A disabled veteran who is a Georgia resident and owes no Georgia income tax can run one business, peddle, or practise a profession in any county or city without paying the local occupation tax, administrative fee or regulatory fee, on a probate court certificate of eligibility valid for ten years and a Department of Veterans Service certificate. A wartime veteran needs a 10% disability, a peacetime veteran 25%.
Disability of 10% (wartime) or 25% (peacetime), and no Georgia income tax owed. A wartime veteran's 10% physical disability can be proved by two physicians, so it need not be a VA rating; a peacetime veteran needs 25% incurred in service. The veteran must also live in Georgia and owe no Georgia income tax. The rating filter does not hide this benefit.
Five points are added to the passing score of an honorably discharged wartime veteran on any competitive civil service examination for the State or any county, city or other political subdivision, and ten points for a veteran with a VA-rated service-connected disability of at least 10%. The points apply only where there is a competitive examination.
Honorably discharged wartime veteran taking a scored civil service exam. Five points need more than 180 days of active duty, some of it in a period of armed conflict, and an honorable discharge. Ten points add a VA rating of at least 10%. Points apply only to a passing score on a competitive exam.
On a scored state entrance exam, ten points are added to a passing score for a service-connected disability of at least 10%, and for the other people the personnel rule lists. Five points apply to the veterans in the five-point class. Preference does not cover promotion.
Exam points or equivalent consideration. Ten points require a passing score and a listed category, including a service-connected disability of at least 10%. Five points cover the veterans in subsection (2)(a). Unscored hiring uses equivalent consideration. Preference does not apply to promotion.
Gila County's Merit System Rule 4, revised April 21, 2026, gives the A.R.S. 38-492 preferences in county hiring: five points for a veteran with more than six months' active duty separated under honorable conditions, five for a veteran's spouse or surviving spouse, ten for a veteran with a service-connected disability, and, where the county interviews instead of scoring, an interview and the job on a tie. File the Request for Veteran's Preference Points with the application.
Veterans, spouses and surviving spouses under A.R.S. 38-492. More than six months of active duty and separation under honorable conditions; a service-connected disability raises the points to ten. No rating is needed for the base preference.
Grant County's employment policy (County Code section 250.00) gives an employee in the National Guard or a reserve component two weeks of military leave a year; the State's statute for public employees gives 15 days with pay, so ask which the county applies.
Grant County employee in the Guard or a reserve component. Membership and orders; no rating is needed.
Greene County gives an employee in the Guard or a reserve component 15 days of paid military leave a year plus travel time, carrying over to as many as 30, and up to 30 working days paid when called up for an emergency, on top of vacation (Personnel Policy section 4.9, effective September 16, 2025).
Greene County employee in the Guard or a reserve component. Membership and orders; no rating is needed.
Five points for a veteran and ten for a veteran disabled in service, added to a passing competitive examination score on initial employment, with a statutory tiebreaker that gives the first offer to the preference holder.
Ten points needs a service-connected disability, not a percentage. 4 GCA § 4104(a)(2) gives ten points to veterans disabled as a result of their service in the Armed Forces or the Combat Patrol. The statute names no percentage, so any service-connected disability reaches it and a rating filter never hides this benefit; the five-point category needs no disability at all.
A mandatory award, not a bid credit. If a service-disabled veteran owned business offers the supply or service on time at no more than 105 percent of the lowest price, the government of Guam shall buy from it.
A service-connected disability with a VA award letter, no percentage stated. 5 GCA § 5012(c) requires the owner to be a service-disabled veteran whose disability is service-connected as demonstrated by a DD214 and certified by an award letter from VA. The statute names no minimum percentage, so a rating filter never hides this benefit.
Free academic credit for military training at the University of Guam and Guam Community College, with no limit and no fee, plus registration protections for veterans called to active duty and a health navigator programme.
