The Nassau County Clerk records a DD-214 free, returns the original with two certified copies, keeps it sealed, and issues a Veterans Discount Photo ID honoured by local businesses and the free veteran's peddler licence. The Clerk charges $2.50 for further copies, which Military Law 250 says must be free.
An honorable discharge. Recording, the ID card and the licence are free. No rating is needed.
Since Local Law 6 of 2019, Nassau County's Human Rights Law bars discrimination in housing, employment and public accommodations because of veteran status, meaning current or past service in the armed forces, the Guard, the reserves or a state militia, whatever the discharge.
Current or past service. No discharge test and no rating.
A Nassau resident veteran discharged other than dishonorably can buy a Veteran Leisure Pass for a one-time $30, renewed only by proving residence every three years, which brings the discounted fees at County pools, rinks, golf and other parks facilities. Active duty members and their families get several facilities free.
Nassau residence and a discharge other than dishonorable. No rating is needed.
Nassau County's Veterans Service Agency in East Meadow files and appeals VA claims at no cost, drives veterans free to VA appointments from home, and runs a weekday veterans food pantry. Call 516-572-6565; transport 516-572-6526.
Veterans, dependents and survivors. Any veteran or family member can use the agency. No rating is needed.
The Fourth Judicial Circuit's Nassau County Veterans Treatment Court, under County Judge Jenny Higginbotham, sits every other Friday at 3 p.m. at the Judicial Annex, 76347 Veterans Way, Yulee, for current and former service members arrested for an offence linked to a service-related condition, with peer mentors and help reaching VA care.
Justice-involved veteran or service member. For a current or former service member with a pending case linked to a service-related condition, who is screened and accepted. A disability rating is not the test.
Nassau's veterans treatment court sits in the County District Court in Hempstead. The County traffic agency also holds a monthly veterans session, on the third Thursday at 2 p.m., where veterans and active duty members can resolve tickets in one visit, with the Veterans Service Agency on hand.
A veteran or active duty member with a case or ticket in Nassau. The treatment court takes every character of discharge. No rating is needed.
Nassau County's Veterans' Service Office, run by the Clerk of Court at the Robert M. Foster Justice Center, 76347 Veterans Way, Yulee, 904-548-4670, [email protected], files and follows up VA claims, appeals denials, explains VA decisions and verifies benefits for assistance programmes, free; officers Bob Sullivan and Chris Newsom.
Veterans, dependants and survivors. For veterans, their dependants and survivors. No rating is needed and there is no charge.
Navajo County's Specialty Courts include a Veterans Court: a voluntary programme for veterans charged with or convicted of a crime, run by a team of judge, prosecutor, defence attorney, probation officer and treatment provider, with incentives and sanctions. The County Attorney described it to the Board in October 2025 as a robust court that connects veterans to their earned benefits.
Veteran charged with or convicted of a crime. Voluntary; eligibility depends on the programme. No rating is needed.
Santa Rosa County's Navarre Beach Fishing Pier admits disabled veterans free. Active duty members pay the senior rates: $6 a day to fish instead of $7, $40 a week and $100 a year. Other veterans pay the ordinary rates.
Disabled veterans. Free admission for a disabled veteran; the page sets no rating level. Active duty members get the senior rates.
The Navarro County Clerk (Sherry Dowd, 300 West 3rd Avenue, Corsicana, 903-654-3035) files military discharges and issues certified copies at no fee - its fee schedule prints both as "NO FEE" under Local Government Code 192.002(b) and Government Code 603.003(a) - and lets a qualified applicant search for a recorded discharge and request a copy online.
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 Navarro County Commissioners Court proclaimed November 1-15, 2025 as Operation Green Light for Veterans (October 27, 2025), approved restoring the Call to Arms statue at the request of the Corsicana chapter of the Sons of Confederate Veterans and two granite benches by the America 250 Patriots Marker (July 27, 2026), and budgeted the Veterans' Services office at $93,532 for FY2027; 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.
Every county runs its own veterans relief fund off a dedicated levy, decided locally by the county veterans service committee. A refusal from the state fund is not a refusal from this one.
Service in the armed forces with an honorable or general discharge. Section 80-102(1)(b)(i) and (ii). A death in service or as a direct result of service also opens the fund to the family.
The county clerk keeps a Discharge Record that is confidential by statute and readable by only three kinds of person, and any Nebraska public record needed for a VA claim must be certified free of charge.
Any veteran with a separation document. Section 23-1310 provides for registration on application. There is no rating, wartime or length of service test and no fee.
A free permanent combination permit and a free lifetime park entry permit at fifty percent, a five dollar annual permit five years earlier than other Nebraskans, and a free hunting permit on Veterans Day.
