Madera County's classified-service rules give veterans a preference credit in open competitive examinations once the passing score is reached: the County Code sets five percent of the credits earned, with an additional five percent for honorably discharged veterans with service-connected disabilities, and the Civil Service Rules in force state the credit as five points, ten if disabled, with no credit in promotional examinations.
Veteran status proven with the application. The ordinance follows Government Code 18973; the rules keep their own definition and add the ten-point credit for a veteran rated at least 10 percent disabled and drawing compensation.
Madison County's Department of Human Resources, 138 North Court Street, Wampsville (315-366-2341), adds the State's veterans' credits to passing scores on county and local civil service exams: 5 points (2.5 on promotion) for a veteran and 10 (5) for a veteran rated 10% or more. Apply on its form before the eligible list is set; the form still asks for a wartime disability, which the law no longer does.
A rating of 10% or more doubles the credits. Civil Service Law 85: 5 points (2.5 on promotion) for a veteran; 10 points (5 on promotion) for a veteran rated 10 percent or more. Used once.
Full tuition at a Maine college or university for a member of the Maine National Guard, up to 130 credits toward a bachelor’s, associate, certificate or licence, with a one-year service obligation after the assistance.
Serving membership in the Maine National Guard. The programme is for serving members of the Maine National Guard in good standing. Nine or more unexcused training absences or failure to complete annual training make a member ineligible. No rating is involved, so the rating filter never hides this benefit.
A qualified veteran who applies for a Maine state job is guaranteed an interview, and the Bureau of Human Resources helps a veteran who is not hired find other openings. State employees receive 17 paid workdays of military leave a year.
A qualified veteran is interviewed. The preference is a guaranteed interview for a veteran who meets the posted qualifications, not points added to a score. No disability rating changes the preference, so the rating filter never hides this benefit.
Free tuition and mandatory fees at Maine public colleges for the spouse and children of a veteran who is totally and permanently disabled from service, was killed in action, or died of a service-connected disability. The spouse and child rules differ and the difference matters.
Total permanent service-connected disability, death, or MIA or POW status. The veteran must have a total permanent disability resulting from a service-connected disability, have been killed in action, have died from a service-connected disability, have been totally and permanently disabled from service-connected disability at the time of an unrelated death, or have been listed as missing in action or a prisoner of war for ninety days or more. The rating filter never hides this benefit because the gate is a status rather than a percentage.
Up to $20,000 a year of tuition and $500 of fees for current members of the District’s Guard, paid directly to the school for one degree at each level. It is funded by Congress each year, $600,000 for fiscal 2026, and the program now asks for two years of remaining service where the Army benefits library says one.
Current District Guard member with two years of service remaining after the course. Program site; the Army benefits library says one year.
Preference points under ARS 38-492 for county jobs, including for a veteran's spouse or surviving spouse. The Sheriff's Office law enforcement merit rules give 5 and 10 points on entrance examinations but state the 10-point test more narrowly than the statute.
10 points with a service-connected disability. Five points need no rating. Ten points need a service-connected disability under the statute; the Sheriff's rule also asks that the veteran be receiving compensation.
Tuition and mandatory fees at a Maryland college for a veteran rated at least 25% service-connected who has used up federal education benefits, and for a child or unremarried spouse of a member who died from service or has a 100% permanent service-connected disability.
At least 25% for the veteran applicant. A veteran applying personally qualifies at a service-connected rating of 25% or more, after federal education benefits are exhausted or no longer available. A child or unremarried spouse of a member who died from service, or who has a 100% permanent service-connected disability, is a separate path.
Ten points on a state selection test for an honorably discharged veteran. Two more points for a former prisoner of war. A separate noncompetitive appointment is open at a compensable service-connected rating of at least 30%.
Noncompetitive appointment at 30%. The 10-point test credit does not require a disability rating. The separate noncompetitive appointment requires a compensable service-connected rating of at least 30%, or a place on an armed forces permanent disability list at 30% or more. The rating filter does not hide the 10-point credit.
Every public institution must have a written policy for evaluating military training for academic credit and a single named point of contact. And no student at any Massachusetts institution, public or private, may be penalised for being called to active duty.
A veteran under clause Forty-third for the credit evaluation and point of contact. Section 42 names the clause Forty-third definition: 90 days of active service including a day of wartime service, or 180 days without it, excluding active duty for training.
Not points. Disabled veterans go at the top of the eligible list, then veterans, then the spouse or single parent of a servicemember killed in action, then everyone else. Some decorations get an appointment with no examination at all.
Ten per cent based on wartime service for the top tier. Section 1 defines disabled veteran as having a continuing service-incurred disability of not less than ten per cent based on wartime service with VA compensation, or a permanent physical disability carrying a branch retirement allowance, or a statutory award. A veteran without that is still in the second tier, so this entry does not disappear below the number.
