Miscellaneous

Ben Franklin Transit, which serves Benton and Franklin counties, lets veterans ride its fixed routes and BFT CONNECT free for life with a Veteran Pass, picked up with proof of service at the Three Rivers Transit Center or the Columbia Basin Veterans Center in Pasco. Dial-A-Ride is not free.

Veteran with proof of service. Any veteran with proof of service. No rating is needed.

The Benton County Recorder of Deeds, Carla Brown, 316 Van Buren, Warsaw (660-438-5732), records military discharges (DD-214) as "a free service and any copies of the recorded instrument are also free"; under RSMo 59.480 copies go only to the veteran or an authorized party.

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.

Benton County's Veterans Assistance Fund gives veterans and families at or under 150% of the poverty level vouchers for food, utilities, rent, deposits and application fees, a week of motel for a homeless veteran, dental care up to $2,000, burial up to $1,000, childcare, work equipment and bus passes, through screenings at veterans' posts and the county office in Kennewick. A Veteran Service Officer for Benton and Franklin counties files VA claims in Pasco.

150% of poverty, 90 days in the county. A veteran or surviving spouse at or under 150% of the poverty guidelines, living in Benton County for 90 days unless recently discharged. No rating is needed.

The Benton County Health Department publishes a Veterans Ride Support flyer (April 13, 2026) that points veterans to the Oregon Cascades West Council of Governments program for rides; the Health Department is at 530 NW 27th St, Corvallis, 541-766-6835.

Veterans needing rides in Benton County. The ride-support flyer is open to county veterans; no rating is required, so the rating filter never hides this benefit.

Benton County District Court's Veterans Therapeutic Court, running since June 2019, takes anyone who served in the active, reserve or Guard forces, charged in Benton County with a misdemeanor, gross misdemeanor or felony, who has a substance use disorder, mental illness, PTSD or military sexual trauma. No discharge or VA eligibility test is stated. Graduates usually have the charges dismissed.

Served in the active, reserve or Guard forces. Any past or present service in the active forces, reserves or Guard, with a qualifying condition and charge. No rating or discharge test is stated.

The Bergen County Clerk files military service records and issues the Veterans’ Service Card and the Veteran Peddlers License free of charge, gives DD-214 copies to veterans and their immediate family, and waives fees for passport pictures and certified deed copies for veterans.

Bergen County veterans and their immediate family. Filing, the service card, the peddler licence and the fee waivers are for veterans (and their immediate family for DD-214 copies). No rating is required.

Bergen County’s Division of Veterans Services, established 1977 at One Bergen County Plaza, Hackensack, (201) 336-6325, helps resident veterans and dependents obtain earned entitlements, and runs the Tracers homeless-veteran outreach, the Alfred J. Thomas Home for Veterans, Hire a Vet and Memorial Day flag distribution.

Any Bergen County veteran or dependent. The division assists resident veterans and their dependents with earned entitlements; no rating is required.

Bergen County awards its Military Service Medal to county residents honorably discharged from the U.S. military, posthumously to those who died while serving, at an annual May Military Appreciation Month ceremony; the Clerk’s Veterans’ Honorary Service Card carries vendor-discretion discounts.

Honorably discharged Bergen County residents. The medal is for county residents honorably discharged from the U.S. military, including posthumous awards for those who died while serving. No rating is required.

Each Veterans Day week, Bergen County veterans and active-duty service members play a free round at the county’s six golf courses - Darlington, Orchard Hills, Overpeck, Rockleigh, Soldier Hill and Valley Brook - with status confirmed at tee-time check-in.

Bergen County veterans and active-duty service members. The free round is for Bergen County residents who are veterans or active-duty, confirmed at check-in; no rating is required.

Free weekday transportation to New Jersey VA medical centers, coordinated by the Division of Veterans Services with the Division of Community Transportation, (201) 368-5955, and funded by a $26,000 state Chapter 159 grant for the year from July 1, 2026.

Bergen County veterans traveling to NJ VA medical centers. The weekday service is free to veterans; no rating is required.

Berkeley County has no county veterans office; the state Martinsburg benefit office on Aikens Center carries the claims work, and the county clerk records service discharges at no charge.

Any veteran or family member. The Martinsburg benefit office advises Berkeley County veterans and their families on VA and state benefits and files claims, free of charge. No rating is required, so the rating filter never hides this benefit.

The Berks County Recorder of Deeds records military discharge papers free and issues a veterans ID card, only at its office on the third floor of the County Services Center in Reading. Bring the original DD-214.

Any discharge. Recording is free. No rating is needed.

Berks County's Department of Veterans Affairs, the Etchberger Veterans Service Center at 20 Commerce Drive in Wyomissing, is the county director of veterans affairs' office: it files VA claims, pays the county burial and headstone allowances, gives out grave flags and flag holders, and runs the county's own emergency grant fund for veterans. Call 610-378-5601.

