Miscellaneous

The U.S.-Australia treaty exempts U.S. government pensions from Australian tax only for people not ordinarily resident in Australia, so a U.S. retiree living there gets no treaty exemption for retired pay. U.S. Social Security is taxable only in the United States.

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

Australia's means-tested Service Pension is open to a U.S. veteran of the Second World War, Korea or Vietnam who was in danger from hostile forces in a conflict Australia fought, has lived in Australia continuously for ten years, and is 60 or permanently unable to work. The single maximum is A$1,237.70 a fortnight from September 20, 2026.

Income and assets test. The Service Pension is reduced by income and assets above DVA limits, except for a permanently blind veteran, who gets the maximum rate.

Autauga County's mandatory garbage programme exempts households living only on Social Security, through applications to the County Health Department from September 1 to November 30. From October 1, 2026, Act 2026-506 adds households whose only income is veterans' benefits at or below the poverty level, which the county's forms do not yet say.

Sole income from veterans' benefits. The only household income must be veterans' benefits, at or below the federal poverty level (Autauga has adopted no higher limit). Applied for each year, September 1 to November 30. From October 1, 2026.

Autauga County has an active veterans court on the Alabama Administrative Office of Courts' 2026 map, in the 19th Judicial Circuit; neither the court system nor the county publishes its rules. Ask a defence lawyer, or the Circuit Clerk's office in Prattville, 334-358-6800.

Veteran with a criminal case in Autauga County. Eligibility is set by the court and is not published. No rating is needed.

The Bailey County Clerk (Irene Espinoza, 300 South 1st Street, Suite 200, Muleshoe, 806-272-3044) posts recording fees effective January 1, 2024 ($25 for the first page, $4 for each after) with 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 Bailey County Commissioners Court (County Judge Basil Nash) adopted on September 8, 2026 an FY 2026-2027 budget with no veterans department, and closes county offices on Veteran's Day; none of the 37 sets of minutes of September 2025 to October 2026 names a veterans item or an officer. 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 Baldwin County Board of Commissioners - five district commissioners with the Chair elected by the Board: Kendrick Butts (District 2, Chairman), Scott Little (District 5, Vice Chairman), Emily C. Davis (District 1), Sammy Hall (District 3) and Andrew Strickland (District 4), meeting the 1st and 3rd Tuesday at 6 p.m. at the Government Building, 1601 N. Columbia Street, Suite 230, Milledgeville (478-445-4791) - read its 2025-2026 record whole (97 meeting pages, 244 files): the October 21, 2025 follow-up on Col. Seagraves' request to inscribe the names of the African-American war veterans on the courthouse war monuments, the December 2, 2025 statement Chairman Strickland read thanking veterans with Carlos Tobar's Operation Greenlight, and the June 16, 2026 Mighty Hero Home closing of 22 acres beside the Georgia War Veterans Home; American Legion Posts 6 and 523 meet in Milledgeville.

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

The Baldwin County Clerk of Superior Court - Wanda Paul, elected 2024, Baldwin County Courthouse, 121 N. Wilkinson Street, Suite 209, Milledgeville (P.O. Box 987, 31059-0987; 478-445-4007, fax 478-445-6039, weekdays 8:30 a.m. to 5:00 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 "Armed Force Discharges" among its services, beside Court Records, Deed and Plat Records, Notary Public, Passports and Trade Names.

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.

Baldwin County's mandatory residential garbage service costs $228 a year for weekly pickup. From October 1, 2026, Act 2026-506 exempts a household living only on veterans' benefits below the poverty level, alongside the Social Security exemption the County already approves each quarter. Neither the County nor its Solid Waste Disposal Authority says how to apply.

Sole income from veterans' benefits. The only household income must be veterans' benefits, at or below the federal poverty level (Baldwin has adopted no higher limit). Asked for again each year. From October 1, 2026.

