Miscellaneous

Logan County’s section 80-102 Veterans Aid Fund has grown only on interest to $13,634.57 (July 2026), paying nothing in 2024-2025 or 2025-2026, and budgets all of it for medical and hospital aid in 2026-2027; the county keeps a $1,000 veterans’ aid petty cash fund for quick help.

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

Logan County’s part-time Veterans Service Office in the Stapleton courthouse, under Veterans Service Officer Richard Cook - also the county’s highway and weed superintendent - is open Wednesday afternoons in Stapleton and, under a three-county agreement for which Thomas County pays Logan County $7,000 a year and McPherson County $1,700, Tuesday afternoons in the Thedford courthouse and Tuesday mornings in Tryon; Mr. Cook also helps veterans from Lincoln County.

Any veteran or dependent in Logan, Thomas or McPherson County. Claims help needs no rating; the rating filter never hides this entry.

The Logan County Board of Commissioners (three members; the window's 88 weekly agendas of 2025 and 2026) carried the veteran items: the weekly 'Veteran Flag Ceremony'/'Veteran Flag Presentation' honoring a named veteran of a named branch - Ray Prater, Robert Hume, Jerry Walker, Ray Stamm, Suzi Tapp, Rick Payne, Ashley Moore, Danny Kneisly, Rodney Burnside, Jerry Culp, Roger Tapp, Larry Poe, Vic Dodds and David Blue among them - the November 17, 2025 Shelley Kneece Veteran Services Budget Hearing, the Veterans Day closure of November 10, 2025, and the Belle Center Veterans Memorial Ribbon Cutting of July 6, 2026; no benefit was adopted, narrowed or repealed.

No eligibility - a board record. The record documents the county’s veterans honours and budget cycle; it grants no individual entitlement.

The Logan County Recorder (Patricia A. Myers, 100 S. Madriver St., Bellefontaine, 937-599-7201, weekdays 8 to 4:30) records DD-214s free and issues a United States Veteran Document Identification Card for $1.00 - 'I encourage you to take advantage of the services we offer our veterans by recording your DD214 for free and obtaining a United States Veteran Document Identification Card for only $1.00' - with Wednesday the day Veteran ID cards are issued.

Any veteran with a discharge. Recording a DD-214 is free at the Recorder under ORC 317.24, and the veteran ID card costs $1.00. No rating is needed.

The Long County Board of Commissioners - Chairman Jeremy Hall, Vice Chairman Gerald Blocker, Commissioners Benji Strickland, John Reddish and James Craft, with County Manager Shane Richardson and County Clerk Brandi Smiley, at 468 S. McDonald Street, Ludowici - posts its agendas and minutes on the county's own agenda and minutes pages; the 2020-2026 record - 118 files read whole, the scanned years through OCR - carries no veteran item beyond the November 2025 notes that moved the regular meeting off November 11 "Veterans Day Holiday" to November 21, and the county's own pages name no veterans organization.

No eligibility - a board record. The record documents the board’s posted 2020-2026 files and their silence; it grants no individual entitlement.

The Long County Clerk of Superior Court - Sherry McFann Long (elected 2013), 458 So. McDonald Street, P.O. Box 458, Ludowici, GA 31316 (912-545-2123, fax 912-545-2020, 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Monday to Thursday and 8:00 a.m. to 4:40 p.m. Friday, closed 12:00 to 1:00 for lunch; Chief Deputy Joannie Poole) - is the county's recorder of military discharges under O.C.G.A. 15-6-72 and 15-6-78, per the Cooperative Authority's clerk directory; the county's own pages publish 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 Long County Tax Commissioner - Becky Fowler, P.O. Box 628, 285 South McDonald Street, Ludowici, GA 31316 (912-545-2127, [email protected], longcountytax.com) - and the Board of Tax Assessors (285 S McDonald St, 912-545-9111, [email protected]) take the homestead applications, the disabled-veteran exemptions included; the tax site is a script-rendered app read in a browser session and publishes no exemption text of its own, so the O.C.G.A. 48-5-48 and 48-5-52.1 amounts ride on the State entries.

