § 53H-11-304(2)(a) reaches Utah residents "who have reached 62 years old or are veterans as defined in Section 68-3-12.5". No rating, no wartime period, no degree requirement.
A Utah local school board may award an honorary high school diploma to a veteran of World War II, Korea or Vietnam who left school to enlist. It reaches someone who has since moved away, as long as they lived in the district when they left, and it is available to a veteran released because of a service-related disability rather than discharged honorably. The board decides whether to do it at all.
The district decides whether to award one at all. Utah Code § 53G-7-214(1) says a local school board "may" award the diploma. Practice varies district by district; there is no statewide entitlement.
State employees get 15 days of paid military leave a year on top of vacation; counties and cities may grant the same but do not have to. Any reserve component member gets up to five years of unpaid leave, and discriminating in hiring on reserve membership is a class B misdemeanor. A professional licence that expires during activation is extended 90 days and renewed free with continuing education waived.
15 paid days a year is mandatory for state employees and discretionary for cities and counties. Utah Code § 71A-8-102(1) says state employees "shall be allowed full pay"; subsection 2 says county and municipal employees "may be allowed up to full pay" at the employer’s discretion. Either way it is on top of vacation leave.
The Utah National Guard may pay tuition and fees for an active member at a Utah institution, capped at the resident rate for the course actually taken, and fees here expressly include required textbooks and course materials. The adjutant general may also use the same appropriation to repay a member’s student loans. Both are discretionary and both can be recouped if you stop meeting the requirements.
You must be an active member of the National Guard when the assistance is received. Utah Code § 39A-3-201(2)(a) for tuition and fees, and subsection 6(b) for loan repayment. Separation ends both.
A Utah resident veteran who earned a Purple Heart gets undergraduate tuition waived outright at any public institution, full-time, part-time or summer. Graduate tuition is waived up to $15,000, raised from $10,000 in 2026, and the 2026 act also removed the rule that you had to start graduate study within ten years of your undergraduate degree. Fees are excluded, twice over.
A Purple Heart earned as a result of military service, and Utah residence. Utah Code § 53H-11-303(1)(a). No disability rating, no wartime period and no limit on when the award was earned.
A Utah public officer or employee who enters military service gets up to five years of leave, must be restored to the same or an equivalent position within 20 days of asking, and cannot be discharged or have pay cut without cause for a year after returning. If the employer refuses, the district court hears it on a speedy basis with no court costs against you and attorney fees if you win.
Up to five years of leave, state or federal service. Utah Code § 71A-8-101(2) covers "state or federal active service in any branch of the armed forces of this state or of the United States".
A Utah public institution must classify a veteran as a resident student for tuition on evidence of an honorable or general discharge, regardless of whether the veteran ever served in Utah, with no durational residency, no GI Bill condition and no window after discharge. The veteran’s spouse and dependent children get it on the same evidence, and active duty members, their families, ROTC participants and Department of Defense civilians each have their own route.
An honorable or general discharge is the entire test. Utah Code § 53H-11-202(8)(c): an institution shall grant resident student status to "a military veteran, regardless of whether the military veteran served in Utah". No durational residency, no GI Bill condition, no window after discharge.
An employer who hires a veteran discharged within the last two years who is on or has exhausted unemployment benefits can claim $200 a month in year one and $400 a month in year two, up to $2,400 and $4,800. The veteran must work 35 hours a week for at least 45 of the 52 weeks after starting. It pays the employer, not the veteran, which is why it is worth raising in an interview.
Mobilised to active federal service, discharged honorable or general within two years. Utah Code § 59-10-1031(1). The two-year window runs from discharge to the date the employment begins, and drill-only reserve service does not qualify.
A Utah private employer may prefer veterans, and if it does the policy must be in writing, applied uniformly to hiring, promotion and retention including during a layoff, and publicly posted. That gives a veteran something to read and something to hold the employer to. The state will help the employer verify your status.
Permission for the employer, with conditions attached to the policy. Utah Code § 34-50-103(1) makes it optional, but subsection 2 requires any policy to be in writing and applied uniformly to hiring, promotion and retention including during a reduction in force.