The Baldwin County Tax Commissioner - Kallie C. Kitchings, 1601 N. Columbia St., Suite 100, Milledgeville, GA 31061 (478-445-4813, fax 478-445-0712, weekdays 8:30 a.m. to 4:45 p.m.) - takes the homestead applications the county's Government Window portal routes online; the portal's Property Tax pages render only in JavaScript and publish no exemption text, so the disabled-veteran amounts remain the State's on the O.C.G.A. 48-5-48 and 48-5-52.1 entries, and the Tax Assessor's Office (1601 N. Columbia Street, Suite 120, 478-445-5300) approves the exemptions.

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 the portal publishes no veteran amounts of its own. The rating filter never hides this entry.

The 28th Judicial Circuit's Baldwin County Veterans Court is a voluntary three-phase programme of 18 to 24 months for anyone who has served, with any discharge, facing charges likely tied to substance use or mental health. It is a District Attorney pretrial diversion: participants pay the application fee, first-year court costs and testing and treatment fees, which a hardship affidavit can reduce.

Served, with pending charges and a treatment need. Any service in the armed forces and a pending charge the District Attorney accepts. No rating or discharge test.

The Bandera County Clerk (Tandie Mansfield, 500 Main Street, Bandera, 830-796-3332) files a military discharge and issues a certified copy at no charge, and its fee schedule says the Clerk may waive the assumed name (DBA) filing fees for a veteran under the 2017 law, with proper ID proving veteran status at filing.

Any veteran with a discharge or veteran ID. Discharge filing and certified copies are free under the State statutes; the assumed name waiver is at the Clerk’s discretion with proof of veteran status at filing. No rating is needed.

The Bandera County Commissioners Court (County Judge Richard Evans) let American Legion Post 157 use the courthouse lawn for its 2026 community events (April 9, 2026), accepted Veterans Service Officer Mike Lauricella's 2025 department report (May 14) and adopted an FY2027 budget raising the office to $89,109 (September 10); 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.

Banner County keeps no section 80-102 aid fund and budgets no aid line; its only veterans line is the $3,000 a year it budgets for Scotts Bluff County’s officer in Gering, through whom Banner County veterans apply, and a Banner County Veterans Memorial is planned for the east side of the Harrisburg courthouse.

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

The Bannock County Recorder, in the Clerk's Office at 624 East Center, Room 211, Pocatello (208-236-7340), records a veteran's military discharge papers at no cost, as Idaho Code 65-301 provides; a recorded discharge is not a public record without the veteran's or a survivor's written consent.

Any veteran with a discharge, or a surviving spouse or representative. Recording is free under Idaho Code 65-301; no rating is needed.

The Bannock County Veterans Memorial Building, 300 North Johnson Avenue, Pocatello, is a county building that hosts the veterans service organisations' dinners, the Pearl Harbor and 9/11 observances and Veteran Services' clinics; the county levied $25,000 for the Veterans Memorial in its FY2026 budget after public objection to cutting it.

Veterans organisations and the public. Open to the community; no rating is involved.

The Sixth Judicial District runs a Veterans Treatment Court in Bannock County, Judge Rick Carnaroli presiding, one of its problem-solving courts for non-violent offenders with substance use or mental health problems; coordinator Connie Flatten (the district page gives 208-223-4929 at 130 North 6th Avenue, the Supreme Court list 208-236-7010 at 624 East Center), with one application packet for all its treatment courts.

Justice-involved veteran. For a veteran charged in Bannock County whose case the team accepts; a disability rating is not the test.

