The Jackson County Clerk (Katherine M. Respondek, 115 W. Main, Room 101, Edna, 361-782-3563) posts a "Request for Copy of Military Discharge Form", notarized for mail requests; its fee schedule effective January 1, 2024 has no discharge line, so the free filing and copy rest on Local Government Code 192.002 and Government Code 603.003.
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 Jackson County Commissioners Court (County Judge Jill Sklar) let the Patriot Warriors of Valor use the Services Building Auditorium at no charge for a veterans event on November 6 and 7, 2026 (July 28, 2026), and adopted unanimously, on September 15, 2026, an FY2027 budget with $6,766 for the part-time veterans officer; no benefit was adopted, narrowed or repealed.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 county-run Jackson County Fair charges veterans nothing on its Veterans Day - in 2026 the Thursday of fair week, August 13, when the gate was discounted to $2.50 for everyone for America's 250th, with a patriotic parade, a drone show and a veterans tribute.
Veteran, on the fair Veterans Day. The fair admits veterans free on its Veterans Day; the day is the Thursday of fair week (August 13 in 2026). No rating is needed.
Every Wednesday from Memorial Day week through Veterans Day, Jackson County Parks + Rec admits veterans and service members free to Missouri Town, Fort Osage and the Longview and Blue Springs lake beaches, with free Par 3 golf and $25 championship rounds at Fred Arbanas. Campsites are $2 a night off for a veteran.
Veterans and service members. Any veteran or current service member with ID. No rating is needed.
The Jackson County Recorder of Deeds, in the Truman Courthouse in Independence, records discharge papers free and gives copies on a notarised request. The page's request form link goes to the National Archives SF-180, which asks the federal records centre, not the Recorder.
Any veteran or authorized party. Recording is free for any discharge document, and copies are free to the veteran and authorized parties. No rating is needed.
The Jackson County Register of Deeds (Shandra Sims, 401 Grindstaff Cove Road, Room 108, Sylva, 828-586-7530) records DD214 military discharge forms and issues certified copies free - “We proudly serve our military by recording their DD214 military discharge forms and issuing certified copies to them free of charge” - the free recording and the restricted access carried by G.S. 47-113.2.
Any veteran with a discharge. Recording a DD-214 is free under G.S. 47-113.2 and no rating is needed. The rating filter never hides this entry.
Jackson County's relief fund for indigent wartime veterans is administered by the Veterans Affairs office under its Veterans Affairs Committee; the county publishes no application, amount or guidelines, so a veteran should call 517-788-4425.
Indigent, with a wartime record. The fund relieves indigent wartime veterans and their families under MCL 35.21. No rating is needed.
Jackson County's Veterans Affairs office at 1715 Lansing Avenue files VA claims free, runs the county's relief, burial and flag programmes and a twice-weekly ride to Ann Arbor, under a four-veteran committee; the county levies no veterans millage and funds the office from the operating levy.
Any veteran, survivor or dependent. Claims help and the rides are free to any veteran or family member; relief and burial have their own tests. No rating is needed.
Jackson County’s Veterans Services Office, inside Health & Human Services, provides benefits information, assistance and advocacy to all who have served and their families: appointments at (541) 774-8214 or [email protected], with outreach sessions, federal and state benefit information, resources from VA claims to housing and legal services, and veterans-in-crisis referrals.
A county Veterans Services programme. The office serves anyone who has served and their families; no rating test is recorded, so the rating filter never hides this benefit.
Jackson County's veterans service office in Pascagoula, run by Chad Goff, helps veterans and family members file and manage VA claims, from increased ratings and appeals to overpayment waivers and burial benefits.
Any veteran or family member. The office helps veterans and family members obtain benefits. No rating is required, so the rating filter never hides this benefit.
Kathryn Abbey Hanna Park and Huguenot Memorial Park charge active military, veterans and their immediate families half the daily admission, wherever they live. Gold Star families who live in Duval County get a free annual pass to all city parks through the Timothy Seamans programme.
Active duty, veterans and immediate family; Gold Star families. Any veteran with ID gets half-price daily entry; Gold Star families resident in Duval get a free annual pass. No rating is needed.
The consolidated City of Jacksonville's veterans department serves all of Duval County: free walk-in claims help, emergency help with past-due rent and utilities, a twice-monthly Ask a Lawyer clinic, discharge upgrade forms, and social services for homeless and at-risk veterans. Call 904-255-5550.
Veterans, service members and families. Any veteran, service member or family member can use the office; emergency rent and utility help goes to qualifying veterans. No rating is needed.