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 offices take the application and post no amounts of their own. The rating filter never hides this entry.

The Recorder records a DD-214 or NGB-22 free, with free certified copies, and issues a veteran ID card good for ten years without an appointment, but offers the card only to "honorably discharged veterans", where the statute bars only a dishonorable discharge.

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 Recorder says honorable. No rating is needed.

Temporary help with rent, mortgage, property tax, utilities, car payments and repairs, insurance, food and personal items for a Lorain County veteran or surviving spouse after 90 days in the county who shows a hardship, by appointment, decided within about 30 days. The page leaves out the other family members the statute covers.

Discharge under honorable conditions, 90 days in the county. A veteran discharged under honorable conditions with active duty other than training, or a family member the statute covers, resident 90 days. The page names only veterans and widows. No rating is needed.

Wills, trusts, powers of attorney, guardianship, deeds, leases, record sealing and some civil cases, done by Lorain County veteran-owned law firms at the commission's cost, for a veteran with an honorable or general discharge, a spouse or surviving spouse, or a dependent child, after 90 days in the county and with household AGI below $200,000.

Honorable or general discharge, household AGI below $200,000. A veteran with an honorable or general discharge, or a spouse, surviving spouse or dependent child, resident 90 days, with household AGI below $200,000. No rating is needed.

Lorain County's Veterans Treatment Court, a certified felony docket led since September 2013 by Judge James T. Walther, holds weekly status hearings with a team that includes a VA justice outreach specialist, a Vet Center counsellor, peer mentors and a Veterans Service Commission coordinator.

A veteran charged with a felony. A veteran with a felony case in Lorain County and a treatment need, accepted by the court. No rating is needed.

The county veterans service office: free help with VA compensation, pension, education, health care and burial claims and the CalVet College Fee Waiver, the Veteran Peer Access Network, and since December 2025 a housing navigation programme for homeless and justice-involved veterans.

Veterans, service members and families. Claims help is for veterans, former members eligible for a federal benefit, and their dependents. No rating is needed.

No parking fee at a county-owned or county-operated lot that takes a meter or an attendant, for a vehicle with a disabled veteran, Pearl Harbor survivor, Medal of Honor, Distinguished Service Cross, former POW or Purple Heart plate, on weekdays and on Veterans Day. Lots controlled only by automated gates are excluded.

Qualifying special plate. The vehicle must display one of the named veteran plates. The Disabled Veteran plate itself has its own State eligibility test.

A spayed or neutered dog licensed with the county costs a disabled veteran $7.50 instead of $20. Any service-connected disability counts. Cities with their own animal services set their own fees.

Any service-connected disability. The county definition needs a disability incurred or aggravated in service, with no minimum percentage.

A Superior Court collaborative court that diverts veterans charged with felonies, before or after conviction, into a VA-supervised treatment programme of three to five years, after which the case can be dismissed.

Veteran charged with a felony. The court takes veterans with a felony case and a service-related condition who pass a VA suitability evaluation. A disability rating is not the test.

A lower 2026 vehicle tax rate of $1.50 per $100 on one car or pickup for a permanently and totally disabled owner who is under the income and net-worth caps.

Permanent and total disability. The owner, or a spouse who owns the vehicle, has to be permanently and totally disabled as of December 31 of the prior year, or age 65. A VA rating by itself is not the test.

Loudoun sets a 2026 personal property rate of $0.00 per $100 on one vehicle for a veteran in the class in Code section 58.1-3506(A)(19): limb loss, blindness, or permanent and total disability, each on its own.

Permanent and total, as certified by DVS. One route in Code of Virginia § 58.1-3506(A)(19): permanently and totally disabled as certified by the Department of Veterans Services. The statute names no percentage. The Loudoun 2026 rate for the class is $0.00 per $100 on one vehicle.

