Miscellaneous

The Dent County Recorder of Deeds, Cindy (Edwards) Ard, 112 E. Fifth St., Suite 2, Salem (573-729-2198), records military service discharges free and gives free copies and certified copies on a notarized request, and its page says neither the request nor the notary may be charged for.

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 Denton County Clerk records a DD-214 free and issues a free Thank A Veteran ID that local businesses in the Clerk's directory honour with a discount. The Clerk says certified copies go only to the veteran and immediate family; Government Code 552.140 lists more people who may have them.

Any veteran with a DD-214. Any veteran with a DD-214 can record it and get the card. No rating is needed.

A Denton County case manager for veterans, spouses and dependents living in the county: anyone can refer, a navigator calls back within five business days, and the case manager assesses needs, sets goals and links the family to community services.

Denton County veterans and families. A veteran, spouse or dependent living in Denton County. No rating is needed.

Denton County's veterans county service office files VA claims and appeals for veterans and dependents free, by scheduled appointment only, at 1505 E. McKinney Street, Denton. Call 940-349-2950.

Veterans and dependents. Any Denton County veteran or dependent can use the office. No rating is needed.

A 12-month veterans treatment court in County Criminal Court No. 3 with a diversion track that ends in dismissal and a free expunction. Its criteria take only an honorable or general discharge and its booklet asks for a condition from service in a combat zone or hazardous duty area; Government Code chapter 124 requires neither.

Honorable or general discharge, or serving; case pending in Denton County. A veteran with an honorable or general discharge, or a serving member, with a Denton County case and a service-related injury, disorder or trauma. No rating is needed.

The Denver Clerk and Recorder records a DD-214 free, where most documents cost $43. A recorded discharge is closed to the public under State law and opens only to the veteran or, after the veteran's death, close family.

Any discharge. Recording a DD-214 is free. No rating is needed.

The Second Judicial District, which is Denver, runs a Veterans Treatment Court for veterans with criminal cases, with a coordinator and a veteran peer mentor programme. The district publishes no eligibility rules; ask the coordinator.

Veteran with a criminal case in Denver. A veteran charged in the Second Judicial District whom the court accepts. No rating is needed.

Deschutes County Veteran Service Officers help veterans and their families get the benefits they have earned - compensation, pension, healthcare and homeless assistance - by appointment: call 541-585-VETS or email [email protected], bringing proof of military service, preferably the original DD214.

Veterans and their families of Deschutes County. The office serves any veteran or family member with a claims or benefits question; no rating is required, so the rating filter never hides this benefit.

Deuel County’s part-time Veterans Service Office in Chappell, under Veterans Service Officer Charles “Chip” Graves since March 2026, files county, State and federal claims, promotes the disabled veteran vehicle tax exemption and reports to the Board each month.

Any Deuel County veteran or dependent. Claims help needs no rating; the rating filter never hides this entry.

Deuel County’s section 80-102 Veterans’ Aid Fund held $8,821 on July 1, 2026 with no levy; it paid a $2,000 funeral and $431.09 of emergency relief in 2024-2025 and nothing in 2025-2026, and its 2026-2027 budget sets the whole fund aside for veterans’ funerals.

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 Deuel County, and need the committee assesses. No rating is required.

The Dimmit County Clerk (Claudia McDaniel, 103 N. 5th Street, Carrizo Springs, 830-876-2323 option 5) names "DD214's military discharge" among the instruments it records, and lists recording at $25 for a first page but no discharge line; 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.

Of the 24 sets of minutes of the Dimmit County Commissioners Court (County Judge Martha Alicia Gomez Ponce) for September 8, 2025 through October 2, 2026, only those of February 2, 2026 name veterans: the Court gave the Veterans Affairs Officer an office in the courthouse annex. Its FY 2026-2027 budget raises the Veterans department to $24,400, and the county's 2026 holidays include Veterans Day. 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.

Dinwiddie grants the one-vehicle exemption on the same affidavit as the home, naming the vehicle by year, make, model and VIN, in a county that prorates vehicles on acquisition and disposal.

100% permanent and total. One owned motor vehicle used mainly by or for the veteran, named on the affidavit. Dinwiddie accepts a disability compensated at the 100% rate, and prorates the tax by acquisition date. One path is a VA rating of 100% that is service-connected, permanent, and total.

Dinwiddie charges a $20.00 annual vehicle license tax ($10.00 for a motorcycle) payable June 5, and exempts the vehicles article II of chapter 14 lists, including one vehicle carrying DMV special permanent plates for a veteran with service-connected disabilities.

Asks the service branch’s Discharge Review Board or Board for Correction to upgrade a discharge, with liberal consideration for PTSD, TBI, sexual assault or harassment, and the repealed Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell policy.