Every Massachusetts employer with more than 50 full-time employees must post a veterans’ benefits notice and hand it to every employee at hire and once a year. It is aimed at veterans who do not know they are veterans.
The duty falls on employers with more than 50 full-time employees. Section 2E(c). Smaller employers have no obligation, though the notice is available from the Executive Office of Veterans Services to anyone who asks.
The one Massachusetts education waiver the statute makes mandatory and the commonwealth pays for. It covers fees as well as tuition, which in Massachusetts public higher education is the larger half of the bill.
A member of the Massachusetts National Guard. Section 19 names the Massachusetts National Guard specifically. A Massachusetts resident in another state’s Guard or in a federal reserve component is outside it.
Veterans are one of the categories the Board of Higher Education must cover in the state tuition waiver programme, but the statute sets no amount and no eligibility rules. Those live in council guidelines, which is where a reader has to go.
Veterans are a category the council may designate, not a statutory entitlement. Section 19 requires the guidelines to provide waivers for categories designated by the council, which may include veterans. The terms are set administratively and can change without legislation.
A $2,500 credit per qualified veteran hired, for a small Massachusetts employer certified by the Secretary of Veterans’ Services. It is the employer who claims it, and knowing it exists is worth something to a job seeker.
A qualified veteran under section 51(d)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code. The federal Work Opportunity Tax Credit definition, built around unemployment duration, receipt of assistance and service-connected disability. It has nothing to do with the Massachusetts definitions of veteran.
The Borough adds five points to a veteran’s passing merit-exam grade and ten to a disabled veteran’s (rated at least 10 percent by the VA), and prefers the veteran when qualifications are equal. Only service in the world wars, Korea or the Vietnam era (to November 7, 1975) counts.
Veterans of the listed service periods; ten points at a 10 percent VA rating. The preference turns on 90 days of service in one of four periods between 1917 and 1975 and an honorable discharge; the ten-point step needs a 10 percent rating, which the rating filter does not test, so it never hides this benefit.
A Mecklenburg County programme that recruits and trains veterans with building safety or construction experience for jobs as county code officials, run by Veterans Services, Code Enforcement and Human Resources with Central Piedmont Community College.
Veteran with building safety or construction experience. No rating test is published.
In unincorporated Mendocino County a veteran with an honorable discharge or release under honorable conditions gets the county business licence without the licence fee, on a DD-214 (County Code 6.04.090(a) and 6.04.070), except to sell liquor; Environmental Health likewise waives the temporary food booth permit fee for veteran-exempt vendors not selling alcohol.
Veterans under Business and Professions Code 16102. An honorable discharge or release under honorable conditions, shown on a DD-214. No rating is needed; the licence or permit must still be applied for.
Mendocino County adds five percent of the passing score to a veteran's result in an open civil service examination, and another five percent for a service-connected disability (County Code 3.16.120(H) and Civil Service Rules IV and VI, adopted March 18, 2026); the veteran submits the discharge with the application.
Honorable service shown with the application. Five percent for honorable service; another five percent with a service-connected disability rating. Open examinations only.
Metro Nashville's Civil Service Rules guarantee an interview to every honorably discharged veteran on an open competitive register, down to the person selected. There are no points. Send the DD-214 showing the service and the type of discharge.
Honorable discharge. Civil Service Rule 2.8 reaches veterans with an honorable discharge on open competitive registers, on a DD-214 showing service and type of discharge.
A Miami-Dade County or Public Health Trust employee with a VA service-connected rating gets up to 24 hours a year of paid leave for VA examinations and treatment of the disability, prorated for part-time staff.
County or Public Health Trust employee with a service-connected rating. Any VA service-connected rating and a scheduled VA examination or treatment. Unionised staff only if their agreement provides it.
A local Miami-Dade business certified by the State as a veteran business enterprise gets a 5% bid preference on county contracts and 5% more of the technical points on proposals, unless it takes small business preferences instead.
State-certified veteran business that is local to Miami-Dade. A local business at least 51% owned and run by wartime or service-disabled veterans and certified by the State. No rating is needed for wartime veterans.
A school district may award a diploma to a veteran of the Second World War, Korea or Vietnam who was enrolled in that district and left before graduating. The district chooses whether to do it.
Enlisted or drafted before graduating, in one of three windows. December 16, 1940 to December 31, 1946; June 27, 1950 to January 31, 1955; or February 28, 1961 to May 7, 1975. Service falling only between February 1955 and February 1961 does not qualify.
State law that covers governor-ordered state active duty, which USERRA does not, reaches service in any state’s National Guard, and awards reinstatement and attorney fees in circuit court.
Every employer, and state active duty is covered. The act binds public and private employers. It covers active state service ordered by the governor in support of civil authorities, which USERRA does not, and service in any other state’s National Guard.
