Miscellaneous

The Kent County Veterans Treatment Court at the 62A District Court in Wyoming takes misdemeanour and felony cases from anywhere in Kent, Montcalm and Barry counties. It asks for an honorable or general discharge and 24 months of service, rules that differ from the State statute's, and admits a veteran only once.

Honorable or general discharge, 24 months, a pending charge. An honorable or general discharge, 24 months of continuous service or a service-connected injury or illness, a charge pending in Kent, Montcalm or Barry County and residence there. No rating is needed.

The Kentucky Court of Justice's Department of Specialty Courts runs a Veterans Treatment Court in Kenton County, with VA staff and volunteer veteran mentors, for justice-involved veterans with substance use or mental health needs; a judge, prosecutor, defence attorney, probation or pretrial officer or VA justice outreach coordinator can refer.

Justice-involved veteran. For a veteran in the criminal courts who is referred and accepted. A disability rating is not the test.

Every Kentucky county clerk must record a resident's DD-214 or other discharge papers free; the recorded papers are not public records (only the index of names is), copies go only to the veteran and the family members and agents the statute lists, and the clerk must destroy every copy within 15 days if the veteran asks.

Any discharged veteran resident in the county. Recording is free for a resident of the county; copies go only to the people KRS 422.090(5) lists. No rating is needed.

A resident veteran rated 50% or more buys a $12.68 license bundling hunting, fishing, all deer permits, both turkey permits, waterfowl, and trout. The three-year term people quote is the authorization, not the license.

Service-connected rating of 50% or more. A Kentucky resident veteran at least fifty percent disabled as the result of a service-connected disability qualifies. This is the lowest meaningful gate in Kentucky and one of only two benefits that open before a total rating.

Free at 100% service-connected or with a VA vehicle grant. $23 initial and renewal between 50% and 99%, falling to $17 on January 1, 2027.

Service-connected rating of 50% or more for the reduced-fee plate. KRS 186.162(2)(d) sets the fee for a disabled veteran declared by the United States Department of Veterans' Affairs to be between fifty percent and ninety-nine percent service-connected disabled. Below fifty percent there is no disabled veteran plate, though a veteran with a qualifying discharge may still buy a general military plate at the same fee.

All active duty pay is exempt, including drill and annual training pay for Guard and Reserve members, and a servicemember with no other income need not file a Kentucky return at all.

No rating, no wartime service, no discharge requirement. This is a current-service exemption rather than a veterans benefit. Nothing about a disability rating or a discharge affects it, and the rating filter never hides it.

Up to $31,110 of retired pay is excluded, and service before January 1, 1998 can push the exempt share higher through Schedule P. The exclusion has been frozen at $31,110 since 2018 while the tax rate keeps falling.

No disability rating and no wartime service required. The exclusion is general pension relief available to every Kentucky taxpayer with retirement income. Nothing about the rating, the era of service, or the character of discharge affects it.

$23 to start and $11 a year after, the cheapest renewal of any Kentucky military plate. A surviving spouse may keep a Purple Heart or POW plate and renew it indefinitely.

No disability rating required. Eligibility rests on the award, prisoner of war status, or presence at Pearl Harbor. No rating is involved, so the rating filter never hides this entry.

A resident former POW camps free in any Kentucky state park or campground, with no annual limit, no peak-period restriction, and no rating requirement.

No disability rating required. KRS 148.0211 requires prisoner of war status, an honorable discharge, and Kentucky residency. No rating appears anywhere in the section, so the rating filter never hides this entry.

Three free overnight stays a year at any Kentucky state park for a resident veteran rated 100% permanent and total, covering only the veteran, bookable only by phone and no more than ten days ahead.

Total service-connected disability. The statute requires one hundred percent permanent and total and says so twice. Kentucky is close to all-or-nothing: apart from the hunting and fishing license and the reduced-fee plate at fifty percent, the benefits worth real money all require a total rating. There is no ladder of partial benefits between forty and one hundred, so crossing to one hundred opens several entries at once and nothing opens before it.

An honorably discharged veteran can have a veteran designation added to a Kentucky license or ID card, which is proof of service for discounts without carrying a DD-214.

No disability rating required. The designation requires only an honorable discharge and acceptable documentation. No rating is involved, so the rating filter never hides this entry.

A grant fund for organizations, not a source of aid to individual veterans. Funded mainly by the $5 earmark in veteran license plate fees, part of which was redirected in 2026.

Not a benefit individual veterans can claim. The fund makes grants to projects and programs that help Kentucky veterans, on application by organizations and decision by a Governor-appointed board. An individual veteran cannot apply for personal assistance. No disability rating is involved anywhere.

