Miscellaneous

The county awards 50 Military Service Medals each year at the annual Military Honors Event hosted at Rowan College of South Jersey’s Cumberland Campus, to veterans honorably discharged who were county residents at entry into service or settled in the county for two years before applying.

Cumberland County veterans. The medal requires an honorable discharge and county residency at entry or two years’ domicile. No rating is required.

Cumberland County's Office of Veterans Affairs & Services, at 20 N. Hanover Street in Carlisle, is the county director of veterans affairs' office: VA-accredited, it files claims and appeals to the Board of Veterans' Appeals, pays the county burial and headstone allowances, and takes the State applications. Its State Benefits page describes the tax exemption and temporary assistance more narrowly than the statutes.

Veterans and families. Any veteran or family member can use the office. No rating is needed.

The Cumberland County Register of Deeds records discharges free and gives free certified copies to authorised people, in a separate restricted index. Its list of who may ask leaves out the widow or widower in their own right.

Veteran, widow or widower, or authorised agent. No rating or fee. Copies go only to the people G.S. 47-113.2 authorises.

The Cumberland County Prosecutor’s Office established its Veterans Diversion Program on December 1, 2017 pursuant to N.J.S.A. 2C:43-23 et seq. for veterans with a mental illness charged with non-violent third- or fourth-degree crimes; referral applications go to [email protected], mentors are recruited, and records may be expunged on successful completion.

Justice-involved veteran. Eligibility requires military service (active or honorably discharged), a mental illness and a non-violent third- or fourth-degree charge. A disability rating is not the test.

Cumberland County's veterans service office files VA claims and appeals and signs the State's forms for veteran licence plates, the disabled veteran hunting and fishing licence and the property tax exclusion, by appointment only. Its burial page still prints the old $300 non-service-connected allowances.

Veteran, dependant or survivor. No rating or fee. The forms it signs have their own rating tests, set by the State.

A court programme, running since 2015, for service members and veterans charged with a crime who have mental or physical health problems, substance use or PTSD, with counselling and help with work, housing and benefits under court supervision.

Service member or veteran with a criminal case. No published discharge or rating test. The court decides who enters.

Cumberland County gives certified copies of marriage and divorce records free to disabled wartime veterans and members of the armed forces. The State law behind it, 51 Pa.C.S. 9201, also covers Guard and Reserve members and the dependents of any of them, for records used in a claim for benefits.

A disabled war veteran, service member or dependent, for a benefits claim. The copy is free for a disabled war veteran, a service member including the Guard and Reserves, or a dependent, for use in a claim. The rating filter does not test this.

Cumberland County exempts a nonresident active-duty service member's vehicle and other personal property from county tax on the member's Leave and Earnings Statement, and a spouse's under the Military Spouses Residency Relief Act. The county's spouse form still requires the spouse to share the member's domicile, a test federal law dropped in January 2023.

Nonresident active-duty service member or spouse. The member must be on active duty here under orders with a domicile in another state. A spouse may use the member's domicile by election under 50 U.S.C. 4001(a)(3). No rating applies.

Cuming County funds section 80-102 aid from a $2,000 line in its Veterans Service Office budget, which spent $836.18 in 2023-2024 and nothing since, and paid a $183.79 claim to its Veterans Aid Fund account on October 13, 2026; its page still asks for wartime service and an honorable discharge, tests the 2024 amendment changed.

Veteran, spouse, surviving spouse or minor child in need. Section 80-102 as amended in 2024: honorable or general service, a year in Nebraska and six months in Cuming County, and need the committee assesses; the page’s wartime and honorable-only test no longer applies. No rating is required.

Cuming County’s Veterans Service Office in Room 54 of the West Point courthouse, under Veterans Service Officer Steve Schwer and assistant Kim Kaup, files VA claims, keeps discharges, orders a bronze grave marker and a Presidential Memorial Certificate for deceased veterans and helps with VA cemetery pre-need forms; its five-member Veterans Board meets monthly.

Any Cuming County veteran or dependent. Claims help, discharge filing and burial help need no rating; the rating filter never hides this entry.

Currituck County's Master Fee Schedule prices the Whalehead museum's Legacy Tours at $5 for active military, with Wounded Warriors admitted free, beside the standard rates of $7 for ages 13 to 54, $5 for 55 and over and $5 for ages 6 to 12.