Up to $14,400 toward an associate or bachelor degree and $6,000 toward a master degree, certificate or trade program, at any Michigan school. Since 2023 a member can hand the benefit to a spouse or a child.
A Michigan Guard member in active service and in good standing. The member must be in active service, which includes traditional drill and annual training, must not be absent without leave or under Michigan Code of Military Justice charges, and must meet the adjutant general’s recruiting and retention criteria.
From July 2026, a full-time firefighter or law enforcement officer in the reserve components gets at least 26 days of paid military leave a year at full pay. Use it or lose it, and no cash-out.
Full-time fire or law enforcement, in the reserve components. A qualified member is a full-time member of an organized fire department or a law enforcement agency who is enlisted in the reserve components. Part-time, volunteer and paid on-call members are expressly excluded.
A private employer of any size may adopt a veterans preference for hiring, promotion or retention in a layoff. It has to be written down and applied uniformly, and the veteran definition needs 180 days or a service-connected disability.
180 days of active duty, or a service-connected disability. The veteran must be a veteran under 35.61 and have served at least 180 days of active duty or have a service-connected disability from that service. This is narrower than 35.61 alone.
A Michigan professional or occupational license held at the time of entering service stays in full force without any further action until discharge, and the act overrides anything to the contrary.
Licensed or registered before entering service. The license or the registration toward a license must have been held at the time of induction or entering the service. Someone not yet licensed or registered is outside the act.
A separate act for public employees: restoration to the old position, a year of protection against discharge without cause, employer pension contributions for the period away, and the attorney general as free counsel.
Public employment, classified or unclassified. State, county, municipal and other political subdivision employment, including departments, agencies and instrumentalities. Temporary or casual employment, elective office and fixed-term appointed office are excluded.
A veteran in a Michigan public job can be removed, suspended or transferred only on six enumerated grounds, after 15 days written notice and a hearing before a named official, with back pay on reinstatement.
Six enumerated grounds and nothing else. Official misconduct; habitual, serious or wilful neglect of duty; extortion; conviction of intoxication; conviction of a felony; or incompetency.
A county clerk must issue a resident veteran a free one-year license to sell their own goods for personal gain. The signage rules are strict and a false claim of charity draws a $1,000 civil fine.
180 days or a service-connected disability, honorably discharged, resident. A veteran under 35.61 who served at least 180 days of active service or has a service-connected disability from that service, was honorably discharged, and is a Michigan resident.
Since April 2025 every Michigan employer with one or more full-time employees must post a veterans resource notice listing nine specific items, including the crisis line. The state supplies the poster free.
Every employer with one or more full-time employees. An employer means any person or entity that employs one or more full-time employees. There is no size threshold and no requirement that the employer have veteran employees.
A veteran shall be preferred for appointment and employment in every public department and on every public work of the state, its counties and its municipal corporations. Since 2019 military experience must also count toward setting the wage.
A veteran under 35.61 who was honorably discharged. Section 35.401(2) requires both limbs. The honorable discharge requirement is stricter than the "other than dishonorable" standard that 35.61 applies generally.
District government employees in the Guard or reserves get 15 days of paid military leave a year, 22 workdays for civil aid or contingency duty, unlimited leave for District Guard parades and encampments, and a pay differential when called up for a contingency operation. The federal increase to 20 days in 2024 does not reach them.
District government employee in the Guard or a reserve component. D.C. Code 1-612.03(m), (m-1) and (m-2); 1-611.03(a)(7).
Active duty counts toward the service tiers that set your leave accrual rate. Military retirees are excluded unless one of three exceptions applies, and the campaign badge exception is the one that reaches most modern retirees.
A campaign badge restores a retiree’s full active duty credit. Code 7.1203(b)(3) counts service performed in the armed forces during any war, or in any campaign or expedition for which a campaign badge has been authorized. Campaign and expeditionary medals for named operations qualify. This is the exception most military retirees in American Samoa will meet and the one most summaries omit.
The same $15,000 lifetime pot also pays $3,000 a year for apprenticeship or on-the-job training and $3,000 a year for licence and certification tests, plus $1,000 job-placement credits paid to the employer at six and twelve months.
The same eligibility list as the education benefit. Subdivision 6, paragraph (c) and subdivision 7, paragraph (b) repeat the veteran, five-year Guard or reserve, deceased-parent and totally disabled-parent routes from subdivision 4.
$5,000 a year and $15,000 in a lifetime, but it is a last-dollar benefit: Pell, the state grant and every federal military education benefit are subtracted from cost of attendance first, and awards are made on a funds-available basis.
A veteran, or a campaign medal, or 90 days in a foreign country during hostilities. Subdivision 1, paragraph (h) extends the section 197.447 definition to a service member honorably discharged from each period of federal active duty who served 90 days or more of federal active duty in a foreign country during hostilities, or holds a listed campaign medal, or took a service-related medical discharge from such service. A person who meets that test while still serving is included.