A disabled veteran with any service-connected rating, or a former prisoner of war, can buy a $10 lifetime pass for free first-come campsites at the Kern River Campground and Buena Vista Aquatic Recreational Area. Discounted reservations are by phone only.

Any service-connected rating, or a former POW. A VA letter showing service-connected status at any rating, or former prisoner of war status.

Kern County's Veterans Service Department in Bakersfield helps veterans and families with VA and CalVet claims and issues the veteran status verification the DMV needs for the VETERAN designation on a driver licence. Visits are by appointment; call 661-868-7300.

Veterans and families. Any veteran, dependent or survivor can use the office. No rating is needed.

The Kerr County Clerk, 700 Main Street, Suite 122, Kerrville (830-792-2255), gives copies of a military discharge recorded with the county on its request form, which asks the requester's relationship, purpose and driver's licence and a copy of their ID; recording a discharge and certified copies for the veteran are free under State law.

Any veteran; copies to the people 552.140 lists. Recording and certified copies for the veteran are free; no rating is needed.

Keya Paha County’s section 80-102 Veterans Aid Fund has held $1,480.86 since at least July 2023 with no levy, no receipts and no payments; Keya Paha County veterans apply through Brown County’s officer in Ainsworth, and 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 Keya Paha County, and need the committee assesses; the county page’s wartime test no longer applies. No rating is required.

Kimball County’s weekday Veterans Service Office in the Kimball courthouse, staffed by a full-time county program coordinator, Darcee Wheeland, and served by Scotts Bluff County’s Veterans Service Officer Matthew Meyers under contract, helps veterans and families obtain local, State and federal benefits and pays for an honor guard and grave markers.

Any Kimball County veteran or family member. Claims help and benefits counselling need no rating; the rating filter never hides this entry.

Kimball County’s section 80-102 Veteran’s Aid fund, refilled with $2,500 a year from the general fund, paid $2,975 in 2024-2025 and keeps a $2,500 petty cash fund, set up on July 2, 2024, so the office can pay veterans’ aid without waiting for the Board’s claims.

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

The Kimble County and District Clerk (Karen E. Page, 105 Reid Road, Junction, 325-446-3353) lists "MILITARY DISCHARGE (DD214) - NO CHARGE" on its recording fees as of January 1, 2024; the free filing (Local Government Code 192.002), free certified copy (Government Code 603.003) and 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 Kimble County Commissioners Court (County Judge Hal A. Rose) reappointed three members of the county's Veterans Land Board for two-year terms from January 1, 2026, and on September 4, 2026 passed a 2027 budget that keeps the part-time veterans office at $14,340; 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.

King County Archives gives a veteran free copies of a DD-214 recorded in the county, on photo ID. A relative or representative must first record a Request for Access form with the Recorder, then take it to the Archives. DD-214s recorded since 1976 are indexed in the Recorder's online portal without images.

The veteran, or a relative or representative with a recorded request. Free copies for the veteran on ID; others record a Request for Access first. No rating is needed.

King County District Court's Regional Veterans Court takes any veteran eligible for VA health care with a behavioural health disorder VA can treat, combat or not, on county and city cases. Misdemeanors prosecuted by the county can be referred by anyone at any stage; felonies and city cases need the prosecutor's referral.

Eligible for VA health care, with a treatable behavioural health disorder. Any veteran eligible for VA health care, combat or not. No rating is needed.

King County's veterans programme gives veterans of any discharge, service members and their families in the county emergency help with food, rent, utilities, medical costs and more, housing and job help, legal help and burial costs, from offices in Seattle (Northgate) and Tukwila. Walk in or call 206-263-8387.

Veteran of any discharge, service member or family, living in King County. Any discharge type and one day of service; some services are income-tested. No rating is needed.

King William taxes tangible personal property at a combined $3.50 per $100 for 2026 (general-fund $1.50 for West Point owners, down $0.15), and applies the statewide one-vehicle exemption through the Commissioner of the Revenue.

100% permanent and total. One owned motor vehicle used mainly by or for the veteran. King William accepts the 100% service-connected, permanent and total test; the county publishes no narrower rule. One path is a VA rating of 100% that is service-connected, permanent, and total.

King William charges a $30.00 annual vehicle license fee ($25.00 motorcycle or moped) due December 5, and the Commissioner waives one fee annually for a veteran rated 100% service-connected, permanent and total whose application for the constitutional exemption has been accepted.