The word VETERAN printed on a District licence or identification card for anyone who served on active duty and was discharged other than dishonorably. The DMV’s page says honorable, which is narrower than the Code.

Active duty and a discharge other than dishonorable. D.C. Code 50-1401.01(b)(3); 50-1401.03(a)(2). The DMV asks for an honorable discharge.

The District has no hunting licence to discount and no veteran or disability discount on its fishing licence, which costs $10 for a resident. Only anglers under 16 or 65 and older fish free.

A service member whose legal residence is the District pays District tax on military pay wherever stationed; one stationed in the District but domiciled elsewhere does not. Military spouses can keep their own domicile, and anyone serving in a combat zone gets extra time to file and pay.

District domicile, or a military spouse keeping another domicile. 2025 D-40 instructions; 50 U.S.C. 3911(6) includes the District in "State".

The District taxes military retired pay in full. Its $3,000 exclusion for retirees 62 and older ended with tax year 2014 and bills to restore it have died. Survivor Benefit Plan and other federal survivor annuities are fully excluded for a survivor aged 62 or older, and VA compensation is never taxed.

Survivor annuity excluded at 62 or older. D.C. Code 47-1803.02(a)(2)(N)(ii); D-40 Schedule I, Calculation A, line 12.

No annual registration fee on one non-commercial vehicle owned by a veteran VA has classified as permanently and totally disabled from a service-connected condition, whatever plate it carries. Unlike the property tax deduction, there is no separate route for unemployability that is not permanent.

Rated 100 percent and permanent and total. D.C. Code 50-1501.03(f): "classified ... as having a total and permanent disability as a result of a service incurred or aggravated condition".

Veteran plates with a separate design for each branch, a women veteran plate, a Purple Heart plate created in May 2026 with a $10 fee and no display fee, and a DAV plate for chapter members. The Code gives the veteran plate on a discharge other than dishonorable; the DMV asks for an honorable one.

Veteran plate: active duty, or Guard or reserve called up or with 20 years, other than dishonorable. D.C. Code 50-1501.02a(a). The DMV asks for an honorable discharge.

Dixon County’s section 80-102 Veterans Aid Fund, with no levy, paid $3,000 in 2024-2025 and nothing in 2025-2026, then paid the county’s Veterans Service Office account $3,000 in August and $1,500 in September 2026 from a $5,271 balance; the State Auditor found the office’s $1,500 petty cash unreconciled.

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 Dixon County, and need the committee assesses. No rating is required.

The Dodge County Board of Commissioners - Chairman Dan McCranie, Vice-Chair Brian Watkins (District 3), District 1 Sharon Cobb Flanagan, District 2 Leigh Ann Greene and District 4 Jeffrey Jones, with County Manager Conner Bearden at 643 Pearl Bates Ave., P.O. Box 818, Eastman (478-374-4361, fax 478-374-8121) - whose 147 posted 2024-2026 agenda and minutes documents (the county's own full-year archive) were read whole: the January 28, 2025 joint work session with Eastman, Chester and Chauncey on House Bill 581, the February 13 and 20, 2025 public hearings, the February 25, 2025 opt-out with the board's promise of a local flat homestead exemption effective for the 2026 tax bills, the June 16, 2025 state-compliance report, the August 18, 2025 proclamation of John L. Battle, Sr. Day on November 20, 2025 - "John L. Battle, Sr. was a highly decorated combat veteran, awarded the Purple Heart and retired from Warner Robins Air Force Base with an Honorable Discharge" - the February 16, 2026 report of the HB 581 tax-billing delays, and the June 1, 2026 LHOST legislation request carried on Commissioners Greene, Jones and Flanagan's votes; American Legion Post 126 sits in Eastman and the VFW's own post locator names no post for Eastman.

No eligibility - a board record. The record documents the board’s 2024-2026 minutes and the county’s organizations; it grants no individual entitlement.

The Dodge County Clerk of Superior Court - Rhett Walker, first elected 2000, 643 Pearl Bates Ave., P.O. Box 4276, Eastman, GA 31023 (478-374-2871, fax 478-374-3035, 9:00 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 "Passports" and its staff rows - Donna Barrentine (Real Estate), Sheila White (Civil) and Cambri Jones (Criminal) - with no discharge line, so the free recording and the 50-year closure rest on the State entries.

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 Dodge County Tax Commissioner - Jackie Smith, 5016 Courthouse Circle (478-374-2154, fax 478-374-9236, per the county's own services directory), with the Tax Assessors' office under Dale Jones at the same address - takes the applications, and the county's own record is the board's February 25, 2025 House Bill 581 opt-out: "Commissioner Flanagan made motion to opt out of HB 581 with the understanding that the Board of Commissioners will establish a local homestead exemption, as was suggested at a previous Board of Commissioners' meeting, to be put into practice effective for the 2026 tax bills and that is a flat amount, much like the state exemption"; the county's own pages print no veteran row, so the veteran amounts rest on the State entries, and the Tax Commissioner's Government Window site and the Tax Assessors' qPublic site were not read (the gaps go 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 pages print no veteran row, so the amounts are the State’s. The rating filter never hides this entry.