Veterans and dependents. Any veteran or dependent can use the office. No rating is needed.

Berks County Veterans Affairs runs its own emergency fund, separate from the State's temporary assistance: up to $500 a calendar year for a Berks County veteran 60 or older, or younger and disabled, facing a sudden loss of income or rise in costs within the past year, for necessities such as shelter, food, utilities, bus passes or car repairs for work.

A Berks County veteran 60 or older, or disabled, in a recent hardship. The fund needs active-duty service, age 60 or a disability, and a recent hardship. No rating is needed.

Berks County's Veterans Treatment Court, run through Adult Probation and Parole, takes county residents who are current or former service members, Guard and Reserves included, with a substance use disorder, PTSD, serious mental illness, military sexual trauma or brain injury. Any discharge but dishonorable is considered, and any charge except homicide and registrable sex offences.

A Berks County veteran or service member with a qualifying diagnosis. Any discharge but dishonorable is considered. No rating is needed.

The Metropolitan Court's Community Veterans Court in Albuquerque takes veterans of any era and any discharge, and Guard and Reserve members, charged with a misdemeanour in Bernalillo County, into a supervised programme with VA treatment, frequent testing and a veteran mentor. Call the programme manager at 505-938-4243.

Any veteran, Guard or Reserve member charged with a misdemeanour here. Any era and any discharge, charged with a misdemeanour in Bernalillo County. No rating is needed.

Veterans swim free at Bernalillo County's Rio Grande Indoor Pool, daily, monthly or yearly, and its fitness centre page lists veterans as free at the county's community centre weight rooms. Others pay $4.25 a swim or $10 a month for the fitness rooms.

Any veteran. The pages set no discharge or rating test. No rating is needed.

The Berrien County Board of Commissioners - Chairman Jimmy Parker (District 3), District 1 John Nugent, District 2 Ronnie Gaskins, District 4 Kylon Fort and District 5 David Harrod, with County Administrator Brenda Ferrell and County Clerk/HR Teresa Hayes at 201 N Davis Street, Nashville (229-686-5421, fax 229-686-2785), meeting the first Tuesday of every month - whose 2025-2026 minutes (26 posted 2025 files and 11 posted 2026 files on the county's own document library, all scanned images converted and read by OCR) carry the September 1, 2026 proclamation designating October 14 as "Jon's Mission for 22 Day" for "all Berrien County residents that have been affected by veteran suicide and loss", the June 18, 2025 holiday list with "Tuesday, Nov. 11, 2025 Veterans Day", and the May 2025 Board of Assessors appointment; VFW Post 5978 and American Legion Post 115 sit in Nashville.

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 Berrien County Clerk of Superior Court - Shawna C. Hughes, 201 N Davis Street, Room 230, Nashville, GA 31639 (229-686-5506, fax 229-543-1032, 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Monday to Friday, with Chief Deputy Kellie Philpot) - is the county's recorder of military discharges under O.C.G.A. 15-6-72 and 15-6-78, and the county's own Superior Court Clerk page lists "Military Discharges" among the office's services beside Jury Management, On-Line Citation Payments, Register Trade Names, Board of Equalization, Protective Registry and Notary Public Commissions & Renewals.

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 Berrien County Clerk files a veteran's DD-214 free and gives one free certified copy at filing and free certified copies later, kept confidential, and issues a county Veterans ID card for $10; 701 Main Street, St. Joseph, or the Niles courthouse.

Any veteran. Any veteran with a discharge can file it and apply for the card. No rating is needed.

The Berrien County Tax Commissioner - Catherine Barnes, Interim Tax Commissioner, 201 N Davis Street, Suite 105, first floor of the Administration Building, Nashville, GA 31639 (229-686-7461, fax 229-686-2243, [email protected], Monday to Friday 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., tax.berriencountypay.com) - and the Board of Tax Assessors (Chief Appraiser Greg Nimmo, Suite 122, 229-686-2149, fax 229-686-7819, with Appraiser Richard Allen and Assessment Clerk Marsha Sloan) take the exemption applications; the assessors' own notice records that the office reviews "New Construction, Homestead Applications, Agriculture Covenants, Additions, Remodeling, Reviewing Permits, Taxpayer Returns, Deed Transactions, Deletions, and Property Owner Requests" between January 1 and July 1 each year; 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 and the assessors review homestead applications each year. The rating filter never hides this entry.

The Bexar County Clerk records an original DD-214 for free and returns it with three free certified copies, so a replacement can be had later.

Original DD-214. Any veteran with an original, complete DD-214 and identification can record it.

Bexar County's veterans county service office: free accredited help with VA compensation, pension, survivor benefits and appeals, discharge upgrades and record corrections, and employment and transition help, by appointment at 210-HELP-VET.