Active military and Wounded Warriors visiting Whalehead. Active military $5; Wounded Warriors free. A discharge or rating is not stated as the test.

Currituck County's Board of Commissioners passed a Resolution Supporting Operation Green Light for Veterans 6-0 on October 20, 2025, the county's third year in the NCACC initiative that salutes veterans transitioning to civilian life.

No eligibility - a county recognition. The resolution designates a week, not a benefit.

The Curry County Clerk, 417 Gidding Street, Suite 130, Clovis (575-763-5591), records a veteran's DD-214 at no charge, Monday to Friday 8 to 4:30.

Any veteran with a discharge. Recording a discharge is free under State law and no rating is needed. The rating filter never hides this entry.

Custer County’s Veterans Service Office in the courthouse West Annex in Broken Bow, under Veterans Service Officer Emory Haynes, helps veterans with VA benefits, registers DD-214s, places grave flag holders and orders Presidential Memorial Certificates, and also serves Blaine and Loup Counties; in April 2026 the officer and a veteran talked the Board out of moving the office to the basement.

Any veteran or dependent in Custer, Blaine or Loup County. Claims help, DD-214 registration, flag holders and grave registration need no rating; the rating filter never hides this entry.

Custer County’s section 80-102 Veteran’s Aid fund had grown on interest to $105,422.58 by July 2025 without paying any aid in two years, and the whole sum is budgeted for 2025-2026; in April 2026 the Board paid $5,000 from it to a "Custer County Veterans Aid Fund" account, and the county’s page still prints the wartime test that LB1300 removed.

Veteran, spouse, surviving spouse or minor child in need. Section 80-102 as amended in 2024: honorable or general service, a year in Nebraska and six months in Custer County, and need the committee assesses; the county page’s wartime test no longer applies. No rating is required.

The Fiscal Officer records and expunges discharges free. The Veterans Service Commission issues the Ohio veterans ID card, but its page asks for an honorable discharge and three forms of identification, where the statute bars only a dishonorable discharge and asks for two.

Any discharge but dishonorable, under the statute. Recording is free for any discharge. The statute gives the card to a veteran whose recorded discharge is not dishonorable; the county page asks for honorable. No rating is needed.

Emergency help with rent, mortgage, deposits, utilities, food cards, clothing, shoes, hygiene items, dental care and rides to VA care for a Cuyahoga County veteran or family after three months' residence, paid by voucher to the landlord or vendor, up to nine times in 36 months.

Discharge under honorable conditions, three months in the county. A veteran discharged under honorable conditions, an active-duty member, or their spouse, surviving spouse, dependent parent, minor child or ward, resident three months. No rating is needed.

The Common Pleas Court's Veterans Treatment Court takes a veteran on felony probation regardless of discharge type, for 12 to 18 months. Cleveland Municipal Court's Veterans Treatment Docket takes active-duty members, veterans, Guard and reserve members regardless of active-duty time.

Any discharge. Both courts take veterans regardless of discharge type; the municipal docket also takes Guard and reserve members with no active-duty minimum. No rating is needed.

A free copy of a DD-214 and other service records from the National Archives’ National Personnel Records Center, requested online or on Standard Form 180.

The Dade County Board of Commissioners - Chairman Don Townsend, who also carries the title of County Executive, District 1 Bill Pullen, District 2 Phillip Hartline, District 3 Bob Woods and District 4 Melissa Christiansen Bradford, at 71 Case Avenue, Trenton (Commission Office 706-657-4357 and 706-657-4625, P.O. Box 370) - whose meetings sit at 6 p.m. on the first Thursday of every month in the Administrative Building's Public Meeting Room 259 and whose 2025-2026 agenda and minutes documents post on the county's own Simbli portal, which answered an Imperva screen with an hCaptcha challenge, and on a CivicPlus AgendaCenter whose visible list reaches only to November 2021, so no 2025-2026 meeting document could be read (the gap goes to docs/COUNTY-REVISIT.md); the county's own records carry the veteran record - the 2023-2024 holiday schedule observes Veterans Day and the 2026 calendar closes the offices for it on Wednesday, November 11, 2026 - and American Legion Post 106 sits in Trenton, with the Trenton Veterans Memorial Park adjacent to the 1926 Historic Courthouse.

No eligibility - a board record. The record documents the county’s own holiday and organization pages; it grants no individual entitlement.

