Free rides to any VA medical facility within 50 miles of Delaware County and to VA referrals outside VA facilities, booked three business days ahead on 740-833-2012, with overflow and bus passes from Delaware County Transit, and on extended scheduling, non-VA appointments and SourcePoint trips.
A county veteran with no other way to get there. A Delaware County veteran with no other transportation, or unable to drive for medical reasons, booked 72 hours ahead. VA facilities within 50 miles, VA referrals outside VA facilities, and on extended scheduling non-VA appointments. No rating is needed.
Every Delaware police agency must run a Green Alert, like an Amber or Gold Alert, for a missing veteran or service member with a service-related physical or mental health condition whose disappearance threatens their safety. Any service counts, with no discharge test.
A 144-bed state veterans nursing home in Milford for veterans with 181 days of active service or a Guard or reserve retirement, and now Gold Star family members, who have lived in Delaware for a year and need long-term care. A veteran rated 70 percent or more pays nothing according to the Home, though its own August 2026 application prints a daily cost for them too.
181 days of active service, or a Guard or reserve retirement, or a Gold Star family member. Delaware Veterans Home long-term care admissions application, August 2026.
A court track that diverts veterans and reservists charged with crimes into VA treatment with regular court check-ins instead of the ordinary sentence. It accepts other than honorable discharges.
Honorable and other than honorable discharges accepted. Office of Veterans Services, Delaware’s Veteran Treatment Court.
Free rides for District veterans with low income or recent unemployment. The Code describes 15 one-way trips a month, six days a week, anywhere in the District for a household at 80 percent of area median income; the programme actually funded offers eight one-way trips a month to approved destinations for a veteran under $45,000.
Income under $45,000 or recently unemployed, as run; 80 percent of area median income in the Code. Department of For-Hire Vehicles VetsRide page; D.C. Code 49-1003(26), subject to the availability of funding.
The Douglas County Veterans Van Service was discontinued effective January 1, 2019; the county's Transportation page now routes veterans to the DAV Transportation Services ride to and from the Minneapolis VA Hospital, picking up and dropping off Monday to Friday at the Twin Ports Outpatient Clinic parking lot, 3520 Tower Ave., Superior, on the DAV's transportation number 715-398-2406.
Douglas County veteran with a VA appointment. The DAV ride runs on VA-facility appointments for veterans; no rating is needed to book. The rating filter never hides this entry.
Dutchess County's Office of Veterans Affairs gives registered veterans two free rides a month to medical appointments, VA or local, and one free ride a month to a grocery store, pharmacy or personal visit, through GoGo Veterans wherever Uber or Lyft operate in the county; Dutchess County Public Transit charges veterans the reduced fare, $0.75 a ride and $1.00 on Dial-A-Ride.
A veteran living in Dutchess County, registered with the office. Free rides need registration with the Office of Veterans Affairs; the reduced fare needs identification showing veteran status. No rating is needed.
Duval County's Veterans Service Office runs a veterans van with a contract driver, paid for in part by a $35,000 VA grant for the transportation of veterans in highly rural areas (CFDA 64.035) that the Commissioners' Court accepted on November 10, 2025; the county budgets $5,600 for the driver and $1,000 for fuel in 2026-27. Call the office (361-279-6219) for rides.
Duval County veterans needing transportation. The county posts no eligibility rules for the van; ask the Veterans Service Office. No rating is needed.
Erie County's Dwyer peer-to-peer programme offers veterans and their families free, confidential peer support, support groups, social events, short-term care management and referrals for food, housing and benefits, from an office on Niagara Street in Buffalo.
Veterans and families. Free. No rating or discharge test is stated.
The Eureka County Senior Center hosted a veterans evaluation service van on July 24, 2026, and Vitality Unlimited's Operation Recovery - a grant serving veterans, their parents, spouses and children dealing with opioid disorder - reached the county through the Board's chairman, with clinics on third Mondays.
Services come to the county building. The evaluation van and the Operation Recovery clinics are visiting services hosted at the Eureka Senior Center and county buildings; eligibility is the providers. No rating is needed.
Free van rides to VA medical appointments for Fairfield County veterans, booked through the office at least 48 hours ahead and scheduled first come, first served, with the driver a county employee paid by the commission; a rider may not collect VA travel pay.
A county veteran with a booked VA appointment. A Fairfield County veteran requests a ride through the office (740-652-7920) at least 48 hours ahead. No rating is needed.
The one VA facility on the island: a community-based outpatient clinic in Pago Pago running primary care, labs, mental health, and telehealth. Specialty care generally means Honolulu.
Ordinary VA health care enrollment. There is no American Samoa-specific enrollment. Eligibility and priority group are the usual federal rules, and a service-connected rating changes priority and copays rather than opening or closing the door.