James City County’s code fully exempts one vehicle of a veteran who has lost, or lost the use of, a leg, arm, or hand, is blind, or is permanently and totally disabled, at any rating. The county page describes only the 100% route.
Permanent and total, service-connected. One route in County Code § 20-13.6 and Code of Virginia § 58.1-3506(A)(19). No percentage is named. One vehicle is fully exempt.
The Unified Court System lists one veterans treatment court in Chautauqua County, the Jamestown City Veterans Treatment Court in Jamestown City Court, 200 East 3rd Street, Jamestown (716-483-7605), which links veterans charged with crimes to VA care and veteran mentors under court supervision; the courts accept veterans with all characters of discharge.
A veteran with a criminal case in Chautauqua County. Every character of discharge is accepted. No rating is needed.
Under the U.S.-Japan tax treaty, military retired pay is taxable only by the United States unless the retiree is a Japanese national. For a newcomer, Japan taxes other foreign income only when it is paid in or sent to Japan, for the first five years of residence. U.S. Social Security is taxable in Japan, and the United States keeps taxing it too.
No rating requirement. The treaty and Japanese residence rules turn on the kind of payment, nationality and years of residence, not on any disability percentage.
The Jasper County Clerk (Holly Thomas, 121 North Austin Street, Room 103, Jasper, 409-384-2632) posts no military-discharge line in its fees or forms; 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 Jasper County Commissioners Court (County Judge Mark Allen) posted no veteran item in its agendas of September 2025 to September 2026; its 2026 budget moved $12,000 from the Jasper American Legion to a Veteran Services line, which the 2027 proposed budget keeps. No benefit was adopted, narrowed or repealed in the agendas.
No eligibility - a board record. The record documents the county’s veterans-services administration; it grants no individual entitlement.
Jasper County's Commissioners' Office page posts no agendas or minutes files - the page itself refers past minutes to the County Clerk's Office, Room 102 of the Jasper County Courthouse, 302 S. Main St., Carthage, 417-358-0416 - so a veteran tracking a commission decision asks the Clerk; the county's other veteran touchpoint is the Recorder's free recording of discharges under section 59.480.
Residents of Jasper County. Records route; no eligibility test.
The Jeff Davis County Clerk (Jennifer Wright, 111 North Front Street, Fort Davis; P.O. Box 398; 432-426-3251) posts recording fees of $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 Jeff Davis County Commissioners' Court (County Judge Curtis Evans) took up appointing Jim Sullivan as Veteran's Service Officer on August 12, 2025, lists the officer's report on its 2026 agendas, took up yellow ribbons for veterans (May 12, 2026), $750 of hotel tax funds for a Veterans float (June 9, 2026) and moving the Texas Veterans Commission (Housing for Heroes) work under the Court (August 11, 2026), and approved a Fiscal Year 2026-2027 budget with a $10,000 veterans line on September 29, 2026; it posts no minutes after June 2023. No benefit is known to have been narrowed or repealed.
No eligibility - a board record. The record documents the county’s veterans-services administration; it grants no individual entitlement.
Jefferson County pays section 80-102 veterans aid from a $15,000 general fund line rather than a separate fund: $11,685.55 in 2024-2025 and $6,167.74 in 2025-2026 for provisions, clothing and client needs, with $15,000 again for 2026-2027; apply through the Veterans Service Office in Fairbury.
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 Jefferson County, and need the committee assesses. No rating is required.
Jefferson County’s Veterans Service Office in the Fairbury courthouse, under Veterans Service Officer Jim Carpenter, files VA and State claims, pays drivers to take veterans to VA care, buys grave markers and flags, and with the Board names a Jefferson County Veteran of the Month at each first meeting of the month.
Any Jefferson County veteran or dependent. Claims help, rides and grave markers need no rating; the rating filter never hides this entry.
The Jefferson County Auditor's Recording division records Military Discharge (DD-214) documents; the Auditor, Brenda Huntingford, keeps the recorded discharge confidential and releases it only as the statute allows, the recording itself being free under RCW 73.04.030.
Any veteran with a discharge. Recording a DD-214 is free and no rating is needed. The rating filter never hides this entry.
Jefferson County funds the indigent-veteran programme from its Veterans Relief Fund: the Board's February 9, 2026 consent agenda closed the fund's bank account (Resolution 06-0209-26R, an account consolidation), and the September 8, 2026 additional appropriations (Resolution 46-0908-26R) answered increased demand in the Veterans Relief Fund.
Indigent veterans served from the fund. The fund pays under the Veteran Services page’s emergency and income rules. No rating is needed.
