OC Parks gives a Distinguished Veteran (a 50% or higher service-connected rating, a former prisoner of war, or a Medal of Honor recipient) its All County Parks and Beaches annual parking pass free; others pay $80, or $50 at 60 or with a disability.
50% service-connected, or former POW or Medal of Honor. A 50% or higher service-connected rating qualifies; a former prisoner of war or Medal of Honor recipient qualifies with no rating.
State trust officers who manage money for a veteran or family member who cannot, either as a court-appointed conservator or as a representative payee. Few states offer a public fiduciary of their own for veterans.
Incapacity and a family relationship, not a rating. Service depends on the protected person being unable to manage their own financial affairs and falling within the served group: veterans, surviving spouses, immediate family, minor children, helpless adult children, and dependents’ parents. No disability rating is involved, so the rating filter never hides this benefit.
The First Circuit Court's Veterans Treatment Court in Honolulu takes veterans charged with eligible Class B or C felonies, and some family abuse charges, into a programme of at least 24 months with VA treatment, mentors and weekly court. Any service counts under HRS 363-1, with no discharge test; violent and sex offences are excluded.
Any veteran charged on Oahu with an eligible offence. Any service under HRS 363-1, with no discharge test; an eligible Class B or C felony or a family abuse charge, and no violent or sex offence. No rating is needed.
The Clerk records a DD-214 free and keeps it confidential, but charges the veteran $1 for each certified copy after the first, which MCL 35.32 forbids. It issues a free veterans ID card for an honorable or equivalent discharge and the veteran's licence to sell goods.
Honorable discharge for the card and licence. Recording and copies are for any veteran; the ID card and the licence to sell goods need an honorable discharge. No rating is needed.
The Sixth Circuit Court's veterans court takes only veterans with combat service, an honorable or medical discharge and no significant prior record, all narrower than the State statute, which asks for a discharge other than dishonorable and 180 days of active duty.
Combat service and an honorable or medical discharge. The court asks for combat service, an honorable or medical discharge and no significant prior record. No rating is needed.
Accredited benefits counsellors in Pontiac and Troy file and appeal VA, State and county claims free, including the county's soldiers relief, county burial allowance, grave marker setting allowance and flag case. The county publishes no amounts for its own payments.
Veterans, survivors and dependents. Claims help is free for any veteran or family member. Relief and burial follow the State tests for wartime service and need. No rating is needed.
The Ocean County Clerk registers DD-214s by appointment, issues a free veteran photo card on honorable-discharge papers, gives certified copies of filed discharges to the veteran at no charge, and takes Veteran Peddler’s License applications at three offices.
Honorably discharged Ocean County veterans. The photo card, certified copies and peddler licence applications are for honorably discharged veterans; no rating is required.
The Ocean County Veterans Service Bureau, a standalone county department since February 12, 2026, files state and federal claims, death and burial benefits and discharge upgrades at no charge, from the Ocean County Resource Center at 1005 Hooper Avenue, Toms River, (732) 929-2096.
Any veteran, widow or family of a veteran. The bureau assists veterans, widows and families with state and federal claims at no charge. No rating is required.
Ocean Ride provides free transportation for Ocean County veterans to VA medical facilities: weekday service to the Toms River clinic, Monday and Thursday to East Orange, Tuesday to Lyons, Wednesday to Philadelphia and Friday to Marlton, booked through Ocean Ride or the Veterans Service Bureau.
Ocean County veterans traveling to VA facilities. The service is for Ocean County veterans going to VA medical facilities; no rating is required.
The Ochiltree County Clerk (Sandra I. Limas, 511 S. Main Street, Suite 8, Perryton, 806-435-8039) posts a Request for Copy of Military Discharge form for discharges recorded in Ochiltree County and says "There is no charge to obtain the record if you are qualified to receive a copy"; 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.