Loudoun coordinates a referral hub for veterans who live in the county, covering benefits, employment, and training. It does not decide a VA claim or pay a benefit.

A General District Court treatment docket for a justice-involved veteran who lives in Loudoun and has a serious mental illness or a co-occurring disorder.

Justice-involved veteran. The docket is for a Loudoun defendant with qualifying military service and a serious mental illness or co-occurring disorder. A disability rating is not the test. The county release says additional criteria may apply.

No Louisa County $38.75 vehicle license tax on one vehicle of a veteran with Disabled Veteran plates, at any rating, or on a vehicle of a National Guard member with Guard plates.

Disabled Veteran plates, any service-connected rating. One vehicle of a veteran issued Disabled Veteran plates, which DMV issues for any service-connected rating. Guard plate holders are also exempt.

Louisa County Code 70-239 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, beyond the statewide 100% exemption. The county’s page and form describe only the 100% exemption.

100% permanent and total. The statewide exemption: one car or pickup used mainly by or for the veteran. One path is a VA rating of 100% that is service-connected, permanent, and total.

A veteran or military retiree moving to Louisiana pays $90 in state and local vehicle use tax instead of the full amount, on one primary personal vehicle, if it is registered within 90 days of the move.

Registered within 90 days of moving to Louisiana. The vehicle must be registered within 90 days of the move. This is the condition most often missed, and it cannot be recovered afterwards. No disability rating applies, so the rating filter never hides this benefit.

A 25% discount on automobile liability insurance for military retirees and veterans at 50% disability or more, on any policy purchased in Louisiana. The carrier decides whether to grant it.

50% or more on the disabled veteran path. The disabled veteran path requires a disability of 50 percent or more. This gate is not enforced in the rating filter because retired military members are named as an independent qualifying group with no rating at all.

At 50% a veteran gets a free Louisiana driver license or ID and a free specialty plate with mobility-impaired parking privileges. At 100% the license adds a Disabled American Veteran designation.

Service-connected rating of 50% or more. The free license or ID and the free plate both open at 50 percent. Fifty percent is where most of Louisiana's veteran benefits begin, which is lower than any other state in this catalog. A veteran who crosses from 40 to 50 percent should re-read the whole Louisiana list rather than just this entry.

Free hunting and fishing licenses at a permanent 50% service-connected rating, and Louisiana grants this to nonresidents too. A private foundation pays the fee, and the license still has to be renewed every year.

Service-connected rating of 50% or more. The license is free at a permanent 50 percent classification. Fifty percent is where most of Louisiana's veteran benefits begin, which is lower than any other state in this catalog. A veteran who crosses from 40 to 50 percent should re-read the whole Louisiana list rather than just this entry.

State officials furnish certified birth, marriage and death certificates free when required for VA benefits, and a clerk of court records a discharge free and keeps it confidential rather than public.

Records required for a VA benefit. The fee waiver under R.S. 29:263 attaches to the purpose: the certified copy must be required for VA benefits. No disability rating is involved, so the rating filter never hides this benefit.

Up to $10,000 for one need-based claim in a 12-month period, for housing, utilities, some medical care and other essential expenses. It is funded by private donations and reviewed monthly, so it is not fast money.

Honorable or under honorable conditions discharge, and Louisiana residency. A veteran with a discharge of honorable or under honorable conditions, or a current Louisiana National Guard or Reserves member in good standing, who is a current Louisiana resident. No disability rating is required, so the rating filter never hides this benefit.

Federal retirement benefits, military retired pay and military Survivor Benefit Plan annuities are all excluded from Louisiana income tax. The general rate is now a flat 3%, and 120 days stationed out of state deducts $30,000.

No rating and no age test on military retired pay. The Federal Retirement Benefits Exclusion carries no disability rating requirement, no age floor, and no dollar cap, and it reaches military survivor benefit plan annuities as well. The rating filter never hides this benefit.