The Fifth Judicial District's Veterans Treatment Court meets Tuesdays at 4:30 p.m. at the Twin Falls court facility (Judge Rosemary Emory; coordinator Israel Enriquez, 208-736-4122): a felony probation programme of at least 12 months in four phases, after a guilty plea, for a veteran with 180 consecutive days of active duty, VA health care eligibility and a substance use or mental health diagnosis, with peer mentors and a $100 monthly fee.
Justice-involved veteran. A veteran with 180 consecutive days of active duty, VA health care eligibility, a substance use or mental health diagnosis and a guilty plea; not a bad conduct or dishonorable discharge. A rating is not the test.
The Flathead County Agency on Aging runs the Veteran-Directed Care program in Kalispell, through which a veteran hires and supervises care providers, family members included, and publishes the county's veteran resource list: the MVAD Kalispell office, the Kalispell VA clinic, and rides to the Fort Harrison VA hospital on Tuesdays and Thursdays.
Veterans needing care or a ride. Veteran-Directed Care serves veterans who need daily-living help and choose their own providers; the resources list is open to any county veteran. No rating is required, so the rating filter never hides this benefit.
Eight state nursing homes and the Lake City assisted living home for a Florida veteran who needs that level of care and is approved by VA. A spouse can be admitted on the statutory priority list.
Nursing care, Florida residence, and VA approval. A nursing-home applicant has to need nursing care, be a Florida resident unless a disaster waiver applies, and be approved by VA. Wartime and eligible peacetime service both qualify. A rating percentage is not the test.
Franklin County's Veterans Service Office pays veterans' fares on Franklin County public transportation; the quarterly report to the County Commission counted 74 trips paid for veterans on FC Public Transportation in October-December 2025 ($1,302.50) after 60 in July-September 2025; book through the office at 839 Dinah Shore Boulevard, Winchester, 931-967-9322.
Franklin County veterans. Trips the office pays for; no rating or discharge condition is published.
Rabbittransit runs Franklin County's free veterans shuttle to the Hagerstown VA Clinic and the Martinsburg VA Medical Center from Chambersburg and Greencastle every Wednesday, reserved by 1:30 p.m. the day before on 1-800-632-9063 option 3, on State human services money the county administers.
A Franklin County veteran needing a ride. Funded from State human services money the county administers. No rating is needed.
Preventive dental care paid by the county veterans service commission for an honorably separated veteran, spouse or surviving spouse with household income up to 250% of the federal poverty level and 90 days in Franklin County.
Up to 250% of the poverty level. Household income may not exceed 250% of the current federal poverty guideline for the family size. No rating is needed.
Municipalities and the Commonwealth must supply medical care, hospitalization and medication at no cost to veterans and their families at their own health facilities, on federal Medicaid income criteria, with the deductible waived if you are insured.
No rating requirement. Article 4D turns on veteran status and an economic evaluation, not on a service-connected disability percentage.
Emergency ambulance service is free to all veterans residing in the U.S. Virgin Islands. No rating, no Virgin Islands Veteran test, no application.
No rating requirement and no Virgin Islands Veteran test. The benefit is stated as free emergency ambulance service to all veterans residing in the U.S. Virgin Islands. It is on the office\u2019s broader residence-based list rather than the narrower list for Virgin Islands Veterans.
Fulton County's Veterans Service Agency contracts with the Montgomery County Veterans Service Agency to carry Fulton County veterans to and from the Veterans' Medical Center in Albany at $30.00 each way - Resolution 432 of December 8, 2025, not to exceed $15,000.00 for calendar 2026 - reached through the agency at 518-736-5651.
Fulton County veterans with a VA appointment. Rides to the Albany VA Medical Center at the contract rate; no rating or discharge condition is published.
Genesee County veterans and their spouses can get three free MTA Flint rides a month to doctors, the pharmacy, the grocery store or the farmers market, plus one ride a month out of the county to a VA medical appointment. Enroll through the Department of Veterans Services.
Genesee County veteran or spouse, enrolled. A veteran or spouse enrolled with the Department of Veterans Services. No rating is needed.
Skilled nursing care in Augusta and Milledgeville for a Georgia war veteran who meets the residency and medical rules. VA pays the daily fee in full at a service-connected rating of 70% or higher, or when the admission is for a service-connected condition.
Georgia residence, wartime service, and VA nursing approval. Admission is residency, a listed period of active duty, a discharge under other than dishonorable conditions, and VA approval for skilled nursing. A 70% rating changes who pays the daily fee. It is not the admission test.
The county-owned Grafton County Nursing Home holds a VA contract covering its veteran residents: an April 2026 agreement raised the average veteran rate to $545.17 a day, the FY2027 budget carries $1,591,896 of veteran room-and-board revenue and a $130,000 Veteran RX line "Based on VA Census", and the Executive Committee tracks a veteran payer census of nine falling to eight.