Twenty-seven of the 37 posted agendas of the Ochiltree County Commissioners Court (County Judge Charles Kelly) for September 8, 2025 through October 30, 2026 take up waiving rental fees and approving events at the county's Expo Center and VFW Building; a June 22, 2026 budget workshop took up Veteran Services, and the 2026-2027 budget adopted September 28, 2026 keeps the $4,700 Veteran's Service department. The courthouse closes for Veterans Day. The county 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 Oconee County Board of Commissioners - Chairman John Daniell, Post 1 Commissioner Mark Thomas, Post 2 Commissioner Chuck Horton, Post 3 Commissioner Amrey Harden and Post 4 Commissioner Mark Saxon, with the Administrative Building at 7635 Macon Highway, Watkinsville (706-769-5120) - meets in regular session the first Tuesday of each month at 6 p.m. with an agenda-setting meeting the Tuesday prior, in the Commission Chambers; the board's 2025-2026 record - 88 agenda, packet and minutes files read whole - names no veteran item: the word veteran appears only in the Oconee Veteran's Park Conference Room and Veterans Memorial Parkway venue and street names.
No eligibility - a board record. The record documents the board’s posted 2025-2026 files and their silence; it grants no individual entitlement.
The Oconee County Clerk of Courts - Angela Elder-Johnson, Clerk of Superior, Magistrate & Juvenile Courts, Room 208, 23 North Main Street, Watkinsville (P.O. Box 1099, Watkinsville, GA 30677; 706-769-3940, fax 706-769-3948, [email protected], 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 courts and the staff 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 Oconee County Tax Commissioner - Jennifer Riddle, 7635 Macon Highway, Watkinsville, GA 30677 (mailing address Suite 300; 706-769-3917, text 706-765-7790, [email protected], weekdays 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., oconeecountypay.com) - and the Board of Tax Assessors (Kristofer Robinson chair, Sidney Bell vice-chair, Charles H. Lee and Danny Mobley, 706-769-3921) take the homestead applications before April 1; the county's own Homestead Exemption Changes page records the May 21, 2024 vote that raised the general exemption and automated the age-based freezes, and the disabled-veteran amounts remain the State's on the O.C.G.A. 48-5-48 and 48-5-52.1 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 veteran amounts of their own. The rating filter never hides this entry.
The Oconee County Veterans Park on the courthouse grounds in downtown Walhalla honours the county's veterans with memorials covering service from the Revolutionary War to the present; the Veterans Affairs office (864-638-4231) is the contact.
Visitors. Open to the public.
The Oconto County Board of Supervisors (chair Al Sleeter; County Clerk Kim Pytleski; Administrator Richard Heath) carried the 2025-2026 veteran items: CVSO Ron Christensen's Veterans Day recognition of the county's veteran supervisors (November 20, 2025), Bruce Hansen's re-appointment to the Veterans Service Commission through 2028 (the same day), the introduction of Deputy CVSO Tanya Gonzalez and the thanks to retiring Deputy Sandy DeCleene (February 19, 2026), and the Veterans Services and Register of Deeds 2025 annual reports (May 21, 2026); no benefit was adopted, narrowed or repealed.
No eligibility - a board record. The record documents the board’s veteran items and the county’s veteran office; it grants no individual entitlement.
The Oconto County Register of Deeds (Laurie Wusterbarth, 301 Washington Street, Oconto, 920-834-7113, weekdays 8 to 4) names military discharges among the records its mission is to store, and its 2025 annual report says DD-214 records "are recorded and permanently stored for our military veterans. There is no recording fee, per WI State Statute 45.05."
Veterans recording a discharge. The Register of Deeds records and stores a DD-214 with no recording fee; no rating is needed.
The Oconto County Veterans Service Commission (Andy School, Renee Dietrich and Bruce Hansen) administers the county’s Veterans Emergency Relief Fund - $2,500 in the annual budget for short-term, temporary financial help to resident veterans and their dependents, claimed through the CVSO, who is the commission’s executive secretary; $1,100 had been paid out of the 2026 fund by October 23, 2026.
Resident veterans and dependents in need. Short-term, temporary financial assistance to resident veterans and their dependents, on a claim the commission reviews; no rating is needed.
An ombudsman with enforcement powers. The Procurador investigates and prosecutes violations of the Carta de Derechos, fines non-complying agencies up to $5,000 per violation, and can represent an injured veteran in court.
No rating requirement. The Procurador\u2019s jurisdiction runs to the rights in the Carta de Derechos, which turn on veteran status rather than on a disability percentage.