The Dade County Clerk of Superior Court - Kathy D. Page, first elected 2005, with Chief Deputy Rachel Costa, 255 W. Crabtree St., Suite 103, P.O. Box 417, Trenton, GA 30752 (706-657-4778, fax 706-657-8284, 8:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Monday to Friday) - is the county's recorder of military discharges under O.C.G.A. 15-6-72 and 15-6-78; the State's own Clerks Authority directory prints the office's services as "Real Estate Records, UCC Recordings, Jury Management, Issue Notary Public Commissions & Renewals, Register Trade Names, Military Discharge DD214, Civil Division, Criminal Division, Board of Equalization", the round's own printed discharge line, and the county's own Superior Court section seats Kathy Page as Dade County Clerk of Superior Court.

Any veteran with a discharge. The recording is free under O.C.G.A. 15-6-78 and the record is closed for fifty years under 15-6-72. No rating is needed.

The Dade County Recorder of Deeds, Carolyn Kile, Dade County Courthouse, 300 W. Water Street, Greenfield (417-637-5373), lists "Service Discharge Records" at "No Charge" in her fee list; she runs the office alone, so call ahead. RSMo 59.480 limits copies to the veteran or an authorized party.

Any veteran with a discharge. Recording and copies are free under the State statute; copies go only to the veteran or the people 59.480 names. No rating is needed.

The Dade County Tax Commissioner - Angie M. Galloway, 71 Case Avenue, Trenton, GA 30752, P.O. Box 349 (706-657-7563, Monday to Thursday 8:00 a.m. to 4:45 p.m., Friday 8:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m., dadecountypay.com) - takes the applications, and the Tax Commissioner's own General Information page prints the homestead and elderly routes: "There are several types of homestead exemptions which help to reduce the burden of ad valorem taxation on Georgia homeowners" and "There are several types of exemptions for the elderly (must be over 62 with a household income that does not exceed $10,000)", with qualification "to own and occupy the property as of January 1 of that same year" and an April 1 filing deadline, but no Disabled Veterans row printed - the county's own veteran amounts rest on the State entries, and the Tax Assessors' qPublic site was not read (the gap goes to docs/COUNTY-REVISIT.md).

Qualifying disabled veteran or surviving spouse who owns and occupies the home. The exemption follows O.C.G.A. 48-5-48 and 48-5-52.1; the county’s own page prints the homestead and elderly routes and no veteran row, so the amounts are the State’s. The rating filter never hides this entry.

Dakota County’s Veterans Service Office runs a county veterans aid fund under section 80-102 for unforeseen emergencies, which the Board replenishes $4,500 at a time - $9,000 in each of 2024-2025 and 2025-2026 - though the county’s page still prints the wartime-era and honorable-only test that LB1300 removed in 2024.

Veteran, spouse, surviving spouse or minor child in need. Section 80-102 as amended in 2024: honorable or general service, a year in Nebraska and six months in Dakota County, and need the committee assesses; the county page’s wartime test no longer applies. No rating is required.

Dakota County’s Veterans Service Office in the Dakota City courthouse, under Veterans Service Officer Nick Nieman, files VA claims and health care applications, places a bronze flag holder on veterans’ graves and orders a Presidential Memorial Certificate for every deceased county veteran; under a yearly interlocal agreement it also serves Dixon County on the first and third Thursdays.

Any veteran or dependent in Dakota or Dixon County. Claims help, grave flag holders and DD-214 recording need no rating; the rating filter never hides this entry.

Dakota County's Veterans Treatment Court is a 12-to-24-month programme for a veteran charged with a misdemeanour or greater offence in Dakota County who lives or works there and has a treatable behavioural, mental health or chemical health problem; coordinator Katie Shufelt, 651-554-6239.

Justice-involved veteran. The court is for a veteran charged with a misdemeanour or greater offence in Dakota County who volunteers and is accepted by the team. A disability rating is not the test.

The Dale County Probate Office in Ozark records a military discharge or release free - its fee sheet says "No fee for recording Military Discharge or Military Release Forms" - and its hunting and fishing counter issues the State disabled veteran license on a VA letter stating the disability percentage.

Any veteran with a discharge or release form. Recording is free; no rating is needed. The disabled veteran license needs a VA letter stating the disability percentage.

