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.
Macomb County's department of veterans affairs files VA claims free, runs the county relief fund and burial allowance, a free tax preparation site and financial coaching, and is paid for entirely by a 0.069 mill veterans' millage that expires with the 2026 levy. A four-year renewal is on the November 3, 2026 ballot.
Any veteran or family member. Claims help is free to any veteran, survivor or dependent. The relief fund and burial allowance have their own tests. No rating is needed.
The 16th Circuit Court has run a veterans' treatment court for felony cases since 2012, an 18 to 24 month programme with veteran mentors that can end in a reduced or dismissed charge. The 41B District Court in Clinton Township runs its own, and the 45th District Court in Oak Park runs a regional one that serves Macomb.
Discharge other than dishonorable and a pending case. A veteran with a discharge other than dishonorable and a pending case, whose offense is connected to a service-related condition; the statute adds 180 days of active duty. No rating is needed.
The Macon County Board of Commissioners (Joshua Young chair, Gary Shields vice chair, John Shearl, Danny Antoine, Barry Breeden; County Manager Warren Cabe) adopted Operation Green Light resolutions on October 14, 2025 and October 13, 2026 (declaring November 4-11, 2026), funded the Blue Ridge Honor Flight with a 500 dollar special-funds amendment (September 8, 2026), heard the Veterans Memorial of Macon County Committee's maintenance report (July 14, 2026), and carried a 215,023 dollar FY2027 Veterans Services department; no benefit was adopted, narrowed or repealed.
No eligibility - a board record. The record documents the county’s veterans recognition and administration; it grants no individual entitlement.
The Macon County Recorder of Deeds, Sherry Muncy, 101 E. Washington Street, Building 3, Suite 300, Macon (660-385-2732), records a DD-214 or other military discharge free of charge and certifies a copy free for an authorized person on the Recorders Association of Missouri's notarized request, under RSMo 59.480.
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 Macon County Register of Deeds (Todd Raby, Macon County Courthouse, 5 West Main Street, Franklin, 828-349-2097) records DD-214 discharges and issues certified copies at no fee to veterans or widow/widower, and its FAQ notes the records' restriction - “The only records with restricted access are military discharges due to the sensitive nature of these documents.”
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.
The Macoupin County Clerk & Recorder (Pete Duncan, the county's 27th clerk and recorder, elected 2010 at age 24) records military discharges at the courthouse, 201 E. Main, 1st Floor, Carlinville (P.O. Box 107; 217-854-3214): certified copies are issued free - 'There is no charge for certified copies issued' - to the veteran or the listed next of kin (a surviving spouse who has not remarried, father, mother, son, daughter, sister or brother) on the state-required request form, and the office publishes a searchable public index of discharges filed sixty-two years or longer ago.
The veteran or the listed next of kin. Certified copies of recorded discharges go free to the veteran or to a surviving spouse who has not remarried, father, mother, son, daughter, sister or brother, on the state’s request form. The rating filter never hides this entry.
Madera County charges a qualifying veteran no unincorporated-county business licence fee: Code section 5.04.190 exempts every honorably discharged veteran who qualifies under Business and Professions Code section 16102 from the licence fee itself, keeps the application requirement, and refers every claim to the county's Veterans Service Office for investigation and recommendation.
Veterans under Business and Professions Code 16102. Discharge under honorable conditions and ownership of the goods sold are the tests; the ordinance names section 16102. No rating is needed; the licence application must still be filed.
The Madera County Recorder records military discharge papers as a document type of its office (hours 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday to Friday, 559-675-7724, and the Veterans Service Office will help record a DD-214), and prices no discharge recording on its fee pages, so the free recording rests on the State's no-fee rule.
Any veteran with a discharge. Recording is free by State law. No rating is needed.
By Resolution No. 2026-032 of March 10, 2026 the Madera County Board of Supervisors approved a permanent veterans monument at the Social Services campus in front of the Veterans Service Office and authorised fundraising up to $25,000 - 250 engraved bricks at $100 each, laid as the monument's planter-box wall, toward a $20,227 project of six bronze military-branch emblems, a two-by-three-foot bronze dedication plaque and a custom wrought iron frame.
All who served. The monument honours every military service member; a brick may be bought for any of them. No rating is needed.
The Madera Superior Court runs a Veterans' Treatment Court: its own staff pages name Judge D. Lynn Collet as the Presiding Judge of the Behavioral Health Court, the Veterans' Treatment Court and the Appellate Department, hearing all those matters from Department 40, and the court's local rules print the title on their cover.
Veteran with a case in the Madera Superior Court. The court publishes no eligibility rules; referral is through the case. No rating is needed.
Madison County budgeted county veterans aid under section 80-102 for the first time in 2025-2026 - $6,000, after a draft figure of $60,000 was corrected as a typing error - and paid the whole $6,000 to its Veterans Office in October 2025; the county’s own page names only the State’s aid fund.
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 Madison County, and need the committee assesses. No rating is required.