Enrolled and in good standing is the whole test for the credit. 10 GCA § 67203(c)(1)(A) reaches every veteran enrolled full-time or part-time in good standing at an institution in the local university or community college system. No rating, residency or era test appears in the subsection.
A tuition exemption at the University of Guam and Guam Community College: ninety undergraduate credit hours for life, thirty graduate, transferable to a spouse or child, last money in after every federal benefit. The August 2026 budget law rewrote it and restarted implementation, so no exemption is being processed until each college adopts rules.
No rating requirement. The Act turns on residency, home of record, discharge character and academic standing. No disability percentage appears anywhere in Chapter 56.
Unincorporated Gwinnett exempts one business majority-owned by a disabled veteran, or a disabled veteran practitioner, from its occupation tax and administrative fee. The county's ordinance asks only for a VA certificate of a lasting disability, 10% for wartime service or 25% for peacetime, and leaves out the State's income test.
VA disability of 10% (wartime) or 25% (peacetime). The county needs a VA certificate of at least 10% for wartime service or 25% for peacetime, likely permanent. The filter tests the 10% floor only.
When Haines Borough applicants are otherwise equally qualified, veterans as state law defines them are preferred for employment, after the borough’s own employees and its residents.
Veterans as state law defines them, between equally qualified applicants. The preference turns on veteran status, not a rating, so the rating filter never hides this benefit.
Five percent added to a county examination score for an eligible veteran, and 10% for a veteran with a service-connected disability or a Purple Heart, the spouse of a veteran VA finds unemployable, or the unmarried surviving spouse of a veteran who died of a service-connected disability. Military retirees on a pension are excluded.
Eligible veteran. Any service-connected rating raises the credit from 5% to 10%. A retiree on a military pension gets no credit. The rating filter does not hide this entry.
Five preference points on an open competitive state recruitment with a DD-214, and ten points with a VA letter dated within the past twelve months confirming qualification for the higher preference.
Honorable service for 5 points, a current VA letter for 10. Five points require a DD-214 verifying honorable service. Ten points require a VA or armed service letter dated within the past twelve months confirming qualification for ten-point preference, which rests on a compensable disability, a Purple Heart, or derived preference. No minimum rating percentage is named, so the rating filter never hides this benefit.
Up to 100% of tuition at a public community college and 50% at a public university for a Hawaii National Guard member. Restricted to enlisted members E-5 and below and officers O-3 and below.
Hawaii National Guard membership at E-5 and below or O-3 and below. The gates are membership in the Hawaii National Guard, Hawaii residency, enrollment in a degree program, and a grade of E-5 or below for enlisted members or O-3 or below for officers. No disability rating is involved, so the rating filter never hides this benefit.
Resident tuition rates at University of Hawaii campuses for a nonresident veteran, service member, or dependent using VA education benefits, without waiting out the usual residency period.
Use of VA education benefits. The gate is use of VA education benefits, including the Fry Scholarship and transferred benefits, by a veteran, service member, or dependent. No disability rating is required, so the rating filter never hides this benefit.
Hennepin County applies the Minnesota Veterans Preference Act to its own hiring and goes further: a confirmed preference applicant who makes the eligibility list is invited to the first round of interviews. Attach the DD-214, and the VA letter for disabled veteran points, once; the points then follow every application.
A veteran under 197.447, or a qualifying spouse. A veteran as defined in 197.447, or the spouse of a deceased or disabled veteran. A compensable rating, 10 percent or more, raises the open-examination points; no rating is needed for the preference itself.
Henry County's 1981 ordinance offers a free business license only to a veteran drawing a 100% permanent disability pension who solely owns the business. The State statute, which a county cannot narrow, exempts a disabled veteran rated 10% for wartime service or 25% for peacetime.
Disabled veteran holding the State certificate. The county code says 100% permanent; the State statute, which governs, takes 10% for wartime service or 25% for peacetime. The filter does not hide this benefit.