Veteran residents of the county nursing home. The contract covers the nursing home’s veteran residents; admission is by the facility’s own process and a service connection is not the test.
Free door-to-door rides on weekdays to and from the Dayton VA Medical Center for a Greene County veteran with a scheduled appointment, booked at least 48 hours ahead, with other arrangements for veterans who cannot walk to the vehicle.
A county veteran with a Dayton VA appointment. A Greene County veteran with a scheduled Dayton VA appointment, booked 48 hours ahead. No rating is needed.
Guadalupe County Veteran Services arranges rides with volunteer drivers in county vans to VA medical appointments in San Antonio and New Braunfels. Call 830-303-4188, ext. 1249, at least a week ahead.
Veterans with a VA appointment. For veterans going to VA care. No rating is needed.
A full community-based outpatient clinic in Agana Heights, five days a week, plus the only Defense Department inpatient partner in the Pacific territories next door at U.S. Naval Hospital Guam.
Ordinary VA health care enrollment. Eligibility and priority group follow the usual federal rules. There is no Guam-specific application, and a service-connected rating changes priority and copays rather than opening or closing the door.
Free rides, booked ahead, to the Cincinnati VA Medical Center, VA clinics, compensation exams and VA community care appointments for a Hamilton County veteran with no other way to get there, and bus passes. The commission drives about 60 to 80 veterans a month.
A county veteran with no other transport. A Hamilton County veteran with a VA appointment and no other way to get there. No rating is needed.
Hancock County's Veterans Service Office runs free peer and wellness programmes: Battle Buddies (trained veteran peers for PTSD, addiction, grief and transition), a Guitars for Vets chapter (ten free lessons, then a guitar to keep), G.I. Tunes (therapist-built playlists and a free listening device for PTSD) and the faith-based Veterans Discovering New Life group; 419-424-7036.
Any veteran. Open to veterans in Hancock County. No rating is needed.
Hancock County's Veterans Service Office drives veterans in its vans to VA medical appointments in Toledo, Lima, Marion, Columbus, Dayton, Ann Arbor and Fort Wayne; book with the transportation manager on 419-424-7408, preferring morning appointments, and the driver calls by 4 p.m. the day before.
Hancock County veterans. For veterans with VA medical appointments. No rating is needed.
Two state veterans homes: the Yukio Okutsu home in Hilo, and the Daniel K. Akaka home in Kapolei on Oahu, a 120-bed facility that opened in March 2025 after more than fifteen years of work.
Honorable discharge, Hawaii residency, and a clinical need. The gates are an honorable discharge, a Hawaii residency requirement, an age threshold at the Hilo home, and a clinical need the facility can meet. No disability rating is required for admission, so the rating filter never hides this benefit.
A free year of fitness and aquatics center access, up to 15 personal training sessions, and social events from Prince George's Parks and Recreation for a county resident veteran with a service-connected rating of 10% or more.
At least 10% service-connected. The department asks for a service-connected disability of 10% or more, county residence, and an honorable discharge.
Hempstead County's Veterans Service Office runs a van that takes veterans to the VA hospital in Little Rock; in January 2025 the Quorum Court gave $3,000 toward a 2025 Ford van to replace one that had passed 150,000 miles. Book a seat through the office at (870) 359-0181.
Veteran with a VA hospital appointment. No rating or other test is published; ask the office who may ride.
Herkimer County runs a PFC Joseph P. Dwyer Veteran Peer Support Program through its Veterans' Service Agency under a standing memorandum of understanding with the Mental Health Department, renewed July 8, 2026 with $109,732 of State Office of Mental Health money for the year ending June 30, 2027; ask the agency at 315-867-1127.
Herkimer County veterans. A Dwyer peer-support programme asks no character-of-discharge question of those it serves; ask the agency.
Veterans Benefits Live is Hoke County's three-day, single-stop open house where VA and partner representatives help veterans and their families or caregivers one-on-one with benefits, claims, appeals and other concerns; the county's page seeks volunteers for the event.
Veterans, families and caregivers. Open to veterans and their families or caregivers; no rating is needed.
Howard County's Veterans Treatment Court, a certified problem-solving court in Superior Court II under Judge Blake N. Dahl, coordinated by Christine Oyler (765-614-3232), takes veterans and service members with a substance use disorder or a non-psychotic mental health condition related to service through a 12 to 36 month, four-phase programme with VA Veterans Justice Outreach, mentors and a court therapy dog; applicants pay programme fees and are barred by open warrants or prior convictions for rape, child molestation, murder or criminal confinement.
Justice-involved veteran. The court is for a veteran with a pending eligible case who volunteers and is accepted. A disability rating is not the test.