The Barron County Board of Supervisors (chair Louis Okey, 29 supervisors; County Clerk Jessica Hodek; Administrator Jeff French) meets in the Government Center's Veterans Memorial Auditorium and carried the 2025-2026 veteran items: the Haugen Auxiliary's $8,000 check to the Veterans Office (presented as $1,000 on November 3, 2025 and corrected on the January 12, 2026 minutes), the Haugen Legion Post's $6,000 unmet-needs check (April 21, 2026), Tom Pichelman's Veterans Service Commission reappointment (November 3, 2025), Shellie Shaw's Veterans Service Officer appointment (February 16, 2026) and Casey Stoeberl's assistant hire (March 17, 2026), the 2026 Veterans Outreach Program's Recognition Ceremony and Benefits Fair at Northwoods Tech in Rice Lake, and the office's budget lines; no benefit was adopted, narrowed or repealed.

The county veteran programmes, funded and minuted. The record shows the county funding and administering its veteran office and commission; no rating is needed to use the office.

The Barrow County Clerk of Superior Court, Suite B, 652 Barrow Park Drive, Winder (770-307-3035), records military discharges (DD-214); the State makes recording free and keeps recorded discharges closed except to the veteran, family and agents, who get copies free, though the Clerk's fee page lists only paid copies.

Any veteran with a discharge. Recording is free; the listed relatives and agents may obtain copies. No rating is needed.

The Barry County Clerk, Sarah M. VanDenburg, 220 W. State Street, Hastings (269-945-1285), records military discharge orders - her office’s service list names them among the filings the office takes - and keeps them confidential under MCL 35.31 to 35.35.

Veteran with a discharge to record. Bring the discharge to the Clerk; the statute keeps it confidential and sets who may get copies. The rating filter never hides this entry.

The Barry County Recorder of Deeds, Danielle Still, 700 Main Street, Suite 6, Cassville (417-847-2914), files and preserves military discharges, keeps them from public search under RSMo 59.480, and gives the veteran or an authorized party a copy "for no additional charge".

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.

Barry County’s Veterans Affairs page routes emergency assistance through the Soldiers & Sailors Relief Fund - "to qualifying honorably discharged, indigent soldiers, sailors, marines, nurses, members of women’s auxiliaries and the indigent wives, widows, and minor children of such indigent or deceased soldier" - and through the Michigan Veterans Trust Fund, both taken at the county veterans office.

Indigent honorably discharged veteran or qualifying dependent. The relief fund statute’s own categories; the county page names them as quoted. The rating filter never hides this entry.

The Bartholomew County Recorder records military discharges, and since January 5, 2021 copies of service-member records recorded with county recorders are requested through the Indiana Department of Veterans Affairs' online system at www.in.gov/dva, which tracks each request and its outcome; the veteran shows photo identification.

Any veteran with a discharge to record or copy. The statute takes any qualifying discharge; the IDVA system gates copies.

Superior Court I (Judge James Worton) oversees the Bartholomew County Veteran's Treatment Court, a certified problem-solving court for veterans in the criminal justice system with service-related substance abuse or mental health issues; referrals go to VTC Coordinator and Chief Probation Officer Brad Barnes, [email protected], at the Court Services Center, 507 3rd Street, Columbus, and the court recruits veteran mentors by application.

Veterans with a pending charge in Bartholomew County. A certified problem-solving court; its own eligibility rules are published nowhere read.

The Barton County Recorder of Deeds, Lisa Cunningham, Courthouse Room 107, 1004 Gulf Street, Lamar (417-682-2110), lists military discharges among the records the office keeps; RSMo 59.480 makes the recording and copies free and limits copies to the veteran or an authorized party, although the page's FAQ calls the office's records public.

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 Bates County Recorder of Deeds, Danyelle Baker, Administration Building, 103 W. Dakota, Room 3, Butler (660-386-7776, option 5), records and files Armed Forces discharge papers free for veterans who live in the county and gives the veteran or an authorized party copies at no added charge.

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 City-Parish runs a Mayor’s Advisory Council on Veterans Affairs that advocates for veterans and families across East Baton Rouge Parish, honours a Veteran of the Week, and holds a Hearts for Heroes ceremony.

Recognition and advocacy, no eligibility. MACVA is an advisory council and recognition program with no benefit attached.