Henry County's employee handbook (effective April 1, 2024) gives military service leave to full-time, part-time and introductory employees under USERRA and State law, and the county tops up an employee's base military pay to no more than the regular county pay for up to six months of military leave, beyond the paid leave RSMo 105.270 requires.
Henry County employee called to service. For full-time, part-time and introductory county employees on military service leave. No rating is needed.
The Hillsborough County Tax Collector exempts an honorably discharged veteran, a spouse or unremarried surviving spouse, and a military spouse moved by PCS orders from the business tax receipt fee, as section 205.055 requires. The County Code still prints the repealed rule: a disabled wartime veteran, $50.
Honorable discharge, or a listed spouse. An honorably discharged veteran, a spouse or unremarried surviving spouse, or a PCS military spouse. No rating is needed.
A preference on county eligibility lists for a veteran with a compensable VA rating of 30% or more, ranked above the preference for other applicants with disabilities. A veteran without that rating gets no preference.
At least 30% service-connected. The preference needs a compensable VA service-connected rating of 30% or more.
The Idaho National Guard's State Education Assistance Program reimburses tuition and fees at Idaho higher education and vocational schools for Guard members; the Legislature cut its fiscal 2027 money and restored $190,800 on March 6, 2026, and the Military Division publishes no award amounts, so ask the Guard's education office.
Idaho National Guard membership. The gate is membership in the Idaho National Guard; the award rules and amounts are the Guard education office's and depend on each year's appropriation. No disability rating is involved, so the rating filter never hides this benefit.
Operation Education at the University of Idaho is an individualized scholarship for veterans who sustained a permanent disability while serving since September 11, 2001, and in some cases their dependents, covering tuition, books and fees, campus housing, transportation, medical help, childcare, adaptive equipment, mentoring and tutoring; contact 208-885-6229.
A permanent service-connected disability from post-9/11 service. The program is for veterans who sustained a permanent disability in service since September 11, 2001, and in some cases their dependents. The test is a permanent disability rather than a specific combined rating percentage.
Idaho Code 33-3717B makes resident students of a service member who entered service as an Idaho resident, one stationed in Idaho, an Idaho National Guard member, their supported children, and a veteran separated under honorable conditions after two years who makes Idaho home and enrolls within a year of separation or moves to Idaho to establish domicile.
Entry from Idaho, a station in Idaho, Guard membership, or two years of service and Idaho domicile. The paths are entering service as an Idaho resident, being stationed in Idaho, serving in the Idaho National Guard, or having separated under honorable conditions after two years and making Idaho home (enrolling within a year of separation, or moving to Idaho to establish domicile). No disability rating is required, so the rating filter never hides this benefit.
In a first appointment with the State, a county or a city, a veteran with 90 days of continuous active duty separated under honorable conditions is preferred over applicants who are not more qualified; on a scored examination that is 5 points, 10 at a rating of 10% or more, and at 30% an offered interview while on the register.
10% for ten points, 30% for an offered interview. A service-connected disability rated 10 percent or more raises the preference from five points to ten (Idaho Code 65-504(2)(b)). At 30 percent or more, a veteran on the register for the position is offered an interview, up to ten interviews in all (65-504(2)(c)).
Tuition and certain fees at Illinois public universities and community colleges for a member of the Illinois National Guard or Naval Militia with at least one year of service, while a member: up to four years of full-time enrollment, and two more after more than ten years in the Guard.
Current service in the Illinois National Guard. The gate is membership in the Illinois National Guard, with the duration of the benefit scaling at ten years of service. No disability rating is involved, so the rating filter never hides this benefit.
Pays tuition and mandatory fees at every Illinois public college, university, and community college, with no cap on the amount and no disability requirement. One year of federal active duty and an Illinois connection are the tests.
One year of federal active duty and an Illinois connection. The gates are at least one year of federal active duty service, or service during hostilities, an honorable discharge, and one of three Illinois residency paths. No disability rating is required, so the rating filter never hides this benefit.