Madison County’s Veterans Service Office in its own building at 1305 S. 13th Street in Norfolk, under Veterans Service Officer Gregg Hanson, helps veterans, widows and families with federal, state and county benefits, orders grave markers and keeps the county on the State’s VetraSpec claims database.
Any Madison County veteran, widow or family member. Claims help needs no rating; the rating filter never hides this entry.
The Madison County Board of Commissioners - Chairman Todd Higdon (a full-time chairman, 706-795-6301, [email protected]) with District 1 Dennis Adams, District 2 Terry Chandler, District 3 Frank May, District 4 Brian Kirk and District 5 Derek Doster, meeting at the Government Complex in Danielsville with County Clerk Christina Baxter and County Attorney Michael C. Pruett - whose 2025-2026 record (134 agenda-setting work sessions, regular board meetings, budget work sessions and public hearings posted to the county's own Drive links, read whole) names no veteran item; the Department of Georgia's post list names no American Legion post in Madison County.
No eligibility - a board record. The record documents the board’s posted 2025-2026 files and the absence of a county American Legion post; it grants no individual entitlement.
The Madison County Board of Commissioners - Dr. Tony Xenikis, Chris Wallace and Brendan Shea, with County Administrator Rob Slane and Clerk to the Board Amy Rees - carried the window's veteran items on its posted monthly resolutions: April 2026's Resolutions 234-26 and 241-26, each 'a Transfer of Funds for the Madison County Veterans Service Commission' presented for Director Jennifer Moore, September 2026's Resolution 409-26 approving the purchase of a vehicle through the DAV Transportation Network Program, October 2026's Resolution 421-26 adjusting appropriations within the Veterans Service Commission budget, and the June 2026 check register's VETS-fund warrants led by American Legion Post #201 at 500.00 dollars.
No eligibility - a board record. The record documents the fund transfers, the DAV vehicle purchase and the VETS-fund warrants; it grants no individual entitlement.
The Madison County Clerk of Court - Katie Cross, Superior Court, 91 Albany Ave., P.O. Box 247, Danielsville (706-795-6310, fax 706-795-2209) - is the county's recorder of military discharges under O.C.G.A. 15-6-72 and 15-6-78; the clerk's own site (read through the January 20, 2026 Internet Archive capture after the live site began answering a Cloudflare-style block to plain fetch) carries the office's services and court links and prints 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 Madison County Clerk (Adrian Lawson, 103 W. Trinity Street, Suite 104, Madisonville, 936-241-6210) lists "Military Discharge (DD214)" filing and certified copies at no charge on its fee schedule effective January 1, 2025.
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 Madison County Commissioners Court (County Judge Clark Osborne) took monthly Veterans Affairs reports, heard of the build-out of a new veterans office in the old Juvenile Probation space (August and September 2025), approved its 2026 holiday schedule "with the correction of Veteran’s Day" (September 23, 2025) and an equipment rental for Veteran’s Services (October 28, 2025), and adopted an FY2027 budget with $69,340.82 for the office; 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 Madison County Probate Judge records a DD-214 free and gives one free certified copy at recording, then charges $2 for each later certified copy. The State law as the Alabama Department of Veterans Affairs states it makes copies free to the veteran and the other people it lists.
Any veteran resident in Madison County. Recording is free. No rating is needed.
The Madison County Recorder (Rachel Fisher, 1 N. Main St., Room 40, London; 740-852-1854, fax 740-845-1776, recording 8:00 to 3:30) records a DD Form 214 at no fee - 'There is never a fee for recording a military discharge record or for certified copies for authorized parties' - and keeps the record out of the public under Revised Code 317.24: copies go only to authorized parties with identification, in person, and a non-authorized copy is redacted and charged two dollars a page until seventy-five years after recording.
Any veteran with a discharge to record. Recording a DD Form 214 and certified copies for authorized parties carry no fee, and the record is withheld from the public under Revised Code 317.24. No rating is needed.
The Madison County Recorder records a veteran's DD-214 free, returns the original with a recorded copy, gives free certified copies to the veteran and the persons IC 10-17-2 names, and signs recorded veterans up for the Honor Rewards discount card; 16 E 9th Street, Suite 205, Anderson, (765) 641-9613.
Any veteran. Recording a discharge is free and no rating is needed. The rating filter never hides this entry.
The Madison County Clerk and Recorder records a DD-214 free and gives certified copies on a request form with photo ID. Its FAQ says everything it records is public and that DD-214s are only redacted; 55 ILCS 5/3-5015 makes a recorded discharge closed to public inspection, open only to the veteran, dependents, a service officer, VA or someone the veteran authorises.
Veterans, dependents and authorised requesters. Recording a DD-214 is free. No rating is needed.
Madison County's Register of Deeds (Angie Byers) keeps and indexes military discharges among the office's recorded documents, on the first floor of the County Courthouse, 100 E. Main Street, Suite 109, Jackson.
Any veteran with a discharge. Recording and a certified copy are free under the State statutes; the office records and keeps military discharges.