Dale County runs its own residential garbage service at $18 a month, and its Solid Waste office already verifies the State's Social Security fee exemption every year. From October 1, 2026, Act 2026-506 adds households whose only income is veterans' benefits at or below the poverty level; Dale has adopted no wider limit.

Sole income from veterans' benefits. The only household income must be veterans' benefits, at or below the federal poverty level (Dale has adopted no higher limit). Asked for again each year. From October 1, 2026.

None of the eight 2026 agendas the Dallam County Commissioners Court (County Judge Wes Ritchey) posts names veterans, a veterans officer or a veterans benefit; the county posts no minutes, and the FY 2026-2027 budget taken up on September 14, 2026 keeps the veterans officer at $17,086.75. No benefit is known to have been adopted, narrowed or repealed.

No eligibility - a board record. The record documents the county’s veterans-services administration; it grants no individual entitlement.

The Dallam County and District Clerk (Terri Banks, Dalhart, (806) 244-4751) lists military discharges among the documents it files but posts no fee schedule or discharge form; the free DD-214 filing (Local Government Code 192.002), the free certified copy (Government Code 603.003) and the confidentiality (552.140) are the State's.

Any veteran with a discharge. Recording a discharge and a certified copy are free under the State statutes; copies go only to the people Government Code 552.140 lists. No rating is needed.

The Dallas County Clerk charges no filing fee for a military discharge and, with a valid veteran ID, none for an assumed name (DBA) certificate or its withdrawal. The discharge waiver is required by statute; the assumed name waiver is the Clerk's choice under Business and Commerce Code 71.155(a-1).

Any veteran. Any veteran with a discharge or a veteran ID. No rating is needed.

Dallas County's veterans county service office files and follows VA and State claims for veterans and survivors, by appointment only, and visits shut-ins. For emergency money it refers veterans to the Texas VFW Foundation's assistance programme and will sign its application. Call 972-692-4939.

Veterans and survivors. Any veteran or survivor can use the office. No rating is needed.

The Dallas County Veterans Commission, three commissioners and executive director Nick Praska, files federal, state and county benefit forms for veterans from its Adel office free of charge.

Any veteran or dependent residing in Dallas County. The commission assists county residents who served and their dependents with federal, state and county benefits, free of charge. No rating is required.

The highest-volume CVSO office in Wisconsin runs from Aberg Avenue in Madison with nine staff, and a five-member Veterans Service Commission codified at 15.37 furnishes emergency assistance paid to landlords and utilities.

Any veteran or family member. The office assists Dane County veterans and their families with federal, state and local benefits; emergency assistance reaches needy veterans, spouses, surviving spouses, children and parents. No rating is required.

Operating since October 2014 as the eleventh veterans treatment court in Wisconsin, the Dane County court sits before Judge Ellen Berz, Branch 11, with mentors and a UW Law veterans legal clinic attached.

Veteran defendant, court-decided admission. The Dane County Veterans Treatment Court admits veteran defendants the court finds suitable, pre- or post-disposition; there is no right to participation.

The Dauphin County Recorder of Deeds records a veteran's discharge free and runs a Veteran ID Discount Card Program whose published vendor list covers roughly two dozen Harrisburg-area businesses, from 10 percent off at Advance Auto Parts to a waived home appraisal fee at Artisan Mortgage.

A Dauphin County veteran. Recording is free for any final discharge. No rating is needed.

Dauphin County's Veterans Affairs Office, on the fourth floor of the Administration Building, is the county director of veterans affairs' office: VA claims, the State real estate tax exemption, Veterans' Temporary Assistance, the county burial allowance and grave markers, free discharge recording and a veterans' job listings board. Call 717-780-6356.

Veterans, dependents and survivors. Any veteran, family member or survivor can use the office. No rating is needed.

The Dauphin County Court of Common Pleas' Veterans Court, in the 12th Judicial District, takes county veterans charged with certain felonies or any misdemeanour whose PTSD, brain injury, military sexual trauma, addiction or another Axis I diagnosis led to the charges, on diversionary, incentive and standard tracks. Discharge type can disqualify.

A veteran with a Dauphin County criminal case. The discharge is weighed and can disqualify. No rating is needed.

Davidson County's Office of Veterans Services, 220 East First Avenue Extension, Suite 2, Lexington, helps veterans and dependants with claims, appeals, insurance, education benefits and the State's dependant scholarships, by appointment only (336-242-2037), weekdays 8 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Veteran or dependant. No rating or fee.