Kings County's Collaborative Justice Treatment Court runs a Veterans Court beside its drug and co-occurring courts, with Judge Jennifer Giuliani, Probation, the District Attorney, defence counsel, Behavioral Health, VA and Kings View: a voluntary programme of regular court appearances, weekly counselling and testing.

Justice-involved veteran. Voluntary; referral through the criminal case. No rating is needed.

In unincorporated Kings County, an honourably discharged veteran of any branch gets a peddler, solicitor or itinerant vendor licence without paying the fee, on proof of discharge. County Code 15-23.

Honourably discharged veteran. Proof of an honourable discharge from any branch. No rating is needed.

Kings County's Veterans Services Office, joined to the Public Guardian, files VA and CalVet claims and appeals free for veterans with any discharge but dishonourable, dependants, survivors and parents of deceased veterans, from Law Building 4, 1400 W. Lacey Blvd., Hanford. Walk in Monday to Thursday 8:30 to 4, or call 559-852-2669.

Veterans with any discharge but dishonourable, and families. Any veteran, dependant, survivor or parent of a deceased veteran can use the office. No rating is needed.

The Kinney County Clerk (Rick Alvarado, 501 South Ann Street, Brackettville, 830-563-2521 ext. 3) posts no military-discharge line, form or fee schedule; 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 Kinney County Commissioners' Court (County Judge John Paul Schuster) keeps Veterans Day on the county's holiday calendar (approved for FY 2026-2027 on September 14, 2026), took up on October 26, 2026 a request to waive the Community Center's rental fees for a Veterans Day programme hosted by the Fort Clark Historical Society and Brackett ISD, and adopted a 2026-2027 budget with no veterans line; 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.

Kitsap County's Veterans Assistance Fund, run for the county by Kitsap Community Resources, pays up to $3,500 a year toward rent, utilities, food, transport, medical costs and more for veterans and families at or under 200% of the poverty level, plus eviction relief up to $5,000 and burial up to $1,500. A county Veteran Service Officer files VA claims free. The county's manual still limits the fund to honorable discharges.

200% of poverty, 60 days in the county. Household income at or under 200% of the poverty level, assets up to $3,000, 60 days in Kitsap County, 180 days of service; the Manual asks for an honorable discharge where the statute accepts any qualifying discharge. No rating is needed.

Kittitas County's Veterans Advisory Board (William DeHaven, Ruben Cardenas, Ronald Ness, Ed Barry and Russell Colmore, alternates Christopher West and Kristin Ashley, Commissioner Brett Wachsmith chair) meets quarterly on the second Thursday, and the Board of County Commissioners' window carried the October 7, 2025 bylaws-and-membership resolution (R2026-021 re-adopted the bylaws on February 3, 2026) and the 2025 and 2026 Veterans Day proclamations; no benefit was adopted, narrowed or repealed.

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

Klamath County Community Corrections maintains a Drug Court / Veteran's Court specialized supervision team: officers work with a team of judge, defense attorney, prosecutor and treatment providers for offenders eligible for the specialty courts.

Veterans under county supervision eligible for the specialty docket. The team serves offenders eligible for the specialty courts; no rating is required, so the rating filter never hides this benefit.

Klamath County Community Development gives a 10 percent discount on Planning, Building and Onsite services to holders of the county's Veteran Recognition Card, for property owned and occupied by the participating veteran - not rentals or homes built for sale.

Holders of the county Veteran Recognition Card. The discount runs on the county card, not on a rating; recorded so the rating filter never hides this benefit.

The Kleberg County Clerk (Salvador "Sonny" Barrera III, Kingsville, 361-595-8548) lists "Military Discharge Records - NO CHARGE" among its fees and posts mental health links for veterans.

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 Kleberg County Commissioners Court (County Judge Rudy Madrid) heard a presentation on the county's seizure of a veteran's property (March 23, 2026), honoured the commander of the Kleberg County Veteran's Honor Guard (May 4, 2026), heard the Veteran's Office at the July budget workshop and took up an ID card printer for a county Thank a Veteran Program (October 26, 2026); 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 Knox County Board (chair Jared Hawkinson; meetings the fourth Wednesday at 6 p.m. in the Galesburg City Hall Council Chambers, streamed on the county's YouTube channel) carries one veteran item in its window minutes - the May 27, 2026 approval of the budget line-item changes among which 'The VAC also requested a movement and that is in the same boat', the statute-required move of money within the Veterans Assistance Commission's own budget, 'we do not control their budget per se' - and no other veteran item; no benefit was adopted, narrowed or repealed.