Five percent of the total possible score for a veteran or a currently serving service member, ten percent for one with a disability of any percentage or a Purple Heart, and the same percentage for a spouse or surviving spouse. Where there is no numeric score you get interview preference. Willfully failing to give the preference is a class B misdemeanor.
Preference eligible includes serving members, spouses and retirees. Utah Code § 71A-2-101(1)(c): any veteran or service member, an individual with a disability regardless of percentage, the spouse or surviving spouse of a veteran or service member, a Purple Heart recipient, or a retired member of the armed forces.
A grant for a veteran in the final year of a bachelor’s degree who has run out of federal education benefits. Unlike most tuition help it can pay tuition, fees, books, education-related supplies and a housing allowance, and it works at private Utah institutions as well as public ones. You must complete a FAFSA, and the award ceiling is set by the board rather than the statute.
Federal education benefits exhausted or no longer available. Utah Code § 53H-11-413(1)(c)(iii) requires that the veteran has exhausted the federal benefit or demonstrates no longer qualifying under any federal programme, covering 10 U.S.C. ch. 1606 and 38 U.S.C. chs. 30, 31 and 33.
Up to $100 a month, and $1,200 over a lifetime, for tutoring in a course a GI Bill student is failing or at risk of failing.
Using VA education benefits at half time or more. The student must be using a VA education benefit at half time or more.
Tuition, housing and books for a non-degree high-tech training program, for a veteran or separating service member with 36 months of active duty, limited to 4,000 paid participants a fiscal year.
36 months of active duty. At least 36 months of active duty, a discharge other than dishonorable or within 180 days of separating, and under 62.
Five percent of the maximum possible grade is added to a veteran's score on any competitive county civil service examination. It does not apply to promotional examinations, and there is no extra credit for a disability.
Veteran under Government Code 18540.4. Service in a national emergency or expedition and a discharge other than dishonorable. No rating is needed, and a rating adds nothing.
Tuition at a Vermont postsecondary institution for the child, stepchild, or spouse of a service member who died on duty, up to 130 academic credits, with any Pell Grant deducted first. A person who already holds a bachelor’s degree is not eligible.
A death on active or inactive duty, with dates that differ by service. Vermont National Guard: killed since 1955, or died since January 1, 2001. Active Reserve Forces: died since January 1, 2001 while a Vermont resident. Active Armed Forces: died since January 1, 2001 as a Vermont resident or in a Vermont-based unit mobilized to active duty. No disability rating is involved, so the rating filter never hides this benefit.
A Vermont school board that maintains a secondary school shall, on request, award a high school diploma to a Vermont resident who served in World War II, the Korean War, or the Vietnam era, was honorably separated, and does not hold one.
Wartime service, honorable separation, no existing diploma. The veteran must have served in World War II, the Korean War, or during the Vietnam era, been honorably separated from active federal military service, and not already hold a high school diploma. No disability rating is involved, so the rating filter never hides this benefit.
An uncapped right to a leave of absence for drill, training, or other temporary duty, USERRA protection extended to State active duty, employer-paid health insurance continued during a call-up, and punitive damages against an employer who violates it.
Membership in a reserve component or the National Guard. The subchapter covers members of the Reserve Components of the U.S. Armed Forces, the Ready Reserve, the Vermont National Guard, and the National Guard of another state, with the same protection regardless of the activation authority or the location of service. No disability rating is involved, so the rating filter never hides this benefit.
In-state tuition paid for a Vermont National Guard member at UVM, a Vermont State College, a Vermont private college, or a training institution, and since June 27, 2025 for a graduate degree and for a member who already holds a bachelor’s degree. The commitment is two years of service per academic year.
Active Vermont National Guard membership, resident or not. The member must be an active member of the Vermont National Guard who has completed basic training, whether a resident or a nonresident of Vermont. No disability rating is involved, so the rating filter never hides this benefit.
A statutory preference in certification, appointment, employment, and retention wherever State funds furnish the payroll, in five ranked classes. The top class needs only the present existence of a service-connected disability, with no percentage.