Certification by the Commission on Equity and Inclusion and the Department of Veterans' Affairs that counts an Illinois veteran-owned small business toward the State's goal of at least 3% of contract dollars: 51% owned and controlled by veterans living in Illinois, a home office in Illinois and gross sales under $150 million; the service-disabled category needs a 10% rating.
51% ownership and control by veterans living in Illinois, an Illinois home office and gross sales under $150 million. The gates are at least 51 percent ownership and real, continuing control by one or more qualified veterans living in Illinois, a home office in Illinois and gross sales under $150 million. No rating is needed for the veteran-owned category, so the rating filter never hides this benefit; the service-disabled category needs a 10% rating.
Points added to a passing state employment score: 3 for six months of service, 5 for service during hostilities, and 10 for a service-connected disability, a Purple Heart, or being the spouse or parent of a deceased or disabled veteran.
Six months of service for 3 points, hostilities for 5, a rating or Purple Heart for 10. The ten-point tier requires a service-connected disability rating or a Purple Heart, without naming a minimum percentage, and also covers the spouse or parent of a veteran who died of or is disabled by a service-connected condition. The lower tiers test only length and period of service, so the rating filter never hides this benefit.
In unincorporated Imperial County a veteran with an honorable discharge or release under honorable conditions gets a county business license without the $250 license fee or the $25 processing fee (County Code 5.01.070 and 5.01.060), on a DD-214, except a license to sell liquor; the Treasurer-Tax Collector issues it.
Veterans under Business and Professions Code 16102. An honorable discharge or release under honorable conditions, shown on a DD-214 or similar form. No rating is needed; the license must still be applied for.
The District’s only public university must charge the resident rate to a veteran with 90 days of service and to GI Bill family users living in the District, with no waiting period and, since August 2021, no three-year window. UDC’s own posted policy is the 2015 version, and a District scholarship fund for post-9/11 veterans exists only on paper.
Living in the District and using chapter 30, 31, 33 or 35, or chapter 1606 from August 1, 2026. 38 U.S.C. 3679(c), as amended by Pub. L. 119-55.
A veteran with an acceptable discharge gets a free county licence to vend, hawk and peddle goods, and in Marion County municipalities a free transient merchant licence. Local rules still apply.
A veteran who left an Indiana high school to serve in World War I, World War II, Korea or Vietnam may receive a diploma, including posthumously at a surviving relative's request. The program moved to a new chapter of the Code on July 1, 2026, and the new section cites a repealed one.
Service in World War I, World War II, Korea or Vietnam. IC 20-20.5-5-3(1).
Public employees who are Guard or reserve members get 15 days of paid military leave a year. Private employers must release reservists for up to 15 days of training and restore them, and employers with 50 or more workers must give a family member of someone ordered to active duty up to 10 days of unpaid leave. Guard members on long state active duty get the federal SCRA protections.
An Indiana Guard member in active drilling status with no AWOL in the past year gets full undergraduate tuition at an Indiana public college, usable for graduate study, or up to $5,000 a year at a private college or an approved credential program, for up to six academic years. A member called to active duty mid-degree can extend it after leaving.
Active drilling status and no AWOL in 12 months. IC 21-13-1-4(1).
Indiana licensing boards must license a service member whose military training is equivalent, and a military spouse or dependent licensed for a year elsewhere, and must give a spouse or dependent of someone assigned to Indiana a provisional licence within 30 days. Local governments waive their initial licence fees for veterans, service members and their spouses.
On military orders, federal law treats the existing licence as valid. 50 U.S.C. § 4025a, as amended by Pub. L. 118-159: a service member or spouse who relocates on military orders with a licence in good standing may practise within its scope on application, with a temporary licence if the board needs more than 30 days. Veterans and other dependents rely on IC 25-1-17.
Indiana makes it an unlawful employment practice to refuse to hire someone because he or she is a veteran, a Guard member or a reservist, and lets private employers adopt a written veterans preference policy for hiring, promotion and layoffs.