Fifty percent for the free permanent permit and the free park permit. Sections 37-420(1)(b)(i) and 37-438(5)(a)(ii)(A). Both also open to a veteran receiving a VA pension for a total and permanent disability not incurred in the line of duty, so neither entry hides below fifty percent.
One hundred percent of military retirement pay is excluded from Nebraska income tax, with no election, no form and no age condition. The old forty percent and fifteen percent elections are gone.
Any military retiree, with no rating and no age test. Section 77-2716(15)(b) applies to the individual receiving the retirement benefit. There is no disability requirement, no wartime requirement and no minimum age.
Disabled veteran plates at ten percent on any number of vehicles with no plate fee, plus prisoner of war, Purple Heart and branch plates. The old D.A.V. plates stop being valid on February 1, 2027.
Ten percent service-connected for the disabled veteran plate. Section 60-3,124(1). The plate is the lowest rating threshold in the Nebraska file, and any number of vehicles owned by the applicant may carry it.
From January 1, 2026 one vehicle is free of the motor vehicle tax and the motor vehicle fee at any service-connected rating, but the request has to be made inside a narrow window every single year.
Any service-connected disability recognised by VA. Section 60-3,185(2) uses the 77-202.23 definition, which adopts 5 U.S.C. 2108. A zero percent rating is a service-connected disability for this purpose.
Drill pay, annual training, dual-status technician wages and state active duty pay are all excluded from Nebraska income tax, and from 2027 the exclusion widens to cover title 10 duty as well.
A member of the Nebraska National Guard. Section 77-2716(21) is written by reference to Nebraska National Guard membership. A Nebraska resident in another state’s Guard or in a federal reserve component is outside it.
Emergency money for food, shelter, fuel, transport, clothing, medical care and funerals, paid from the interest on a trust the Legislature created in 1921. One claim per thirty days.
Active duty other than for training, honorable or general discharge. Section 80-401.03(4)(a). No wartime period is required on this branch. A death in service or as a direct result of service also qualifies the family.
One registration with the Department of Veterans’ Affairs unlocks every military plate, the veteran designation on a driver’s licence and the vehicle tax exemption. The statute then says the test proves nothing else.
Honorable or general under honorable conditions. Section 60-4,189(1)(a)(i). A characterization of service must appear on the discharge document submitted to the registry.
Up to $350 toward a veteran’s pet adoption fees, paid to the shelter, funded entirely by the sale of a licence plate and available only while the plate money lasts.
Active duty other than for training, honorable or general discharge. The department states the definition for this programme. There is no rating test and no wartime period.
The Nelson County Clerk (Jeanette Hall Sidebottom, 113 E Stephen Foster Ave., Bardstown, 502-348-1820) issues the disabled veteran's license plate to a veteran the VA has rated 50% or more disabled - bring the VA proof, the current plate and the insurance; the plates renew every July - and a free parking permit to a holder of a disabled veteran's plate on the notarized application.
50% or more disabled (VA). The Clerk issues the disabled veteran’s plate on VA proof of a 50% or greater disability.
The Nelson County Fiscal Court (Judge/Executive Tim Hutchins with Magistrates Keith Metcalfe, Adam Wheatley, M.T. Harned, Jeff Lear and Jon Snow; One Court Square, Bardstown) heard Frank Thompson's March 3, 2026 proposal for a Veterans Connect Center beside the new county Veterans Park, honored Technical Sergeant Ashley B. (Young) Pruitt with a moment of silence and the joint procession plan of April 2026, and announced her memorial highway's September 26, 2026 dedication at the Veterans Park; no benefit was adopted, narrowed or repealed.
No eligibility - a board record. The record documents the Fiscal Court’s veteran items; it grants no individual entitlement.
Nemaha County opened a section 80-102 Veterans Service Aid Fund in 2025-2026, funded by donations rather than a levy: it took in $1,712 and paid $500 of veterans aid that year, and the adopted 2026-2027 budget sets $11,212, including $6,212 of veterans aid.
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 Nemaha County, and need the committee assesses. No rating is required.
Nemaha County’s Veterans Service Office at the Wellness Center in Auburn, under Veterans Service Officer Jim Reed and assistant Gene Mace, files VA, State and county claims, places a flag holder on every veteran’s grave in the county and drives veterans to VA appointments; in 2025-2026 the county also set up a Veterans Memorial Fund of $34,254.17 for the veterans wall.
Any Nemaha County veteran, dependent or survivor. Claims help and grave flag holders need no rating; the rating filter never hides this entry.
One sentence that operates across the whole of Nevada law: for any state or local benefit for a veteran with a service-connected disability, the veteran is deemed disabled to the extent the Federal Government determined, and a VA or Defense Department certificate is sufficient evidence.
It applies to any state or local benefit for a veteran with a service-connected disability. NRS 417.0187 opens with "Notwithstanding any provision of state law to the contrary" and covers any benefit, program or assistance provided by the State or a local government, including to a veteran-owned business.