The Oglethorpe County Board of Commissioners - Chairman Jay Paul, District 1 Howard Sanders, District 2 Andy Saxon, District 3 David Clark, District 4 William C. Brown and District 5 Tracy Norman, with County Administrator Jason Lewis and County Clerk Amy Forrester at 105 Union Point Road, Lexington (706-743-5270, P.O. Box 67, [email protected]), meeting the first Monday of each month at 6:00 p.m. and the second Monday only when necessary - whose 2025-2026 meeting minutes and agendas (26 files on the county's own minutes-agendas page, all scanned images converted and read by OCR) carry no veteran item at all; American Legion Post 123 sits in Lexington and no VFW post is listed in the county.
No eligibility - a board record. The record documents the board’s 2025-2026 minutes and the county’s organizations; it grants no individual entitlement.
The Oglethorpe County Clerk of Court - Kelli Paradise Smith, Clerk of the Superior and Juvenile Courts (P.O. Box 68, Lexington, GA 30648, 706-743-5731, fax 706-743-5335), keeping the clerk's own site oglethorpeclerkofcourt.com - 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 prints the case search, the court calendars, the jury information and the legal forms and 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 Oglethorpe County Tax Commissioner - Dawn Johnson Scarborough, 339 West Main St., Lexington, GA 30648 (706-743-8422, fax 706-743-8837, [email protected], Monday to Friday 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. with the office closed 12:00 to 1:00 p.m. on Fridays, oglethorpecountypay.com) - and the Tax Assessor's Office (706-743-5166) take the exemption applications; the county's own General Information page prints the tax calendar - bills "mailed out by October 20 of each year. Taxes are to be paid by December 20 of the same year" - the January 1 to April 1 return window, and the line "Contact the Tax Assessor's office at 706 743 5166 for Exemption questions and Appeals process"; the county's pages print no veteran exemption amounts of their own, so the amounts rest on the State entries; the qPublic record-search site was not read (the gap goes to docs/COUNTY-REVISIT.md).
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. The rating filter never hides this entry.
Every county recorder must record a discharge free, keep it out of the public record for 75 years, give one free certified copy, and expunge it or the separation code on request. A county may also issue an Ohio veterans identification card for at most $2.
A discharged service member. Recording is for any discharged member of the armed forces. The ID card needs a recorded discharge that is not dishonorable. No rating is needed.
Every Ohio county must have a veterans service commission, funded by a county levy of up to half a mill, that gives temporary financial help to a veteran discharged under honorable conditions, a service member or their family after three months in the county, files VA claims free, arranges rides to VA medical centers and buries an indigent veteran.
Discharge under honorable conditions and three months in the county. Financial assistance needs a veteran discharged under honorable conditions with active duty other than training, an active-duty member, or their spouse, surviving spouse, dependent parent, minor child or ward, resident in the county at least three months. No rating is needed.
No registration fee, service fee, or local motor vehicle tax on the first vehicle for a veteran rated or compensated at 100% service-connected, or awarded a VA vehicle allowance. A 100% disabled veteran also pays no fee for an Ohio driver license.
Rated or compensated at 100%. The fee waiver is for a service-connected disability rated at 100% or compensated at 100%. A VA allowance toward the purchase of a vehicle is a separate path the rating filter does not test. Extra vehicles are charged ordinary fees.
Free hunting and fishing licenses, plus deer, turkey, fur taker, and the wetlands stamp, for an Ohio resident veteran whose disability VA has found permanently and totally disabling and who receives VA pension or compensation.
Permanently and totally disabled. One path is a VA determination that the disability is permanently and totally disabling, plus VA pension or compensation, an honorable discharge, and Ohio residence.
Ohio deducts uniformed-services retirement pay, including reserve and Ohio National Guard retirement, from Ohio income. A survivor benefit plan payment can be deducted by a surviving or former spouse.
Okaloosa County's Department of Veteran Services in Shalimar, with a Crestview office two days a week, helps veterans and dependents file, develop and appeal VA claims for compensation, pension, DIC, survivors pension and burial benefits, and visits the homebound and nursing homes. Call 850-651-7258.
Veterans and dependents. Any Okaloosa County veteran or dependent. No rating is needed.