No eligibility - a board record. The record documents the county board’s statutory approval of the Veterans Assistance Commission’s own line-item movement; it grants no individual entitlement.

The Knox County Commissioners Court (County Judge Don Thompson) took up appointing Veteran's Officer Jason Doran to the Historical Commission Board on December 8, 2025, approved its 2026-2027 budget, which keeps the County Veteran Office at $7,272, at a September 11, 2026 special meeting, and closes the courthouse on Veterans' Day, Wednesday, November 11, 2026. 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.

The Knox County Recorder (County Clerk-Recorder Scott Erickson, Knox County Courthouse, 200 South Cherry Street, Galesburg, 309-345-3818, fax 309-345-3842) keeps the Military Links page - Honor Rewards for Veterans and the Military Discharge DD-214 application, which releases a discharge copy only to the person named on the record, a dependent, the County Veterans' Service Officer, a representative of the Department of Veterans' Affairs, or a person with written authorization.

Veterans, dependents, the VSO and the DVA. A discharge copy is released to the person named on the record, a dependent, the County Veterans’ Service Officer, a representative of the Department of Veterans’ Affairs, or a person with written authorization from the named person or dependents.

Knox County’s Veterans Service Office in Center, under Veterans Service Officer Kelly Hanvey, helps veterans with VA benefits and medical centre eligibility, registers DD-214s, places grave flag holders and orders Presidential Memorial Certificates; in July 2026 the office brought eighteen of the county’s twenty-two Korean War veterans together at Creighton to be honoured by the State’s director.

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

Knox County's Veterans Services Office in the Knox Central Building in Knoxville helps veterans and dependents file for VA disability compensation, pension with housebound and aid and attendance, health care, education, insurance and burial benefits, and orders replacement discharge papers. It is free and works by appointment; call (865) 215-5645.

Any veteran, dependent or survivor. The office helps veterans and their dependents and survivors with VA claims and records at no cost. No rating is needed.

Knox County's Veterans Treatment Court is a veterans track of the Knox Recovery Court, open since December 2013, for veterans with a Knox County charge and a substance use or mental health diagnosis. Violent offenses are excluded. It takes about 15 to 18 months and costs a one-time $300 fee plus drug screens.

A veteran with a Knox County charge and a treatment need, not violent. Adults with a current Knox County charge and a substance use or mental health diagnosis, entering voluntarily. Charges or past convictions involving a weapon, force, death or serious injury, or a prior violent felony, exclude.

Knox County’s section 80-102 Vet’s Aid fund paid $3,000 of emergency relief in 2024-2025, and the Board moved $3,000 from the general fund in September 2025 to bring it back to $4,500 rather than levy a tax; the county’s page still prints the wartime-era and honorable-only 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 Knox County, and need the committee assesses; the county page’s wartime test no longer applies. No rating is required.

Knox County's wheel tax is $36 a year. A veteran rated one hundred percent permanent and total, or a former prisoner of war, is exempt from all of it, and so is a service member on full-time active duty. A veteran VA certifies as totally disabled whose household income is $21,210 or less is exempt from $30 of it.

One hundred percent permanent and total, service-connected. Section 5-8-102 exempts a veteran with one hundred percent permanent total disability from a service-connected cause, as VA determines it. It is recorded rather than enforced because a former prisoner of war, and a veteran whose vehicle came with a VA adapted-vehicle grant under 38 U.S.C. 3901, are exempt at any rating.

The Knox County and District Clerk (Jeannie Clark, P.O. Box 196, Benjamin; (940) 459-2441) posts 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.

Kootenai County gives a free annual boat launch pass and parking pass to county residents with proof of 100% service-connected disability, under Resolution 2021-124, on a VA Benefit Summary Letter.

100% service-connected. The free pass needs proof of a 100% service-connected disability, by VA Benefit Summary Letter.

The Kootenai County Veterans Treatment Court relies on cooperation among the criminal justice system, VA, veteran service organizations and community treatment agencies; eligibility includes service in the armed forces, a pending misdemeanour or felony case, a dependency or mental health condition, residence in Kootenai County and a DD-214; coordinator Buddy Winters, 208-446-1099.

Justice-involved veteran. The court is for a veteran with a pending misdemeanour or felony case in Kootenai County who volunteers and is accepted. A disability rating is not the test.

Under the 1976 U.S.-Korea tax treaty, Korea may not tax U.S. Social Security paid to a resident, and may not tax a U.S. citizen's military retired pay unless the retiree is a Korean citizen or holds Korean immigrant status.

No rating requirement. The treaty turns on the kind of payment and on citizenship and immigration status, not on any disability percentage.