The present existence of a service-connected disability, at any percentage. The first preference class asks only that the veteran has established the present existence of a service-connected disability, or is receiving compensation or disability retirement benefits from VA or DoD. No percentage appears in the section, so a 0 percent rating reaches it and the rating filter never hides this benefit.
Work support, and sometimes training, when a service-connected disability limits the work a veteran can do. Also called VR&E or Voc Rehab.
Service-connected rating. The basic published gate is a service-connected disability rating of at least 10%, plus an employment handicap. A memorandum rating is a separate path for some serious employment handicaps.
SBA certification that lets a veteran-owned or service-disabled veteran-owned small business compete for federal sole-source and set-aside contracts.
Any service-connected rating for SDVOSB. SDVOSB needs a service-connected disability at any rating, including 0%. VOSB needs no rating.
Honorably discharged veteran and military status is a protected class under the Guam Employment Relations Act, covering employers, employment agencies, labour organizations, job advertisements and application forms.
No rating requirement. The protected characteristic is veteran and military status. Nothing in the chapter turns on a disability percentage, though a service-connected disability may also engage the separate disability protections in the same list.
Paid part-time work on VA-related jobs at a school, VA facility or veterans’ organization for a student using VA education benefits at three-quarter time or more.
Three-quarter time or more. Enrolled at least three-quarter time and using a listed VA education benefit.
Every Virginia county, city, and town has to consider or prefer an honorably discharged veteran who meets a job’s requirements, with additional consideration for a VA service-connected rating.
Service-connected rating. An honorably discharged veteran who meets the job requirements gets consideration or preference. A service-connected rating fixed by VA adds consideration and can meet the veteran definition without 180 days of active duty.
Tuition and mandatory-fee waiver at Virginia public colleges for the spouse or child of a veteran rated permanently and totally disabled, or at least 90% permanently disabled, because of military service.
Totally and permanently disabled. One path is a VA rating of totally and permanently disabled because of military service. The student is the spouse, or a child age 16 through 29, and has to meet Virginia domicile rules.
A Service-Disabled Veteran-owned designation in the state SWaM vendor directory for a small business whose owner DVS has certified as a service-disabled veteran.
Service-disabled veteran owner. The owner has to be certified by the Department of Veterans Services as a service-disabled veteran, and the firm has to meet the small-business certification SBSD uses for the directory.
On a Commonwealth job filled by written exam, five points after a passing score, or ten points when VA has fixed a service-connected rating. Other jobs get a selection preference.
Service-connected rating. A service-connected rating raises the written-exam addition from five percent to ten percent, and it is additional consideration on jobs that have no exam. A veteran with an honorable discharge and more than 180 consecutive days of active duty qualifies for the five-percent and selection preference without a rating.
A permission, not an entitlement. Private employers in the Commonwealth may prefer veterans, their widows and widowers, and the spouses of permanently and totally disabled veterans, and doing so is declared not to violate equal employment law.
Permission for the employer, not a right for the veteran. 1 CMC § 20134 creates a permissive preference. A private employer may prefer a veteran and is shielded from equal employment opportunity claims for doing so. Nothing requires an employer to prefer anyone, and there is no remedy for a veteran who is not preferred.
Wake County bans discrimination for "National Guard or veteran status" by employers and places of public accommodation, but only in unincorporated Wake County unless a town opts in. Complaints go to the County Manager within 90 days and end in free conciliation; there is no right to sue under it.
Veteran or National Guard member, in unincorporated Wake County. Any veteran or Guard member. The ordinance reaches only unincorporated areas and towns that opt in.
Wakulla County levies a local business tax under chapter 205 at the rates the State once charged (Code chapter 20, Ordinance 79-2), collected by the Tax Collector, whose site publishes nothing about it; section 205.055 exempts an honorably discharged veteran, a spouse or unremarried surviving spouse, and a PCS military spouse, and a business they majority-own with fewer than 100 employees.
Honorably discharged veteran, spouse or surviving spouse, or PCS military spouse. An honourable discharge, or the listed spouse status. No rating is needed.