An honorably discharged veteran, and his or her spouse or children, pay in-state tuition at Indiana public colleges if they enrol within 12 months of discharge and show Indiana ties within a year. Veterans in neighbouring states using the GI Bill get in-state rates within three years of discharge, and nonresident Indiana Guard members pay in-state rates while serving.
Honorable discharge. IC 21-14-12.2-2(2).
Children of Indiana veterans with any service-connected disability from wartime or campaign-medal service get up to 124 credit hours of tuition and fees at Indiana public colleges, or up to $5,000 a year at private ones. If the parent first served after June 30, 2011, the exemption is 20 percent plus the parent's rating, and full only at 80 percent. The child must first apply by age 32.
Full exemption for a post-June 30, 2011 enlistee at 80 percent. IC 21-14-4-2.5(c). Below 80 percent the exemption is 20 percent plus the rating. The parent's rating is what counts.
Indiana aims to award at least 3 percent of state contracts to Indiana veteran owned small businesses and gives them a 15 percent price preference on supplies bought by governmental bodies.
State agencies must interview veterans in the qualified pool, give them a hiring preference and count military time toward layoff seniority. Counties, cities and other local governments add 10 percent to a veteran's exam score after 181 days of service. Since July 1, 2026 neither requires the service to have been on active duty.
181 days of service for local government points. IC 5-9-3-2(b)(1), no longer limited to active duty.
Indiana law requires police and fire departments to prefer a war veteran with any discharge not barred by IC 10-17-12-8.1. The Indianapolis police ordinance narrows that to an honorable discharge; the fire ordinance asks for an honorable discharge but drops the war requirement.
War veteran, discharge not barred. The statute prefers a war veteran with any discharge except the barred kinds; the city ordinances ask for honorable. No rating is needed.
A city or county employee in the Guard or reserves ordered to full-time active duty for more than 30 days gets the difference between military and civilian pay each week, dependent health coverage at no cost, continued PERF contributions and one or two extra weeks of vacation, beyond the 15 paid days Indiana law gives.
City or county employee activated over 30 days. Guard or reserve members on full-time active duty by State or federal order for more than 30 days. No rating is needed.
The city-county aims to spend at least 3% of its public works and purchasing with certified veteran-owned businesses, and contractors must make a good-faith effort to reach the goal. Certification is through the Office of Minority and Women Business Development, online since April 1, 2026.
Certified veteran-owned business. The business must be certified as a VBE. No rating is needed.
The consolidated city-county's human rights ordinance forbids discrimination because of military service veteran status in employment by employers of six or more, housing, public accommodations and education. Complaints go to the Office of Equal Opportunity within 180 days.
Any veteran. Veteran status is protected without regard to discharge or rating. No rating is needed.
District public and charter schools must ease enrolment, placement and graduation for children of active duty members, including mobilized Guard and reserve members, and for a year after a parent is medically discharged or dies on duty. Children of veterans and retirees are otherwise not covered.
Child of an active duty member, or for one year after medical discharge or death on duty. D.C. Code 49-1101.04.
Every Iowa licensing board must expedite an application from a veteran or from the spouse of an active duty member who holds a similar licence in another state, and must issue a temporary licence where the scope of practice is not substantially similar so the applicant can practise while completing the gap. Boards must also give credit for military education, training and service.
A veteran qualifies directly, not only a military spouse. Iowa Code § 272C.12A(1) covers a person "who is married to an active duty member of the military forces of the United States or is a veteran, as defined in section 35.1".
Iowa public school is tuition free to a resident veteran past the usual age-21 cutoff, for as many months after turning twenty-one as the veteran spent in the armed forces before turning twenty-one. Almost nobody knows this provision exists.
The extension equals your months of service before age twenty-one. Iowa Code § 282.6(2). Service after the twenty-first birthday does not lengthen the window.