The Jefferson County Board of Commissioners (Jefferson Place, 155 Main Street, 2nd Floor, Brookville; agendas posted as WordPress posts with the current minutes section returning 'Nothing Found') carried the window's veteran item - the August 2025 rename of the county's Veterans Affairs Office to the Jefferson County Veterans Service Office on director Jonathan Wyble's proposal, 'to dispel any confusion that we are not federal, but we are county with the state of Pennsylvania' - and kept the county programme the office runs: the burial and headstone allowances, the cemetery care, the Memorial Day flags and emblem markers and the county DAV van; 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 Bessemer Division of the Jefferson County Circuit Court runs a Veteran's Court, a deferred sentencing programme for honorably discharged veterans charged with nonviolent drug or property crimes tied to a service-related disorder. It asks for a DD-256 honorable discharge certificate and excludes anyone with a prior felony, and completion sets the guilty plea aside and dismisses the case.
Honorably discharged veteran with a nonviolent drug or property charge. An honorable discharge, no prior felony and a service-related disorder. No rating is needed.
The Jefferson County Clerk and Recorder keeps recorded DD-214s closed to the public and releases a copy only to the veteran or, after the veteran's death, to close family, on a notarized request. Its fee schedule lists no free recording of a discharge; most documents are $43.
The veteran, or close family after death. Copies go to the veteran, or after the veteran's death to a parent, sibling, widow or widower, or child. No rating is needed.
Jefferson County's Clerk files a veteran's DD-214 free, filed by the veteran or anyone related to the veteran, keeps the image permanently and gives the veteran or a designated agent copies and certified copies at no charge; send it with a self-addressed stamped envelope and the original comes back.
Any veteran. Filing and copies are free. No rating is needed.
The Jefferson County Clerk, Roxanne Acosta-Hellberg, records a DD-214 at no fee under Local Government Code 192.002 and gives free certified and non-certified copies to the qualified applicants Government Code 552.140 lists, on a notarized proof-of-identification form for mail and email requests.
Any veteran with a discharge. Recording a discharge is free. Copies go only to the people section 552.140 lists.
The Jefferson County Board of Commissioners appropriates monies to the county's veterans organizations for Memorial Day expenses under Revised Code 307.66 - in 2026, $500 to Mingo American Legion Post #351, 209 Penn Avenue, Mingo Junction, moved May 7, 2026.
No individual eligibility - a grant to a veterans organization. Revised Code 307.66 caps the appropriation at $500 per organization; the post spends it on Memorial Day expenses.
Jefferson County Parks and Recreation rents the Veterans Memorial Pavilion at Sam Michaels Park, built in 2016 with a memorial wall to service members, at a discount for veterans who show documentation; the discount is not posted, so call the park office (304-728-3207).
Veterans of the US military. A discount on the pavilion rental with documentation of service; no rating is needed.
The Jefferson County Recorder of Deeds in the Administration Center, 729 Maple Street, Hillsboro, records servicemen's records (DD-214) on request; under State law the recording is free and the record closed. Call 636-797-5414.
Any veteran. Recording a discharge is free and no rating is needed. The rating filter never hides this entry.
The Jefferson County Register & Recorder (200 Main Street, 2nd Floor, Brookville, 814-849-1610) lists 'File DD-214s' among the Recorder of Deeds' services, beside the deeds, mortgages and notary filings and the CSC e-recording; the free recording is 16 Pa.C.S. Chapter 13, carried by the State entry.
Any veteran with a discharge. Recording a DD-214 is free under 16 Pa.C.S. Chapter 13 and no rating is needed. The rating filter never hides this entry.
The Jefferson County Sheriff charges a resident $50 for a concealed weapons license but "NO FEE for Veterans", as Code 61-7-4(q) requires for an honorably discharged veteran of the armed forces, reserves or National Guard; the business office sees applicants by appointment (304-728-3205).
Honorably discharged veteran, West Virginia resident. Code 61-7-4(q) waives the fees for an honorably discharged veteran of the armed forces, reserves or National Guard applying for a resident licence; no rating is needed.
Jefferson County’s all-veteran four-person CVSO office on South Center Avenue works with a five-member commission codified at Sec. 2-218, whose aid totaled $5,008.74 in 2019 and whose records now absorb a dissolved county veterans foundation.
Any veteran or family member. The office assists Jefferson County veterans and their families with claims, aid and van rides. No rating is required, so the rating filter never hides this benefit.
Jefferson County's Veterans Treatment Court takes veterans charged with a felony or a misdemeanour in Jefferson Circuit or District Court into a programme of at least 18 months with the Robley Rex VA Medical Center. It asks for an honorable discharge and current VA care, considers others case by case, prefers combat veterans, and excludes violent felony records, sex offences and major trafficking.