The Okanogan County Commissioners (Andy Hover chair, Nick Timm, Jon Neal vice-chair; Clerk of the Board Stacy Nicole McClellan) heard the Veterans Relief Board's September 28, 2026 update - Thomas Even, James Cheek and Dale White: fourth-quarter benefits $302,038.57, year-to-date $1,217,371.52, service organizations and the Okanogan County Community Action Council funded through the Veterans Relief Fund - and listed the June 30 Veterans Advisory Board meeting on the June 15, 2026 agenda; no benefit was adopted, narrowed or repealed.
No eligibility - a board record. The record documents the county’s veterans-relief administration; it grants no individual entitlement.
The Okeechobee County Clerk of Circuit Court and Comptroller records a military discharge in the Official Records; its fee schedule lists "Military Discharge/Separation" at $10.00, but section 28.222(3)(d) makes the recording free to the veteran, with the county board paying the clerk. 312 NW 3rd Street, 863-763-2131.
Veteran recording a discharge. Any veteran recording a DD-214 or other certificate of discharge or separation. No rating is needed.
Okeechobee County's Veteran Services office, 1700 NW 9th Avenue, Suite C, (863) 763-6950 option 5, helps veterans and families claim VA compensation, pension, health care, education, home loan and burial benefits by appointment, weekdays 8 to 5, and runs a free van to the West Palm Beach VA Medical Center for appointments before noon (book on 561-248-0563).
Veterans and families. For veterans, dependants, survivors, Guard and Reserve members, active duty members and merchant mariners. No rating is needed; the van is for eligible veterans with West Palm Beach VA appointments.
An exemption card for up to $25,000 a year of purchases free of Oklahoma sales tax for a resident veteran paid by VA at the 100 percent rate for a permanent service-connected disability, and $1,000 a year for an unremarried surviving spouse or the unremarried spouse of a service member who died in the line of duty. Registration with the Veterans Registry comes first.
Paid at the 100 percent rate on a schedular rating. 68 O.S. § 1357(34), renumbered (31) from January 1, 2027: "in receipt of compensation at the one-hundred-percent rate" for a disability that "shall be permanent".
The Oklahoma County Clerk records discharge papers free and keeps them confidential. Its request form, revised March 2026, will be out of date on November 1, 2026, when grandchildren gain access, and it adds a notarised signature and photo ID that the statute does not require.
Any veteran. Recording and certified copies are free. No rating is needed.
Oklahoma County's Veterans Court offers treatment, mentoring and supervision to justice-involved veterans, and completion can mean dismissal and expungement. Entry is narrow: the application comes from the defence lawyer before the preliminary hearing, for a high risk, high need defendant facing prison, and the District Attorney decides.
Veteran with an Oklahoma County criminal case. High risk, high need, prison offered, before preliminary hearing, District Attorney approval. No rating is needed.
A DD-214 recorded with a county clerk is confidential and, from November 1, 2026, a grandchild may see it as well as the veteran, spouse or child. County clerks record discharges and certify copies free, and courts and the state registrar give free certified records needed for a VA claim.
A veteran rated 50 percent or more, or who received a VA automobile grant or lost the use of a limb or an eye, can register up to two vehicles with the disabled veteran plate for $5 a year in place of the ordinary registration fee. An unremarried surviving spouse, or a spouse receiving DIC, can keep one. Guides saying four vehicles describe a bill that died.
50 percent or more, or a VA automobile grant, or loss of use of a limb or an eye. 47 O.S. § 1135.2(B)(31). Recorded rather than enforced because the grant and limb routes need no percentage.
A resident veteran rated 60 percent or more needs no annual hunting or fishing licence and can buy a lifetime combination licence for $25; below 60 percent the lifetime licence is $200. A veteran paid at the 100 percent rate is also exempt from the resident deer gun, archery and primitive firearms licences.
Free annual licences and the $25 lifetime licence at 60 percent. 29 O.S. §§ 4-110(C)(3), 4-112, 4-114(C)(2). Recorded rather than enforced because the $200 lifetime licence is open at any rating.
All federal military pay of an Oklahoma resident, active duty, Guard or reserve, is deducted from Oklahoma taxable income. Department of Defense death payments for a service member killed in action in a combat zone are exempt in the year of death, and so is the surviving spouse's own income for that year.