The Davidson County Register of Deeds records a veteran's DD-214 free and, at the same visit, makes a free Thank a Veteran photo ID card that serves as proof of service for the Nashville businesses on its discount list. A veteran whose DD-214 is already recorded there needs only a photo ID.

A veteran who records a DD-214 in Davidson County. The card is made for a veteran who records a DD-214 with the Davidson County Register of Deeds, or has already done so, and shows a photo ID. The Register describes the programme for veterans living in Nashville.

Davidson County's Veterans Treatment Court, presided over by General Sessions Judge Melissa Blackburn, meets Mondays at 1 p.m. in the Justice A. A. Birch Building. Veterans with mental health or substance use problems take part as a condition of probation or a diversion, with evaluation, treatment and client specialists. Call (615) 862-8320.

A veteran facing charges, on probation or diversion terms. Participation is a condition of probation or a diversion programme. The court's page publishes no rating, discharge or charge test.

The Davie County Board of Commissioners (Benita Finney chair, M. Brent Shoaf and the board) carried the veterans year in the January 2026 Veterans Computer Lab opening at Veterans Services and the county's Operation Green Light for Veterans courthouse illumination around Veterans Day, with the November 11, 2026 office closure on the county calendar; the board's CivicClerk agenda and minutes were not machine-readable, and no benefit was adopted, narrowed or repealed.

No eligibility - a board record. The record documents the county’s veterans-services administration; it grants no individual entitlement.

The Davie County Register of Deeds (Kelly C. Funderburk, 123 South Main Street, County Administration Building, Mocksville, 336-753-6080) records every veteran's DD-214 "free of charge" and issues the complimentary "Thank a Vet" photo ID badge - "granting them access to tons of discounts and 'freebies' all over Davie County" - against the office's own list of participating businesses.

Any veteran with a discharge. Recording a DD-214 is free and the Thank a Vet badge follows it; no rating is needed. The rating filter never hides this entry.

Daviess County's adopted FY2026-27 budget carries a $1,500 contribution to a Veterans Affairs Committee among its Cultural Programs contributions (account 01-5425-507-06); the county publishes no veterans office or board page, and the Fiscal Court's year of minutes and agendas names no veteran item, so the committee's work is not published.

Daviess County veterans. The contribution funds a county Veterans Affairs Committee; no eligibility is published.

The Davis County Recorder records military discharges and provides certified copies at no charge.

Any veteran. Recording a discharge is free and no rating is needed. The rating filter never hides this entry.

Dawes County’s section 80-102 Veterans Aid Fund, about $6,600 with no levy, pays small claims for veterans’ rent and fuel, burials, travel and medical needs - $1,702.22 in 2024-2025 and claims of $100 to $760 through 2025-2026.

Veteran, spouse, surviving spouse or minor child in need. Section 80-102 as amended in 2024: honorable or general service, a year in Nebraska and six months in Dawes County, and need the committee assesses. No rating is required.

Dawes County’s Veterans Service Office on Main Street in Chadron, under Veterans Service Officer Robert (Spike) Jordan, files veterans’ claims, assists widows, families and those serving, and drives veterans to appointments on a mileage agreement with Open Plains Transit; since 2025 it also serves Sioux County, which pays Dawes $10,620 a year.

Any veteran, widow or family member in Dawes or Sioux County. Claims help needs no rating; the rating filter never hides this entry.

The Dawson County Board of Commissioners - Chairman Billy Thurmond, District 1 Commissioner Seth Stowers, District 2 Commissioner Chris Gaines, District 3 Commissioner Alexa Bruce and District 4 Commissioner Chad Turkett, all elected at-large, meeting the first and third Thursday with a 4 p.m. work session and a voting session following, at 25 Justice Way, Dawsonville (706-344-3500) - whose 2025-2026 record (265 agenda, packet and minutes files read whole) carries the year's veteran items, all about the county's own Veterans Memorial Park: the October 2, 2025 ratification of the pavilion's emergency shoring, the February 5, 2026 SPLOST VII list's "$1,000,000 ... field improvements, lighting improvements, and pickle ball courts", and the February 19 to March 19, 2026 IFB #493-25 pavilion-repair contract passed 4-0; American Legion Post 247 meets in Dawsonville.

No eligibility - a board record. The record documents the board’s posted 2025-2026 files and the county’s veterans organizations; it grants no individual entitlement.