A veteran charged in Jefferson County. An honorable discharge and current VA care, or any other discharge case by case; no violent felony record, sex offence or major trafficking. No rating is needed.
The Twenty-Third Judicial Circuit runs a Jefferson County Veterans Treatment Court, one of its four treatment courts, for a veteran or service member charged with an offence whose case turns on a substance use or mental health disorder; ask the treatment court coordinator, Trish Hutson, (636) 797-6332.
Justice-involved veteran. The court is for a veteran or service member with a pending Jefferson County case who volunteers and is accepted. A disability rating is not the test.
Jefferson County has no county veterans office; the State's Martinsburg benefit office (115 Aikens Center, Suite 16, 304-267-0040) files claims for Jefferson veterans free, the local DAV chapter has used county classroom space in Charles Town since June 2026, and the County Clerk records a service discharge free and keeps it confidential.
Any veteran or family member. The Martinsburg office helps Jefferson County veterans and families free; recording a discharge is free. No rating is needed.
The Jefferson Parish Clerk of Court’s Mortgage and Conveyance Department records military discharges (DD-214) with the parish’s real property records; 504-364-2954.
Any veteran with a DD-214. The clerk records military discharges; no rating is needed.
The Jim Wells County Clerk (J.C. Perez III, 200 North Almond Street, Suite 103, Alice, 361-668-5702) prints "Military Discharge Records - DD214 ... NO FEE" for filing and certified copies, and its copy application lists every person Government Code 552.140 allows.
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 Jim Wells County Commissioners Court (County Judge Pedro "Pete" Trevino Jr.) moved $700 within the Veterans Office budget (September 12, 2025), heard that the Veterans Office had no requests at its 2027 budget workshops, heard Community Action Corporation of South Texas describe new rent, mortgage and utility help for county veterans (September 11, 2026), and adopted a 2027 budget of $132,659 for the office; no county 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.
Johnson County’s Veteran’s Service Office in Tecumseh, open weekdays from 9:00 to 3:00 under Veteran’s Service Officer Ken Mandl, registers discharges, files disability, pension, education, home loan, Veterans’ Home and burial claims and helps arrange rides to VA appointments in Lincoln and Omaha.
Any Johnson County veteran or dependent. Claims help, discharge registration and help with VA appointment rides need no rating; the rating filter never hides this entry.
The Johnson County Clerk, April Long, keeps the county's DD-214s and records a discharge free under Local Government Code 192.002, with the confidentiality and free-copy rules of Government Code 552.140. The Clerk publishes no fee schedule for it, so the no-fee rule rests on the statute.
Any veteran with a discharge. Recording a discharge is free. Copies go only to the people section 552.140 lists.
On October 9, 2025 Warrensburg Mayor Bruce Uhler presented the Johnson County Commission draft plans for a veteran's park - six flags for the six forces, a fountain and benches, to open by June 14, 2026 - and asked the Commission to consider the Courthouse's southeast corner; the County Clerk's chief deputy noted SHPO approval would be needed for Courthouse property and offered the Justice Center's south grass as an alternative.
Johnson County veterans and the public. A proposed county memorial park; no rating is needed.
The Johnson County Recorder of Deeds records military discharges (DD-214) and requires a notarized request form to obtain a copy of a recorded discharge under RSMo 59.480, the forms available in the office and online; the Recorder's fee schedule prices no discharge line, the State's rule making the recording free.
Any veteran with a discharge. Recording is free under the State statute; copies go by notarized request.
Johnson County’s five-member Commission of Veteran Affairs runs a nationally accredited office in Iowa City whose Temporary Emergency Assistance pays short-term help with rent, utilities, food, fuel and funeral expenses for veterans whose household income is under 185 percent of the federal poverty level.
Any veteran and dependents. The commission assists veterans and their dependents with claims and with Temporary Emergency Assistance. No rating is required, so the rating filter never hides this benefit.
Johnson County keeps its section 80-102 Veterans Aid Fund as a $2,500 petty cash fund at the Veteran’s Service Office, topped up from the general fund: it paid $2,600 in 2023-2024, nothing in 2024-2025, and holds $2,500.04 for 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 Johnson County, and need the committee assesses. No rating is required.
Johnson Superior Court 3's Veterans Court, a certified Indiana problem-solving court, is supervised by Judge Douglas B. Cummins with program director Mindy Ison, 18 West Jefferson Street, North Annex, Franklin; (317) 346-4432.
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.