Federal military pay only. 68 O.S. § 2358(E)(5)(b). State active duty pay is not "from the United States".
All military retired pay is exempt from Oklahoma income tax from tax year 2022, at any age and any amount. The state veterans agency's own benefits page still describes the pre-2022 cap of the greater of 75 percent or $10,000.
No age, cap or residency period. 68 O.S. § 2358(E)(18).
Oklahoma issues dozens of military plates. The Medal of Honor and Purple Heart plates carry no special plate fee, the prisoner of war, killed in action and Gold Star family plates are issued in place of the ordinary registration fee, and most service, campaign and decoration plates cost an $8 special plate fee on top of registration.
Oklahoma Guard members get full pay and medical care if injured or taken ill on duty, state-paid life insurance premiums up to $250,000, hardship grants from the Guard Relief Program, federal civil relief protections on state duty, paid military leave for public employees and job protection for private employees.
Current Oklahoma Guard member. 44 O.S. §§ 75, 77, 237.
A veteran paid by VA at the 100 percent rate for a permanent service-connected disability pays no Oklahoma motor vehicle excise tax on one vehicle every three years, or sooner if the vehicle is a total loss. There is no surviving spouse route.
Paid at the 100 percent rate on a schedular rating. 68 O.S. § 2105(16): "in receipt of compensation at the one-hundred-percent rate" for a disability that "shall be permanent".
Any veteran in the Oklahoma Veterans Registry can have a flag emblem and the word "Veteran" on the driver licence or state ID. It is also proof for free admission to state parks and museums.
Registered with the Veterans Registry. 47 O.S. § 6-124(B).
Registering with the Oklahoma Department of Veterans Affairs is voluntary, but since November 1, 2020 it has been required before almost any state benefit: the sales tax card, the vehicle excise exemption, the free driver licence, the veteran designation, disabled veteran hunting and fishing licences and the $5 plate. The department's service representatives help with VA claims and state benefit letters at no charge.
Registration is the first step for most state benefits. 72 O.S. § 421; required by the sections for the sales tax, excise tax, driver licence, designation, hunting and fishing and private preference benefits, largely since November 1, 2020 (Laws 2017, c. 229).
The Oldham County Commissioners Court (County Judge Shawn Ballew) held its budget hearing and took up adopting the FY 2026-27 budget on August 10, 2026; the adopted budget keeps the Veterans Service Officer department at $4,456, and the 2026 holiday list closes the county on Veterans Day, Wednesday, November 11, 2026. None of the 22 agendas of August 2025 to October 2026 names a veterans item. No benefit is known to have been narrowed or repealed.
No eligibility - a board record. The record documents the county’s veterans-services administration; it grants no individual entitlement.
The Oldham County and District Clerk (Darla Lookingbill, P.O. Box 360, Vega; 806-639-2119) posts recording in the Official Public Records at $25 for a first page and $4 for each further page (effective January 1, 2024) but no discharge line; the free DD-214 filing (Local Government Code 192.002), the free certified copy (Government Code 603.003) and the confidentiality (552.140) are the State's.
Any veteran with a discharge. Recording a discharge and a certified copy are free under the State statutes; copies go only to the people Government Code 552.140 lists. No rating is needed.
Olmsted County Parks and DAV Chapter 28 hold two lottery deer hunts for service-connected disabled veterans: a shotgun hunt at Chester Woods Park, closed to the public, for 30 hunters (November 12 to 15, 2026) and an archery hunt at Oxbow Park for 15 (October 29 to November 30, 2026); registration runs from August to September.
Any service-connected disability. Applicants must be service-connected disabled veterans. No minimum percentage is named.
The Oneida County Board of Supervisors elected Matthew Young to County Veteran Services Officer on February 17, 2026 - Resolution # 17 - 2026, carried 12-9 by supervisor with the roll call 20 aye to 1 nay - after Tammy Javenkoski's twenty years and over Assistant CVSO Jason Dailey's floor nomination; Dailey resigned February 18 and left February 27, 2026, the overlap day, and the January 20, 2026 meeting had appointed Dawn Spurgeon to the Veterans Service Commission through January 2029.
No eligibility - a board record. The record documents the county’s veterans-services administration; it grants no individual entitlement.