The Bay County Clerk of Court and Comptroller records discharges in the Official Records at the Courthouse in Panama City; section 28.222(3)(d) makes that free to the veteran, though the Clerk's fee page prints only the ordinary $10 first-page charge and its forms page has no DD-214 removal request.

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

The Bay County Tax Collector adds the word Veteran to a licence or ID card at no charge and issues a no-fee licence to a 100% service-connected veteran, but its page asks for an honorable discharge and says "we cannot accept VA cards", where sections 322.14 and 322.051 accept the VA health and Veteran ID cards and set no discharge test, and its fee table omits the $6.25 service fee no veteran owes.

Any veteran for the designation and the service fee; 100% for the free licence. Any veteran, with a DD-214 or a VA health or Veteran ID card, gets the designation and pays no $6.25 service fee; the no-fee licence needs an honorable discharge and a 100% service-connected rating. The rating filter does not hide this entry.

Bay County's Veteran Service Office helps veterans, surviving spouses and children determine eligibility and apply for VA benefits, free, trained and certified by the Florida Department of Veterans' Affairs, from 840 W. 11th Street in Panama City. Call 850-248-8280; appointments have priority over walk-ins.

Veterans, surviving spouses and children. Veterans, their surviving spouses and children. No rating is needed.

Bay County's Board of Commissioners adopted Resolution 2026-102 on June 16, 2026 by voice vote, 7 yeas to none, appropriating $2,850 from General Fund, Fund Balance for 20 gross of 12-by-18-inch flags to mark veterans' graves for Memorial Day 2026, after budget line 10168100-95507 was left unfunded; MCL Act 63 of 1915 authorises counties to provide the flags.

Veterans whose graves are in Bay County. No application; the county provides the flags.

The Baylor County Commissioners Court (County Judge Rusty A. Stafford) takes the Veteran's Officer's report with the other departmental reports at each regular meeting, adopted on September 2, 2026 an FY 2027 budget that keeps the $8,000 veterans service officer line, and closes the county for Veterans Day; it posts no minutes. 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 Baylor County and 50th District Clerk (Chris Jakubicek, 101 S. Washington Street, Seymour, 940-889-3322) posts no recording fee schedule and no military-discharge line or form; 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 Unified Court System lists one veterans treatment court in Dutchess County, the Beacon City Veterans Treatment Court in Beacon City Court, 1 Municipal Plaza, Suite 2, Beacon (845-483-1900), 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 Dutchess County. Every character of discharge is accepted. No rating is needed.

The Beaufort County Board of Commissioners' veteran business for October 2025 to October 2026 is its Operation Green Light for Veterans resolution, adopted unanimously on November 3, 2025 on County Manager Brian Alligood's presentation, which designates Beaufort "a Green Light for Veterans County" through November 11, 2025.

Beaufort County residents. The Board's recognitions and resolutions are not eligibility gates; the rating filter never hides this entry.

The Beaufort County Register of Deeds, Carolyn L. Garris (252-946-2323), records military discharges among the office's documents, with the records index at www.beaufortcountyrod.com.

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

The Beauregard Parish Police Jury (President Mike Harper, Vice-President Eddie Ware, and jurors Dickerson, Meadows, Handy, Montgomery, Shirley, Morgan, Hillebrandt and Bailey; 201 W. 2nd Street, DeRidder, 337-463-7019) holds agenda meetings the first Tuesday and regular meetings the second Tuesday, keeps no standing Veterans Affairs committee, and hosts the LDVA's parish veterans service office in its War Memorial Civic Center under a Cooperative Endeavor Agreement; the jury's window agendas were not retrievable at the round's read.

No eligibility - a jury record. The record documents the parish’s hosting of the veterans service office; it grants no individual entitlement.