A disabled veteran with a State Park Permit enters every Louisiana park free, and so does everyone riding in the same private vehicle. Active duty get 50% off day use and military families 15% off rentals.

A State Park Permit obtained through a parish veterans service office. The free admission runs on a State Park Permit, which is applied for at the local parish veterans service office rather than at a park. The Louisiana Department of Veterans Affairs sets the qualifying rating at 50 percent or greater. Other rates in this entry carry no rating at all, so the rating filter never hides this benefit.

A disabled veteran pays no tolls on state ferries and bridges and no fees at state parking facilities, plus free airport parking at 50%. The Crescent City Connection is excepted from the toll exemption.

50% or more for airport and cruise terminal parking. The Louisiana Department of Veterans Affairs administers the airport parking program at a service-connected rating of at least 50 percent, and R.S. 29:27.2 sets 50 percent for the cruise terminal. This gate is not enforced in the rating filter because the underlying toll and state parking exemption in R.S. 29:27 names no percentage at all.

A state medal whose ribbon colour records the circumstance: blue for an honorable discharge, purple for a Purple Heart, black for a prisoner of war, yellow for killed in action. One medal per veteran.

Louisiana residency now, at entry into service, or at death. Any one of the three moments satisfies the residency test, so a veteran who enlisted from Louisiana and left, or who arrived after service, qualifies. No disability rating is involved, so the rating filter never hides this benefit.

Loup County keeps no section 80-102 veterans aid fund and budgets no aid line; its only veterans line is the $3,000 a year it pays Custer County’s officer, Emory Haynes, through whom Loup County veterans apply.

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

The Lowndes County Chancery Clerk, Cindy Goode, 505 2nd Avenue North, Columbus (662-329-5800), records military discharges (DD-214s); State law makes recording and certified copies free for a county resident.

Any county resident with a discharge. Recording an honorable discharge and certified copies are free under Section 35-3-13. No rating is needed.

The Lubbock County Clerk, Kelly Pinion, keeps the county's records 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's site has no discharge page and publishes no fee schedule, 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.

In Lucas County the Veterans Service Commission, not the Recorder, issues the Ohio veterans ID card, free, weekdays at its office, on a photo ID, an Ohio address and the DD-214. The statute also requires the discharge to be recorded with the County Recorder first, which is free.

A recorded discharge that is not dishonorable. A veteran whose discharge is recorded with the county and is not dishonorable, with a photo ID and an Ohio address. No rating is needed.

Temporary help with rent, mortgage, utilities, food vouchers, prescriptions, car payments and repairs, medical bills and emergency home repairs for a Lucas County veteran or family after three months in the county, through an investigator by appointment. The commission's brochure still asks for an honorable discharge.

Discharge under honorable conditions, three months in the county. A veteran discharged under honorable conditions with active duty other than training, an active-duty member, or their family as 5901.08 lists, resident three months. The brochure says honorable. No rating is needed.

The Lumpkin County Board of Commissioners - Chairman Rhett Stringer, District 1 Commissioner Tucker Greene, District 2 Commissioner Dr. Bobby Mayfield, District 3 Commissioner Nathan Davis and District 4 Commissioner Jeff Moran, meeting in the Commissioners Boardroom at 99 Courthouse Hill, Dahlonega (work sessions the first Tuesday at 4 p.m. and the third at 5:30 p.m., regular meetings the third Tuesday at 6 p.m.) - carries the county's Veterans Affairs Committee appointments and the Veterans Memorial Cemetery record through its 2025-2026 agendas and minutes, 190 files read whole; American Legion Post 239 sits on Legion Road in Dahlonega.