The Madison County Tax Commissioner - Lamar Dalton ([email protected], 706-795-6391), 91 Albany Ave., Suite 14, Danielsville (P.O. Box 217) - takes homestead applications through the Property Valuation office January 1 to April 1 per the county's own 2025 Taxpayer Brochure, which carries the round's fullest printed veteran amounts: "Disabled Veterans Homestead Exemption is available to certain disabled veterans in an amount up to $121,812", extended to "the un-remarried surviving spouse or minor children", and "The Un-Remarried Surviving Spouse of a Disabled Veteran Exemption shall be granted in an amount up to $121,812 from all ad valorem taxes levied, if such person's spouse, who as a member of the armed forces of the United States, was killed or died as a result of any war or armed conflict. Documents from the Secretary of Defense must be provided stating that spousal benefits are received as a result of the death."
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 at the amounts the county’s own brochure prints; the assessor’s office takes the application by April 1. The rating filter never hides this entry.
Madison County has an active veterans court, one of 28 on the Alabama Administrative Office of Courts’ 2026 map. Neither the court system nor the County publishes its eligibility rules online; ask a defence lawyer or the Madison County Veterans Service Office.
Veteran with a criminal case in Madison County. Eligibility is set by the court and is not published. No rating is needed.
Madison County's own financial-assistance test: 'You must have a General Under Honorable Conditions, Honorable or be receiving a VA service connected disability entitlement to be eligible and be a resident in Madison County for at least 90 days' - with the DD Form 214 (long form) and residency identification shown in person before an appointment is made, and help aimed at 'basic household needs', all else 'on a case by case basis'.
Honorable or General Under Honorable Conditions discharge, or VA service-connected entitlement, and 90 days in the county. The county page’s own three-door test with ninety days of residency shown by identification; the DD Form 214 long form or equivalent is required in person.
The Alabama Department of Veterans Affairs’ office for Madison County is at 819 Cook Avenue NW in Huntsville. It gives free help with VA claims, appeals, survivor benefits and state benefits. Call 256-532-1662.
The Third Judicial Circuit's Madison County Veterans' Court in Edwardsville takes misdemeanor and felony cases of veterans whose PTSD, mental health or substance problems stem from their service, with the VA, the Public Defender, the State's Attorney and Probation on its team. It is certified by the Illinois Supreme Court's problem-solving court office.
Veteran charged with a crime, with a service-related treatment need. The court looks for PTSD, mental health or substance problems from service. No rating is needed.
Judge Anthony D'Apolito's veterans treatment docket in the Mahoning County Court of Common Pleas, certified by the Supreme Court of Ohio, funded through the county's grants and the Mental Health and Recovery Board, while Youngstown Municipal Court certifies no veterans docket of its own.
A veteran with a pending charge and a treatment need. A veteran with an eligible pending charge in the Mahoning County Common Pleas Court asks the judge, lawyer or public defender for referral to the certified veterans treatment docket. No rating is needed.
The Recorder records a DD-214 free, redacts the Social Security number, returns the original with a certified copy, and issues a free veteran document identification card on two forms of identification, where the statute would let it charge up to $2.
Any discharge but dishonorable. Recording is free for any discharge; the card is free and needs a recorded discharge that is not dishonorable plus two forms of current identification. No rating is needed.
Temporary help decided weekly, case by case, by the five-member board for a veteran or family with 90 days in Mahoning County, a shown need, and no more than $25,000 of liquid assets, with a winter utility programme beside it and a county burial allowance of up to $600.
Honorable discharge, 90 days in the county. A veteran honorably discharged from active duty other than training, or a spouse, widow, child, parent or dependent of one, resident of Mahoning County for 90 days and of Ohio for three months. No rating is needed.
An annually reviewed winter programme that pays utility bills in the veteran's or spouse's name when household income falls below the guidelines, liquid assets are $25,000 or less, and the household has applied for HEAP, the Ohio Energy Credit and the Home Weatherization Program.
Winter guidelines, $25,000 of liquid assets, and the energy programmes first. Household income below the programme guidelines (not published) and liquid assets of $25,000 or less; bills in the veteran's or spouse's name; HEAP, Ohio Energy Credit and Home Weatherization applications required.
No Bureau of Veterans’ Services field office sits in Sagadahoc County; the Bureau’s itinerant service location at Brunswick reaches the county, and claims help otherwise runs from the nearest field office by phone.
Any Sagadahoc County veteran, at the Bureau’s itinerant office or by phone. The Bureau’s service officers help veterans file claims without a rating test, so the rating filter never hides this benefit.
No Bureau of Veterans’ Services field office sits in Piscataquis County; the Bureau’s itinerant service location at Dover-Foxcroft reaches the county, and claims help otherwise runs from the nearest field office by phone.
Any Piscataquis County veteran, at the Bureau’s itinerant office or by phone. The Bureau’s service officers help veterans file claims without a rating test, so the rating filter never hides this benefit.