Beaver County's Veterans Affairs office, in the Courthouse in Beaver since 1937, is the county director of veterans affairs' office: VA compensation, pension and survivor claims, the State real estate tax exemption and Veterans' Temporary Assistance, the county burial allowance, grave markers and flags, and free discharge recording. Call 724-770-4450.

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

The Beaver County Recorder of Deeds records a DD-214 free and impounds it; the Veterans Affairs office then supplies up to ten free copies, and issues free certified copies of marriage and divorce records to honorably discharged veterans and free Pennsylvania birth and death records for veterans and their dependents.

A Beaver County veteran. Recording and the copies are free. No rating is needed.

The Bedford County Commissioners' year carried the Operation Green Light for Veterans proclamation of November 4-11, 2025, the turn-over of the Veterans Affairs office (Director Gretchen Martin separated January 30, 2026; Theresa Montgomery promoted to Director at $20.193 an hour from February 2, 2026; James D. Francis hired as Veterans Service Officer July 20, 2026), the National POW/MIA Recognition Day proclamation of September 18, 2026, and a 2026 budget of $108,090 for Veterans Affairs with $8,000 for veterans' burial expenses.

No eligibility - a record and budget note. The proclamations honour veterans and the budget funds the office; neither sets an application route. The rating filter never hides this entry.

The Bedford County Register & Recorder (Alyssa N. Miller, Bedford County Courthouse, 200 S. Juliana St., Room 106, Bedford, 814-623-4836) records a soldiers’ discharge for no fee - the Recorder of Deeds fee bill’s own line reads "SOLDIERS DISCHARGE (DD-214) ....FREE" - and the record is confidential under 16 Pa.C.S. Chapter 13.

Veteran with a discharge to record. Record the discharge with the Register & Recorder at no fee; the statute keeps it confidential. The rating filter never hides this entry.

Bedford County’s code exempts outright one vehicle, owned or leased, of a veteran with limb loss, blindness, or a permanent and total service-connected disability certified by the Department of Veterans Services. Limb loss or blindness qualifies at any rating. The county’s page and form describe only the 100% exemption.

Permanent and total, as certified by DVS. One route in County Code § 17-25 and Code of Virginia § 58.1-3506(A)(19). No percentage is named. One vehicle is exempt.

The Bee County Clerk (Michele Bridge, 105 W Corpus Christi Street, Room 108, Beeville, 361-621-1557) 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. Its Recording page notes the clerk's power to waive assumed name fees for a veteran.

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 Bee County Commissioners Court (County Judge George P. Morrill III) put a $50,000 Texas Veterans Commission assistance grant on its June 22, 2026 agenda, adopted a FY2027 budget raising the Veteran Services Office to $98,964 (September 14, 2026), and let the Beeville Garden Club hold its Veterans Day ceremonies on the courthouse grounds; the county posts no minutes, and no benefit was narrowed or repealed.

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

Belknap County government publishes no veteran program, office, discount, ID card or budget line of its own; every benefit that applies in Belknap County is a State or federal entry.

No county eligibility of its own. The county publishes no veteran program; the State entries carry the benefits that apply in Belknap County.

Bell County's veterans county service office in Killeen, by appointment weekdays from 7 a.m.: accredited officers who file VA and Texas claims for veterans and survivors free. Call 254-933-5915, option 1.

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

A veterans treatment court in the 478th District Court since 2015, open to veterans and serving members of the active, reserve and Guard components who live in Bell County. Its application bars a dishonorable discharge, which Government Code chapter 124 does not.

Bell County resident; any discharge but dishonorable. A veteran or serving member who lives in Bell County, whose offense is linked to military service or its trauma, with any discharge except dishonorable. No rating is needed.

The Belmont County Recorder, Jason Garczyk, 101 West Main Street, St. Clairsville (740-699-2140), records a veteran's DD-214 and gives certified copies free; recorded discharges are not public records and copies go only to authorised people with identification.

Any veteran with a discharge. Recording a discharge and certified copies are free for the veteran. No rating is needed.