Veterans, service members, spouses and survivors. Any veteran, transitioning service member, spouse or survivor can use the office. No rating is needed.

A misdemeanor Veterans Treatment Court in County Court at Law No. 6 that takes every discharge, including dishonorable, with a one-year pretrial track that ends in dismissal, and a Felony Veterans Treatment Court in the 186th District Court that reviews every discharge case by case.

Veteran or service member with a pending case. The courts take veterans and service members with a pending case. Neither uses a rating, and the misdemeanor court accepts any discharge.

The Unified Court System lists one veterans treatment court in Broome County, in Binghamton City Court, City Hall, 38 Hawley Street, 5th floor, Binghamton (607-240-4272), 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 Broome County. Every character of discharge is accepted. No rating is needed.

The Black Hawk County Veterans Affairs office in Waterloo files federal, state and county claims, issues a free county veteran photo ID, certifies the Iowa driver’s licence veteran designation, and reviews any request the veteran considers an emergency need for relief assistance.

Any veteran or dependent. The office assists veterans and dependents with federal, state and county benefits, and the commission will review any request the veteran considers an emergency need. No rating is required.

Blaine County’s section 80-102 Veterans Aid fund has held $5,646.81 since July 2023 with no levy, no receipts and no payments, all of it budgeted for emergency relief; Blaine County veterans apply through Custer County’s officer in Broken Bow.

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

Blair County's Veterans Affairs office, Courthouse, 423 Allegheny St., Suite 027A, Hollidaysburg, is the county director of veterans affairs' office: federal claims forms, compensation and pension help, lost discharges and grave flags and holders for wartime veterans; by appointment, 814-693-3160, weekdays 8:30 to 3.

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

Blair County hosts a Regional Veterans Treatment Court, funded in part by the Administrative Office of Pennsylvania Courts' problem-solving court grant ($7,000 accepted for 2025-26) and by county budget transfers; ask Blair County Court Administration, 423 Allegheny Street, Hollidaysburg.

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 Blanco County Clerk (Laura Walla, Courthouse Room 10, 101 E. Pecan, Johnson City, 830-868-7357) lists "Military Discharge (DD214)" filing and certified copies at no charge on its fee schedule effective January 1, 2024.

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 Blanco County Commissioners Court (County Judge Brett Bray) heard the Veteran Service Officer’s recap of fiscal 2024-25 on October 14, 2025, proclaimed Operation Green Light for Veterans 5-0 on October 28, 2025, moved its November 11 meeting for Veterans Day, authorized an "America 250 Patriots" marker at the Veterans’ Memorial 5-0 on June 23, 2026, and approved an FY2026-27 budget with $79,259 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 Blount County Commission (Bradley Harvey, Chairman; Allen Armstrong, Chad Trammell, Chase Moore and Nick Washburn; meets 9:00 a.m. the second Tuesday monthly in the Courthouse Commission Boardroom, with a work session the preceding Thursday) backed the veterans group's Veterans Memorial Park at Palisades Park through the window - the Hallmans' April 8 and June 10, 2025 presentations, the October 14, 2025 motion placing Commissioner Chase Moore over all Veterans Park construction, donations and expenditure decisions until completion, the Vulcan Materials and Kirkpatrick donations, the April 14, 2026 items granting veterans office space at the Community Services Building and announcing the May 1, 2026 opening ceremony at 11:00 a.m.; no benefit was adopted, narrowed or repealed.

No eligibility - a commission record. The record documents the county’s backing of the Veterans Memorial Park; it grants no individual entitlement.

The Blount County Judge of Probate - Tamra D. Alldredge, Blount County Courthouse, 220 2nd Avenue East, Oneonta (205-973-0584; Hayden Annex 306 2nd Avenue, Hayden, 205-590-2851) - is the county's public records office; its Recording Fees PDF carries mortgage, deed, mineral, power-of-attorney, judgment and plat lines and no military-discharge line, so the free DD-214 recording and the confidential treatment are the State's section 36-12-62 route, carried by the State entry.

Any veteran with a discharge. Recording and copies are free under section 36-12-62 and the record is confidential. No rating is needed.

The Veterans Affairs Committee, a standing committee of the Blount County Commission, oversees the county's veterans office and its War Dead Memorial, and meets quarterly at the courthouse. In 2025-26 the Commission also supported naming the Maryville Army National Guard Armory after Command Sergeant Major William O. Gregory.

Open meetings. The committee meets quarterly at the courthouse; veterans organizations hold its seats and the public can attend. No rating is needed.