A statutory duty on the Director to conduct outreach to lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender veterans and to help them apply for a discharge upgrade or a change in the narrative reason for discharge. The section defines veteran by the service routes of NRS 417.005 without importing its discharge condition, so a veteran with a bad discharge is inside it.
A Nevada resident who meets the service routes of NRS 417.005, subsection 1. NRS 417.121, subsection 2 imports only subsection 1 of NRS 417.005 and not subsection 2, so the requirement of separation under conditions other than dishonorable does not apply to this section.
Nevada County's Veterans Services Office, 988 McCourtney Road, Grass Valley (530-273-3396, weekdays 8 to 5), helps veterans, dependants and survivors with VA health care, compensation, pension and the College Fee Waiver, drives veterans free to VA clinics in Auburn, Mather and McClellan with volunteer drivers, and funds psychotherapy for veterans through a county contract.
Veterans and families. Any veteran, dependant or survivor can use the office. No rating is needed.
Churchill County has housed a Nevada Department of Veterans Services office since 2016 under a Memorandum of Agreement, and on May 20, 2026 the Board unanimously renewed it for office space in the county's William N. Pennington Life Center through December 31, 2026 - the county's veterans claims presence in Fallon.
Free State claims help housed in the county. The Nevada Department of Veterans Services files claims at no charge; the county provides the office space under the Memorandum of Agreement. No rating is needed.
Both plates exempt the vehicle from every parking fee charged by the State or any political subdivision, including meters. The qualifying disability is defined additively: separate ratings that add up to 100 percent count, and any rating at all counts if it includes a permanent walking disability.
A service-connected disability rated at 100 percent. NRS 482.0962, subsection 1, read with NRS 482.377, subsection 1(a), which also requires that the veteran receive compensation from the United States for the disability.
Every county recorder must record a certificate of honorable discharge free of charge. A recorded DD-214 can become a public record, so read the county recorder's page before recording one.
Certificate of honorable discharge. The statute covers certificates of honorable discharge. No rating is needed.
A resident with a 50 percent or greater service-connected disability buys the annual specialty combination hunting and fishing license for $15, against $40 for a resident fishing license alone. It is a reduced fee, not a free license, and the discount is the same one seniors and severely disabled residents get.
A service-connected disability considered 50 percent or more by VA. NRS 502.072. The threshold is lower than the 60 percent floor for the Nevada property tax exemption. Recorded rather than enforced because the severe physical disability route in NRS 502.240, subsection 4(b) reaches the same $15 licence without any rating.
The Nevada Constitution forbids an income tax on the wages or personal income of natural persons, so there is no state tax on military pay, retired pay, Survivor Benefit Plan annuities or anything else, and no return to file.
No status test, because there is no personal income tax to be exempt from. Article 10, section 1 of the Nevada Constitution: "No income tax shall be levied upon the wages or personal income of natural persons." Changing that requires a constitutional amendment.
The same dollar tiers as the property tax exemptions, applied to the governmental services tax on vehicles, and a veteran may transfer the exemption to a current spouse and revoke the transfer at any time. The wartime list here includes a 1961 to 1975 route the property tax section leaves out.
For the disabled veteran tiers, at least 60 percent. NRS 371.104, subsection 1 sets the first $20,000 of determined valuation at 100 percent, $15,000 at 80 to 99 percent and $10,000 at 60 to 79 percent. The general exemption in NRS 371.103 needs no disability at all.
The DMV must ask every applicant for an initial or renewed licence whether they wish to declare veteran status, and with the applicant’s written release passes the information to the Department of Veterans Services. It is an outreach mechanism built into a transaction every veteran already completes.
The DMV must ask at every initial application and every renewal. NRS 483.292, subsection 1. The inquiry duty attaches to initial issuance of an instruction permit or driver’s licence under NRS 483.290 or 483.291 and to every renewal. NRS 483.852 does the same for identification cards.
A district, justice or municipal court may run a treatment programme for a veteran or service member whose service-related mental illness, substance use disorder, PTSD, TBI or military sexual trauma is diagnosed. Only a dishonorable discharge bars it, and even that can be overcome. Completion means discharge and dismissal, a set-aside conviction, and sealed records.
Veteran or service member with a diagnosed service-related condition. The defendant must be a veteran or member of the military with a qualifying diagnosis related to service. Only a dishonorable discharge is a bar, and it can be overcome. No rating is needed.
One free set of plates for an amputee, paraplegic, permanently and totally disabled or totally blind veteran, carrying the accessibility symbol and the free parking that goes with it. A Purple Heart, prisoner of war or Pearl Harbor plate is free but is expressly denied that parking privilege.