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

The Lumpkin County Clerk of Superior Court - Rita Harkins, 325 Riley Road, Room 108, Dahlonega, GA 30533 (706-864-3736, fax 706-864-5298, weekdays 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.) - is the county's recorder of military discharges under O.C.G.A. 15-6-72 and 15-6-78; the clerk's own page lists the office's four divisions but 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 Lumpkin County Tax Commissioner - Mike Young, 99 Courthouse Hill, Suite E, Dahlonega, GA 30533 (706-864-2666, fax 706-867-6010, weekdays 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. with the office closed 1:00 to 1:30 for lunch, lumpkincountytax.com) - takes the homestead applications at the Board of Tax Assessors: "An applicant seeking a homestead exemption shall file a written application with the Lumpkin County Board of Tax Assessors ... up to and including the date for the closing of the books, which is April 1 for Lumpkin County"; the site publishes no amounts of its own, so the O.C.G.A. 48-5-48 and 48-5-52.1 amounts ride on the State entries.

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 offices take the application and post no amounts of their own. The rating filter never hides this entry.

Luzerne County Veteran Affairs, at 61-63 Water Street in Wilkes-Barre with an annex in Hazleton, is the county director of veterans affairs' office: it files VA compensation, pension and survivors' claims, pays the county burial allowance, helps order government headstones and takes the State tax exemption and temporary assistance applications. By appointment, 570-706-3960.

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

Luzerne County's Veterans Treatment Court is a judicially supervised treatment programme that diverts veterans whose untreated PTSD, brain injury or substance use led to criminal charges, linking them with treatment, benefits and a veteran mentor. The court publishes no eligibility rules.

A veteran with a Luzerne County criminal case. The court publishes no eligibility rules. No rating is needed.

Lycoming County's Office of Veterans Affairs, Third Street Plaza, 2nd floor, 33 West Third Street, Williamsport, gives free help with veterans benefits by appointment Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday, with walk-ins on Wednesday from 9 to 4; 570-327-2365.

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

Lycoming County's Veterans Court, one of the treatment courts run through Adult Probation, takes applications from veterans and active-duty members with pending charges on the county's Veterans Court application, reviewed by the Veterans Court Committee; Adult Probation, 48 West Third Street, Williamsport, 570-327-2385.

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.

The Lynn County Clerk (Karen Rendon, 1501 South 1st Street, Tahoka; P.O. Box 937; (806) 561-4750) lists "Military Discharge (DD214)" filing (Local Government Code 192.002(b)) and certified copy (Government Code 603.003(a)) at "No Charge" on its filing fee schedule effective January 1, 2024; the confidentiality (Government Code 552.140) is 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 Lynn County Commissioners' Court (County Judge Mike Braddock) adopted its 2026-2027 budget unchanged on September 28, 2026, with no veterans department, and on September 21, 2026 approved a 2027 holiday calendar that closes the county on Veteran's Day, Thursday, November 11, 2027; none of the year's agendas or minutes names a veterans item. 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 Lyon County Recorder records and indexes documents under state law, with a self-service screen that can email an owner when a document is recorded in their name or parcel. NRS 419.020 makes recording an honorable discharge free, but the Recorder's July 1, 2024 fee schedule lists no discharge line, and its recording requirements page omits the statutory exception a discharge has from the format rules.

Certificate of honorable discharge. NRS 419.020 makes recording an honorable discharge free. No rating is needed.

The County Clerk records a DD-214 by appointment and gives certified copies free. It releases them only to the veteran or the heirs, where MCL 35.32 also lets anyone with the veteran's permission and a service officer working a claim see the record.

The veteran or the heirs. Free copies for the veteran and heirs with proof of death and relationship; the statute adds anyone with permission and service officers. No rating is needed.

Macomb County's relief fund gives one-off grants for evictions, shut-offs, car repairs and similar emergencies. It takes a discharge under honorable conditions, a single day of wartime active duty or 24 months in peacetime, and six months' residence, which is wider than the State statute's honorable, wartime-only test.

A temporary emergency the grant will resolve. The grant must resolve a temporary financial emergency the applicant can manage afterwards. No rating is needed.