The Administrative Office of Courts' veterans courts map (revised 2026) fills Blount County with the active-court color among the state's 28 active veterans courts, and its adult drug courts map counts Blount among the 47 operating adult drug courts - the county's veterans docket sits with the 41st Circuit's courts at the Blount County Courthouse, 220 2nd Avenue East, Oneonta, under Presiding Circuit Judge Gregory J. Reid and District Judge Sherry C. Burns; the county's own pages name no coordinator, so a veteran asks the Circuit Clerk (Cindy Massey, 205-973-0499) or defence counsel for the referral.

Justice-involved veteran. The docket serves veterans with pending charges who volunteer and are accepted; a disability rating is not the test.

Blount County's Veterans Treatment Court, part of the county Recovery Court programme, diverts justice-involved veterans from jail into treatment. Circuit Judge Tammy Harrington and General Sessions Judge Mike Gallegos preside; the coordinator is retired Air Force MSgt Heather Watson, 865-273-5579.

A justice-involved veteran. The court serves veterans diverted from the traditional criminal justice system. The county posts no published admission criteria; contact the coordinator. No rating is needed.

Blue Earth County's Sheriff charges veterans and active military $25 for a new or renewed permit to carry, against $100 new, $75 renewal and $85 late renewal for others, and replaces a lost permit card free (otherwise $10), under the 2026 fee schedule the Board adopted on November 4, 2025.

Veterans and active military. The $25 fee is for veterans or active military. No rating is needed.

The Bonner County Recorder, 1500 Highway 2, Suite 335, Sandpoint (208-265-1490), records a veteran's military discharge and gives copies of it with no fee, as Idaho Code 65-301 requires; 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 and copies are free under Idaho Code 65-301; no rating is needed.

Bonneville County Parks and Recreation sells military veterans its Ririe Reservoir season passes at the senior rate: winter $20 instead of $30, summer $60 instead of $80, and the combined pass $70 instead of $95, covering Juniper Campground and Blacktail Park day use. Cash or cheque only.

Military veterans. The discounted rate is for military veterans; no rating is needed.

The Boone County Circuit Clerk and ex-officio Recorder, Judy Kay Harris, names "recording DD-214's" among the office's duties; its fee list prices other filings but names no fee for a discharge.

Veteran or family member with a discharge to record. Recording the discharge is free; no rating or service test applies.

Boone County’s Veterans’ Service Office in the Albion courthouse, open weekdays under Veterans’ Service Officer Robert McCurdy Jr., files county, State and federal claims, places a flag holder on every veteran’s grave in the county and serves Greeley County once a week under a yearly agreement; the county is a veterans preference employer.

Any Boone County veteran or dependent. Claims help, grave flag holders and homestead help need no rating; the rating filter never hides this entry.

The Boone County Recorder of Deeds keeps recorded military discharges in the restricted category of section 59.480 and gives copies free on the Recorders Association of Missouri's notarized request form (RAM 59.480), one discharge per form; Government Center, 801 East Walnut, Room 132, Columbia, (573) 886-4345.

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

The Boone County Recorder, Debbie Ottinger (765-482-3070), at 202 Courthouse Square, Lebanon, records DD-214 military discharge records free of charge; since May 15, 2007 the records are confidential under IC 10-17-2-4.

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

Kentucky's Department of Specialty Courts runs a Veterans Treatment Court in Boone County, one of its programme counties, for veterans with open criminal cases, taking referrals from judges, prosecutors, defenders, probation and pretrial officers, Veterans Justice Outreach coordinators or the team, regardless of county of residence.

Justice-involved veteran. The court is for a veteran with an open criminal case who volunteers and is accepted. A disability rating is not the test.

Boone County’s section 80-102 Veteran’s Aid Fund, grown from 1960s donations to $76,701.57, levies nothing until it falls below $4,000 and pays aid through the office’s own account: $1,500 in 2024-2025 and $2,000 toward a veteran’s funeral in April 2026.

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

The Bosque County Clerk (Tabatha Ferguson, 110 South Main, Room 110, Meridian, 254-435-2201) lists veterans' discharge papers as closed to the general public and certified copies as free of charge for a qualified applicant; the free filing (Local Government Code 192.002) and the list of who qualifies (Government Code 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 Bosque County Commissioners Court (County Judge Cindy Vanlandingham) approved replacing the VFW sign (November 24, 2025), signed a Vietnam War Veterans' Day proclamation (March 23, 2026), heard the Bosque County Veterans Memorial announce the America's Freedom Tribute Wall's July visit, and approved a FY2027 budget with no veterans line; 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.

Botetourt County exempts one car, pickup or panel truck from the $2.71 per $100 vehicle rate for a veteran rated 100% service-connected, permanent, and total. Its page says the exemption is not available to a surviving spouse, which is what section 58.1-3668(C) provides. The county sets no separate rate for the limb loss and blindness vehicle class.

100% permanent and total. One owned car, pickup, or panel truck used mainly by or for the veteran. A surviving spouse does not qualify. One path is a VA rating of 100% that is service-connected, permanent, and total.