Evaluated by VA as permanently and totally disabled from service connection. RSA 261:86, I(a) third route. No adapted vehicle and no amputation is required, only a VA evaluation of permanent and total disability from the service-connected disability. These plates carry the international accessibility symbol.
The division must help any New Hampshire veteran or dependent secure every state and federal benefit, and must publish a state veterans handbook every two years. Any public record the VA needs to decide a claim must be certified free of charge.
The free records provision turns on the VA needing the record, not on the veteran’s status. RSA 110-B:86. The duty arises when a copy of any public record is required by the Department of Veterans Affairs to determine eligibility for VA benefits, and the certified copy goes without charge to the applicant, a person acting on their behalf, or an authorised VA representative.
A grant-making authority created on September 8, 2026 to fund work on veteran homelessness, employment, health care access, suicide prevention, skills transfer and education. It is a public instrumentality organised as a nonprofit, governed by an eleven-member board, and it makes grants rather than paying veterans directly.
It funds organisations; it is not a benefit an individual veteran applies for. RSA 110-B:94, I establishes a programme to provide funding. RSA 110-B:96, IV and VI give the authority power to direct expenditure from the fund and to enforce grant obligations, which is the grant-making frame.
A perpetual free license at total and permanent service-connected disability for a $10 one-time fee, and a half-price lifetime license at 80 to 99 percent. At the 80 percent tier the license is discretionary for the first two years and mandatory after that.
Totally and permanently disabled from a service-connected disability, for the perpetual license. RSA 214:13, I. The executive director shall issue a perpetual special veteran’s license, with a $10 administrative fee charged once upon application.
New Hampshire taxes no personal income at all. It never taxed wages, and the interest and dividends tax, its only personal income tax, was repealed for taxable periods beginning after December 31, 2024, so the whole of RSA 77 is gone.
No status test, because there is no personal income tax to be exempt from. RSA 77, the interest and dividends tax, was repealed in its entirety by 2021 chapter 91, section 99, II, effective January 1, 2025. New Hampshire has never taxed earned income.
The ordinary veteran plate costs the regular registration fee plus $4 per plate and accepts a general discharge under honorable conditions. A surviving spouse may keep it indefinitely until remarriage. Gold Star plates come in mother, father and family versions.
A veteran as defined in RSA 21:50, including a general discharge under honorable conditions. RSA 261:87-b, I. Proof is any document in the RSA 21:50, I(b) list, which includes the DD Form 214, 215 and 217, a DD Form 2 (Retired), an NGB Form 22, a VA Verification of Service letter and a notarised statement of service from a commanding officer.
Free civil legal representation through New Hampshire Legal Assistance, with an eligibility route open to a veteran whose bad-paper discharge was caused by traumatic brain injury, post-traumatic stress disorder, sexual trauma or a combat-related injury. Its funding is contingent on grants, so check that it is operating.
A veteran as defined in RSA 21:50, or a mobilised reservist or Guard member. RSA 115-C:2, I and II. Paragraph II reaches a person ordered to active duty under 10 U.S.C. §§ 12301, 12302, 12304 or 12305 for an expansion of the active armed forces.
A $100 state bonus for a Vietnam-era veteran who was a New Hampshire resident on entering service. It is still on the books with no application deadline, and it passes to a surviving spouse, children or parents if the veteran died before it was paid.
90 days in the uniformed forces between August 5, 1964 and August 15, 1973. RSA 115-A:3. Service anywhere counts on this route. The alternative route requires service in the Vietnam area between July 1, 1958 and August 5, 1964 plus the Vietnam service medal or the armed forces expeditionary medal.
The New Hanover County Register of Deeds records discharges free, in person, and issues veterans a photo ID card for discounts at participating local businesses under its Veterans' Honor Program, also called Thank A Vet.
Veteran with a discharge document. No rating or fee. Copies of a recorded discharge go only to the people G.S. 47-113.2 authorises.
New Hanover County's veterans office in Wilmington helps county residents and their families apply for VA and other benefits, with walk-in hours Monday to Thursday and Friday appointments, and certifies the State's property tax form.
New Hanover County resident veteran or family member. No rating or fee. The office serves New Hanover County residents only.
New Hanover County (District 6) has an operating veterans treatment court, a supervised treatment programme for veterans in the criminal courts with a substance use, mental health or co-occurring disorder. Neither the court system nor the county publishes its entry rules.
Veteran with a criminal case and a treatment need. No published discharge or rating test. The court decides who enters.
A $6,000 personal exemption on the New Jersey income tax return for an honorably discharged veteran, and another $6,000 for a spouse on a joint return who is also a veteran. Documentation is needed once. It does not pass to a surviving spouse after the year of death.
Honorable discharge from active duty, a reserve component, or the New Jersey Guard in federal active duty status. N.J.S.A. 54A:3-1(b)7.