The Washington County Code carries no local business tax - its taxation chapter holds only the elderly-parent homestead reduction, the local option gas tax and the senior homestead exemption - and the Tax Collector publishes no business tax service, so a veteran opening a business in unincorporated Washington County owes the county none. A city that levies one applies section 205.055.
No county business tax; statute applies where a city levies one. Washington County levies no local business tax, so no veteran exemption is needed at the county level. Any city tax follows section 205.055: honorable discharge, or a listed spouse.
State colleges may waive all or part of tuition and fees for an eligible veteran or Guard member. The word is may, not shall, so each institution runs its own program and the answer differs campus by campus.
Wartime or conflict service on foreign soil, and an institution that grants the waiver. The statutory test is active duty service in a war or conflict on foreign soil, or in support of it, with a qualifying discharge under RCW 73.04.005 (honorable, general, other than honorable with VA monetary benefits, or a sexual orientation or gender identity discharge). The institution may waive rather than must, so eligibility does not guarantee a waiver. No disability rating is involved, and the rating filter never hides this benefit.
Free WDVA certification for a business at least 51% owned and controlled by a veteran with a qualifying discharge, a VA compensation or pension recipient, or an active or reserve member, with a Washington incorporation or principal place of business. It opens state agencies' veteran-owned spending goals and the Linked Deposit Program, which cuts two percentage points off a business loan of up to $1 million.
51% ownership and control by a qualifying veteran or service member, and a Washington business. The gates are at least 51 percent ownership and control by a veteran with a qualifying discharge, a VA compensation or pension recipient, or an active or reserve member, and a Washington incorporation or principal place of business. No disability rating is required, so the rating filter never hides this benefit.
Ten percent added to a passing examination score for a wartime veteran not receiving military retirement, and five percent for a veteran who is, or who did not serve in a war period, until first appointment (RCW 41.04.010). Five percent more on promotional exams for one called to active service from public employment. Where no exam is used, state agencies must refer eligible veterans, surviving spouses and spouses of totally disabled veterans.
Qualifying discharge, wartime service, and whether military retirement is received. The tiers turn on a qualifying discharge, service during a period of war or armed conflict, and whether the veteran receives military retirement. No disability rating is tested anywhere in the statute, so the rating filter never hides this benefit.
Wayne County's civil service rules add 10 points for a war veteran on an open exam and 5 more for a service-connected disability, but only for service in World War II, Korea or the Vietnam era. The county civil service act gives the points for any wartime service, so a Gulf War or later veteran should claim them.
Honorable wartime service. The rule gives 10 points for honorable service in its listed war periods and 5 more with a VA-recognized service-connected disability of any percentage. No rating floor applies.
A Wayne County employee in the retirement system can get up to six years of service credit for wartime or national emergency active duty of 30 days or more: free when the service interrupted county employment, bought at half or full actuarial cost when it did not.
County retirement system member. Active duty of 30 days or more in a war, national emergency or compulsory service period recognized by the retirement commission. No rating is needed.
A business at least 51% owned by veterans, or with veterans making up a quarter of its workforce, can be certified as a Veteran Enterprise and gets a 2% equalization credit on county bids. Any discharge other than dishonorable counts.
Veteran-owned or veteran-staffed business, certified. At least 51% veteran ownership or a workforce at least 25% veterans, certified before the bid deadline. No rating is needed.
A real diploma for a living veteran who left school to serve, issued by the county board of the veteran's choice between where they live and where they would have graduated.
No disability rating required. Eligibility rests on the era of service, an honorable discharge, and having left school before graduating. No rating applies, so the rating filter never hides this entry.
Every public institution must charge the in-state rate to a GI Bill user living in West Virginia, however long ago the discharge. The state rule still prints a three-year window that federal law removed in 2021.
No disability rating required. The rate turns on GI Bill eligibility and the timing of enrollment. No rating applies, so the rating filter never hides this entry.
Eight semesters of undergraduate tuition and mandatory fees waived. A Purple Heart alone qualifies; wounds causing permanent disability or loss of limb make the waiver bigger, not the eligibility narrower.
The award is the qualification, not a rating. Eligibility rests on the Medal of Honor or the Purple Heart, not on a disability percentage, so the rating filter never hides this entry.