A 2026 statute requiring a school district or charter school to issue a high school diploma on request to a Korean Conflict or Vietnam War veteran who never finished, for reasons related or unrelated to service. A family may request one posthumously.
Service during the Korean Conflict or the Vietnam War. Korean Conflict from June 27, 1950 to January 31, 1955; Vietnam War in country from November 1, 1955 to May 7, 1975, or outside the country from August 5, 1964 to May 7, 1975.
Resident tuition for any veteran at a state college or university with no residency waiting period, mandatory ACE credit for military training at Minnesota State, and a bar on late fees or registration holds while GI Bill money is in transit.
Any veteran, including a person currently in active service. Subdivision 1, paragraph (d) defines veteran for this section as the section 197.447 definition plus any person serving in active service as defined in section 190.05, subdivision 5.
Up to 100 percent of University of Minnesota resident tuition, capped at 144 semester credits for life, with an eight-year extension after a service-connected separation and a spouse share after eight years of service. The dollar schedule is set by the adjutant general, not by statute.
Serving satisfactorily in the Minnesota National Guard. Subdivision 2, paragraph (b): serving satisfactorily as defined by the adjutant general, attending a qualifying postsecondary institution, and providing proof of satisfactory completion of coursework. Reimbursement follows completion.
A private employer may prefer a veteran in hiring and promotion without breaching state or local equal employment law, and every professional licensing board must run an expedited and a temporary licensing route for service members, their spouses, and veterans within two years of leaving.
A private employer may prefer a veteran, and is protected in doing so. Section 197.4551, subdivisions 1 and 3: a private, nonpublic employer may grant preference in hiring and promotion, and doing so does not violate any local or state equal employment opportunity law, including chapter 363A. The section confers no right the veteran can enforce.
Up to a 12 percent preference on state procurement, with a statutory floor that it can never be less than any other preference group, plus direct award without competition up to $100,000 and veteran-only set-asides.
Majority-owned and operated by a veteran under section 197.447. Subdivision 6a, paragraphs (a) and (f). The commissioner of veterans affairs must verify the owner’s veteran status before the commissioner of administration certifies the business. No service-connected disability is required.
A veteran in public employment cannot be removed except for incompetency or misconduct shown at a hearing. The veteran picks the hearing body, the employer pays for it, the veteran gets attorney fees on winning, and the commissioner of veterans affairs can subpoena the employer and bill it for the proceeding.
A veteran separated from military service under honorable conditions. Section 197.46, paragraph (a). The protection attaches after any initial hiring probationary period expires.
10 points on a competitive open examination, 15 for a disabled veteran, and 5 on a first promotional examination. It governs counties, cities, towns and school districts, not State of Minnesota jobs, and the 50 percent test applies only to the promotional credit.
A veteran as defined in section 197.447. Subdivision 2 makes the preference available to a veteran as defined in section 197.447, which requires 181 consecutive days of active duty or one of the alternative routes in that section.
State jobs do not use points. Disabled veterans are listed ahead of everyone in the applicant pool, other veterans ahead of nonveterans, and the top five recently separated veterans must be interviewed. The points subdivisions were repealed in 2004.
A veteran as defined in section 197.447, claiming the preference. Subdivision 1 makes the preference available to a veteran as defined in section 197.447, and subdivision 8 requires the state to notify applicants that they may elect to use it. It must be claimed.
A local school board may award an honorary high school diploma to a veteran who left school to serve, on two specific timelines tied to 1941 to 1955 and 1963 to 1973. Families may apply posthumously.
Scheduled to graduate 1941 to 1955 and inducted before completing requirements. The first path covers an honorably discharged veteran residing in Mississippi who was scheduled to graduate between 1941 and 1955 and was inducted into military service before completing graduation requirements. No rating is involved, so the rating filter never hides this benefit.
Any veteran under Title 38, or anyone entitled to Title 38 education benefits including a transferee, pays in-state tuition in Mississippi. Stationed servicemembers and their families are classified as residents.
A Title 38 veteran, or anyone entitled to Title 38 education benefits. Eligibility reaches any veteran as defined by Title 38 of the United States Code and any person entitled to education benefits under Title 38, which includes a spouse or child using transferred entitlement. No disability rating and no Mississippi residence are required, so the rating filter never hides this benefit.
Up to $10,000 a state fiscal year at a Mississippi college or university, or $5,000 at a community college, for an actively serving Guard member. One condition is unusual: you must be a registered Mississippi voter.
Registered voter in the State of Mississippi. The member must be a registered Mississippi voter. This is a stated program condition, not an inference from residency, and it is the most unusual eligibility rule in this catalog. No disability rating is involved, so the rating filter never hides this benefit.