Dodge County’s Veterans Service Office in the Fremont courthouse, under Veterans Service Officer Mark Schneck, helps veterans, widows and families with federal, state and county benefits under section 80-407; the Board signed it onto the State’s VetraSpec claims database in November 2025 and renewed the licence through Tyler Technologies in September 2026.

Any Dodge County veteran, widow or family member. Free help with federal, state and county veterans benefits; no rating is required, so the rating filter never hides this entry.

Dodge County’s CVSO office in Juneau publishes its aid schedule outright - $2,000 on a first request, $1,500 more within twelve months, no lifetime cap, plus a $200 special authority that reaches under-honorable discharges - and runs an Emergency Relief Fund and gift-card program beside it.

Any veteran or eligible family member. The aid schedule reaches needy veterans with $2,000 first requests and $1,500 renewals, and the $200 special authority extends eligibility to under-honorable discharges. No rating is required.

Dodge County funds its section 80-102 veterans’ aid from inheritance tax rather than property tax: the adopted 2025-2026 budget moves $10,320 from the Inheritance fund into the Veterans’ Aid fund "to avoid property taxes on a small fund", and the county keeps a $12,000 Veterans’ Aid petty cash account so the committee can pay without waiting for the Board.

Veteran, spouse, surviving spouse or minor child in need. Section 80-102: honorable or general (under honorable conditions) service, one year in Nebraska and six months in Dodge County, and need the committee assesses. No rating is required.

A veteran entitled to either property tax exemption may pay the tax instead and direct the county to credit the money to the gift account for the veterans home in southern or northern Nevada. The renewal form the assessor mails each year carries the designation box.

Anyone entitled to the NRS 361.090 or NRS 361.091 exemption may donate it. NRS 361.0905, subsection 1. The same option applies to the vehicle governmental services tax exemptions through NRS 371.1035.

The Donley County Clerk (Vicky Tunnell, also District Clerk; P.O. Drawer U, Clarendon; (806) 874-3436) posts official public records recording at $25 for a first page and $4 for each further page but no discharge line; 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 Donley County Commissioners Court (County Judge John C. Howard) heard a presentation by Veterans Service Officer George Hall on October 14, 2025, and its 2026-2027 proposed budget carries the $3,500 Veterans Services office unchanged; the county posts no minutes after April 2026 and no record of the budget's adoption. 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.

A voluntary District Court treatment program in Cambridge for a veteran charged with a crime in Dorchester, Somerset, Wicomico, or Worcester County, pairing the case with VA and treatment services. It is not a disability benefit.

Justice-involved veteran. The court is for a veteran with a pending criminal case in the courts it serves who volunteers and is accepted. A disability rating is not the test.

The Douglas County Clerk and Recorder records a military discharge or DD-214 at no charge, where most documents cost $43. A recorded discharge is closed to the public under State law and opens only to the veteran or, after the veteran's death, close family.

Any discharge. Recording a DD-214 is free. No rating is needed.

The Douglas County Register of Deeds (Darcie J. Burbul, Courthouse Building, 1313 Belknap St., Room 108, Superior, 715-395-1551) is by its own mission statement "the official County repository for all real estate records, deeds, land contracts, military discharge records for veterans, mortgages, and vital records" - the free recording is 45.05, and the bound discharge volumes back to 1919 have been digitised volume by volume since 2021.

Any veteran with a discharge. Recording a discharge is free under 45.05 and no rating is needed. The rating filter never hides this entry.

Douglas County's Veterans Service Office gives emergency help from a State grant to Douglas County veterans with an other than dishonorable discharge and a genuine need, for rent or mortgage, transportation, medical needs, food and similar costs, paid to the vendor or by gift card. Apply online with the DD-214 and proof of current residence.

Douglas County veterans in an emergency. An other than dishonorable discharge, a genuine need and current residence in Douglas County. No rating is needed.

The Douglas County Veterans Service Commission - established by Wis. Stats. 45.81; Bill Fennessey chair, with Howard Hendrickson, Thomas "Butch" Liebaert and Amy Ribaudo - provides oversight of the county's Soldiers and Sailors Relief Fund, the tax the County Board levies for aid to needy veterans under 45.81 to 45.86, and met January 21, 2026 and September 17, 2026 with the spending reports, the 2027 budget referral and the office-space capital project.

Needy Douglas County veteran or family. The SSRF aids needy veterans and their families under 45.81 to 45.86; apply through the Veterans Service Office. The rating filter never hides this entry.