Four state skilled nursing homes, at Boise, Pocatello, Lewiston and Post Falls, for Idaho residents discharged under honorable conditions with at least 90 days of service and a nursing need, and for their spouses; wartime veterans get priority, and applicants must apply for VA pension and Aid and Attendance and for Medicaid or pay the maximum monthly charge.
90 days of service, a discharge under honorable conditions, Idaho residence and a nursing need. The gates are Idaho residence, a discharge under honorable conditions after at least 90 days of service, and a nursing need, with wartime veterans receiving priority and applicants required to apply for VA pension and Aid and Attendance and for Medicaid or pay the maximum charge. No disability rating is required for admission, so the rating filter never hides this benefit.
Five state veterans homes, at Anna, Chicago, LaSalle, Manteno, and Quincy, offering skilled nursing and memory care. Admission is not based on ability to pay, and the monthly contribution is capped at $1,659.
One day of wartime service, or one year in peacetime. The gates are an honorable discharge with at least one day of service during a recognized war period, or service in a hostile fire environment with a campaign or expeditionary medal, or one year of honorable peacetime service. No disability rating is required for admission, so the rating filter never hides this benefit.
Independence County's Veterans Service Office runs a DAV van that takes veterans to the VA hospitals in Little Rock and North Little Rock every Monday and Wednesday, leaving at 7:00 a.m. (holidays excluded); book through the office at 870-793-8812.
Veteran with a VA hospital appointment. The page sets no rating or other test; ask the office who may ride.
Indian River County Parks & Recreation offers a free Veteran's Yoga class with the Veterans Yoga Project, open to veterans, first responders, their families, caregivers and supporters, at the Intergenerational Recreation Center.
Any veteran. Open to veterans and their families without a rating. The rating filter never hides this entry.
When a veteran or service member with a service-related physical or mental health condition goes missing, police treat it as a high risk missing person case and can broadcast a Green Alert through the state clearinghouse.
The state nursing home in West Lafayette admits veterans of all eight uniformed services and their spouses who have a disability and live in Indiana or move there within six months. The Home's own page still says honorable discharge and a year of residence, which is narrower than the law since 2025.
A disability. IC 10-17-9-7(b).
A group health policy issued to an Iowa employer with more than fifty full-time equivalent employees must cover mental illness and substance use disorder treatment for an insured who is a veteran, and so must a public employee plan. A small employer’s policy must cover it only if the policy already covers those conditions, and individual policies are excluded outright.
A large-employer group plan must cover it outright. Iowa Code § 514C.27(1)(a): a group policy issued to an employer who on at least half of its working days in the preceding calendar year employed more than fifty full-time equivalent employees. Affiliated employers or those able to file a consolidated state return count as one employer.
Nursing and domiciliary care in Marshalltown for honorably discharged veterans, their spouses, surviving spouses and gold star parents. A veteran whose care draws the enhanced federal per diem for a service-connected condition pays nothing. Admission requires that you cannot be competitively employed, and spouses and gold star parents together cannot exceed a quarter of the residents.
You must be unable to earn a livelihood, at admission and throughout residency. Iowa Code § 35D.2(1) requires inability to earn a livelihood, and 801 Iowa Administrative Code 10.2(1)(b) states the individual cannot be competitively employed "on the day of admission or throughout the individual’s residency".
Island County's District Court and Human Services run a joint Court Program whose behavioral health case manager offers screenings, assessments and comprehensive referrals, with veterans' services named among them. The county has no veterans treatment docket.
Court-involved community members. The programme serves people in the District Court's orbit through screenings and referrals. No rating is needed.
Kalamazoo County veterans over 60 who are not covered by VA or service benefits can get hearing, dental and vision services through the county Health & Community Services Department, paid by the Senior Millage through a partnership between the Veterans Service Office and the Area Agency on Aging.
Age 60 or over, not covered by VA or service benefits. Veterans over 60 who are not covered by health or service benefits, served through the county health department. No rating is needed.
The 21st Judicial Circuit's Kankakee County Veterans Treatment Court, certified by the Illinois courts, takes veterans with PTSD, mental health or substance use problems who face a probationable charge, live in Kankakee or Iroquois County and are eligible for VA benefits, for at least 18 months; its coordinator is Karen Smietanski at the Veterans Assistance Commission (815-937-8489), and its rules are stricter than the State act's.
Justice-involved veteran. The court is for a veteran with a pending eligible case who consents and is accepted. A disability rating is not the test.
Two state homes, at Winfield and Fort Dodge, for veterans who need 24-hour skilled nursing care. Both statutes still print a two-year Kansas residency bar, but the Attorney General found it unconstitutional in 1992, and the Office of Veterans Services admits non-residents while giving Kansas residents preference.
Wartime service, or peacetime service with VA care entitlement. Active military service during any period of war, or during peacetime coupled with entitlement to VA hospitalization or domiciliary care under title 38.