Douglas County’s veterans service office in Omaha, led by county veterans service officer Benson Elmore, is the county’s own claims office under the state’s chapter 80 framework, and the committee behind it administers the county’s veterans aid fund.

Any veteran, spouse, surviving spouse or minor child. The office assists veterans and their families with claims, and the county aid fund reaches a veteran’s spouse, surviving spouse and minor children under eighteen. No rating is required, so the rating filter never hides this benefit.

The Douglas County Veteran Service Office provides advocacy and education about VA claims, with officers accredited through ODVA: 1036 SE Douglas Avenue, Room CH7/8, Roseburg; 541-440-4219, fax 541-440-6166, answering within about 48 hours.

Veterans of Douglas County and their claimants. The office serves any veteran pursuing a VA claim; no rating is required, so the rating filter never hides this benefit.

Douglas County’s veterans treatment court runs on the Nebraska Supreme Court’s problem-solving court model with veteran mentors, frequent testing and judicial review hearings; the state lists coordinator Rob Owens.

Veteran with a criminal case in Douglas County. The county’s court takes veterans through the problem-solving court team; entry is by referral through counsel or the court, and the coordinator is the state’s listed contact.

A post-plea veterans treatment court in Lawrence, DOJ-grant funded through 2029, fifteen to eighteen months, capacity ten, open to any discharge type with out-of-county residents needing VA health eligibility, ending in expungement on completion.

Veteran charged with a qualifying offense. Applicants must be charged with a qualifying felony or misdemeanor; any discharge type is considered, and out-of-county veterans must qualify for VA health services and have reliable transportation.

Douglas County's Records Services records DD-214 military discharge records at no charge to the veteran, and they are no longer public record.

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

The Doña Ana County Clerk's recording fee schedule prices a Military Discharge recording free, with certified copies free as well, against the $25 general recording fee per document.

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

The Third Judicial District's Doña Ana County District Court runs a Veterans Treatment Court under Presiding Judge James Martin, with Alternate Judge Manuel Arrieta and Program Coordinator Rachel Urdialez, 575-528-8340, per the state treatment court directory.

Justice-involved veteran. The court is for a veteran with a pending criminal case in the district who volunteers and is accepted. A disability rating is not the test.

The DuPage County Recorder's fee schedule lists recording a DD-214 military discharge and its certified copies at no charge, where other documents cost $86 to record and certified copies $5. The VAC also helps veterans find and retrieve discharge documents.

Any veteran with a DD-214. Recording a DD-214 and getting certified copies is free. No rating is needed.

The 18th Judicial Circuit's Veterans Court in Wheaton supervises treatment for veterans charged with a crime who have a substance use or mental health need and plead guilty under a contract. It excludes a dishonorable discharge and a crime of violence in the past five years, as the State act does, and has a veteran mentor programme.

Veteran charged with a crime, with a treatment need. Not dishonorably discharged, no crime of violence in the past five years, and a plea under contract. No rating is needed.

The Dublin Judicial Circuit's District Attorney - Harold McLendon, whose office serves the circuit's Johnson, Laurens, Treutlen and Twiggs counties from Dublin - lists a Veterans' Court among the circuit's accountability courts on the DA's own site: "he will dedicate resources to the pursuit of alternative resolutions through active engagement of the Accountability Courts (Drug Court, Mental Health Court, and Veterans' Court) and operation of the DA's Office P.I.E.R.S. Program, a pretrial diversion option for qualified offenders"; the Council of Accountability Court Judges' directory certifies the Dublin Circuit Drug Court (Judge William Taylor III, coordinator Mark Bowers, begun July 2022) and the Dublin Circuit Mental Health Court (begun January 2016) and lists no veterans treatment court for the circuit, so the Veterans' Court is the DA's named programme and not a certified docket.

Justice-involved veteran. The circuit’s Veterans’ Court takes veterans charged with an offense through the DA’s office; a disability rating is not the test. The docket is not CACJ-certified.

Dubuque County Veteran Services, in the Old Jail Building next to the courthouse, fields certified staff under executive director Randy Rennison and runs a walk-in Veteran’s Food Pantry for qualifying county veterans and their families, weekdays 8 to 4:30.

Any qualifying Dubuque County veteran or family member. Veteran Services assists county veterans and their families with claims, and the food pantry takes walk-ins with veteran identification. No rating is required.

Dundy County’s section 80-102 Veterans Aid fund has held $10,399.22 since July 2023 with no levy, no receipts and no payments, and budgets $1,000 of emergency relief for 2025-2026; the county’s page still asks for wartime service and an honorable discharge, tests the 2024 amendment 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 Dundy County, and need the committee assesses; the county page’s wartime test no longer applies. No rating is required.