The Polk County Clerk of Superior Court - Stacie M. Baines, elected 2019, 100 Prior St., Room 106, Cedartown (770-749-2114, 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 county's own pages list the clerk's courts and duties 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 Polk County Recorder of Deeds, Carol Poindexter, 102 E. Broadway, Room 8, Bolivar (417-326-4924), records military discharges and posts the Recorders Association of Missouri's notarized request form; recording and copies are free under RSMo 59.480, and military separation papers are exempt from the formatting rules.
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 Polk County Register of Deeds (Sally L. Spanel, Government Center, 100 Polk County Plaza, Suite 160, Balsam Lake, 715-485-9240, weekdays 8:30 to 4:30) lists 'Record Military Discharges' among its department duties, beside the real-estate records, the marriage records and the certified birth, death, marriage and divorce certificates.
Veterans recording a discharge. The Register of Deeds records military discharges per its department duties; the State entry carries the free DD-214 recording rule.
The Polk County Tax Commissioner - Amanda B. Lindsey, 144 West Ave., Cedartown (770-749-2125, [email protected], weekdays 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., polkcountypay.com, with a Rockmart office at 316 N. Piedmont Ave., 770-684-3185) - takes homestead applications year-round with an April 1 deadline; the county's own Tax Commissioner page lists the local amounts - the first $2,000 general, the age-65 $20,000 school and $4,000 county with house and ten acres on state, the age-62 and age-70 $10,000-income exemptions - and the line that 100% permanently disabled veterans are "eligible for extra exemption" without an amount, the veteran amounts remaining the State's.
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.
Polk County Veteran Affairs helps county veterans, families and dependents with federal and state claims and runs its own temporary financial assistance for shelter, food and utilities, up to three months per fiscal year.
Any veteran, family member or dependent residing in Polk County. The commission assists veterans, their families and dependents residing in Polk County. No rating is required, so the rating filter never hides this benefit.
Polk County's Veteran Services helps veterans and families claim VA benefits, free, by appointment at its Bartow main office and in Lake Alfred and Lake Wales, and without an appointment four days a week at the Lakeland VA clinic. Call 863-534-5220.
Veterans and families. Any veteran or family member. No rating is needed.
Polk County Veteran Service Officers, trained in VA benefits, help veterans and dependents submit claims and follow up - disability compensation, pension, surviving spouse benefits, burial and marker applications, education, vocational rehabilitation and records - free of charge. Call 503-751-1644 or email [email protected].
Veterans and dependents of Polk County. The office serves any veteran or dependent free of charge; no rating is required, so the rating filter never hides this benefit.
The Tenth Judicial Circuit's Polk County veterans docket takes a case only if the prosecutor and defense agree and the judge approves; VA's justice outreach specialist then checks VA eligibility before a treatment plan is set. Misdemeanor cases run about six months and third-degree felonies up to twelve. The court charges no fee, but community providers may.
Veteran with prosecutor, defense and judge agreeing. A veteran whose case the prosecutor, defense and judge agree to transfer, assessed by VA. No rating is needed.
Transportation to VA medical facilities for Polk County veterans runs through the Aging and Disability Resource Center (ADRC) of Northwest Wisconsin at (877) 485-2372: veterans who are disabled or over 55 ride at reduced cost - $30.00 per round trip regardless of VA facility, or the surrender of VA mileage if entitled to it; spouses may ride if there is room or for the veteran's special needs, and issues and concerns can be discussed with the CVSO office.
Veterans who are disabled or over 55. Veterans who are disabled or over the age of 55 ride at the reduced $30.00 round-trip cost or by surrendering VA mileage; spouses ride if there is room or for special needs.
The Recorder records a DD-214 free and issues a free wallet-size veteran ID card showing branch of service, address and service dates, to any veteran with an honorable DD-214 and two forms of identification, one photographed - where the statute would let it charge up to $2.
Honorable discharge, on two forms of identification. Recording is free for any discharge; the card needs a DD-214 showing an honorable discharge and two forms of identification, one photographed. No rating is needed.
Walk-in, first-come-first-served help with rent, mortgage, deposits, home repairs, food, clothing, hygiene items, utilities, dental and medical complications for a Portage County veteran or family after 90 days in the county, whose checklist adds a 90-day active-duty minimum and an honorable discharge; over 200 veterans and families received $228,000 of relief in 2025.
Honorable discharge, 90 days in the county, and the county's 90-day service test. A veteran discharged under honorable conditions with active duty other than training who also served at least 90 days on active duty excluding training unless service-connected, or a family member 5901.08 lists, resident 90 days. No rating is needed.
Portage County’s CVSO office in Stevens Point brands its 45.86 aid as the Veterans Relief Program with a published application - one-time emergency grants for housing, heat, medicine and food - and runs a DAV van booking two weeks ahead.
Any veteran or family member. The office assists Portage County veterans and their families with claims, relief grants and van rides. No rating is required, so the rating filter never hides this benefit.
The Porter County Recorder keeps a veteran's DD-214 at no charge, gives free certified copies to the veteran and other authorised people, and signs veterans up for a free Honor Rewards card good for discounts at participating local businesses; Suite 210, 155 Indiana Avenue, Valparaiso, 219-465-3465.
Any veteran. Any veteran with a discharge can record it and join Honor Rewards. No rating is needed.
Porter Superior Court 3's Veterans Court, a certified Indiana problem-solving court, is supervised by Judge Michael J. Drenth with program director Tammy O'Neill, 1356 W. Lincolnway, Valparaiso; 219-462-1127.
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.
Portsmouth’s 2015 ordinance exempts one vehicle of a disabled veteran defined by limb loss, blindness, or permanent and total disability, but ties it to the statewide 100% exemption, so whether a veteran with limb loss below 100% qualifies is unclear.
Permanent and total, service-connected. The ordinance’s permanent and total route, tied to Code of Virginia § 58.1-3668, which requires a 100% service-connected, permanent, and total rating.
Under the U.S.-Portugal tax treaty, military retired pay is taxable only by the United States unless the retiree is a Portuguese national, and the exemption is lost to a retiree with Portuguese immigrant status. U.S. Social Security may be taxed by the United States and, for a Portuguese resident, by Portugal as well.
No rating requirement. The treaty turns on the kind of payment, nationality and immigration status, not on any disability percentage.
The Pottawatomie County Clerk, 309 North Broadway, Shawnee (405-273-8222), "files military discharge records at no charge"; the State's rules on who may see a filed DD-214 apply.
Any veteran. Filing a discharge is free and no rating is needed. The rating filter never hides this entry.
The Pottawattamie County Veterans Service Office in Council Bluffs runs two programmes, Veteran Emergency Assistance (county and state) and Veteran Services (federal), with nationally accredited caseworkers, and takes applications for the Korean government’s Ambassador for Peace Medal.
Any veteran or dependent. The office assists veterans and their dependents free of charge across county, state and federal programmes. No rating is required, so the rating filter never hides this benefit.
Ingham County's Potter Park Zoo in Lansing admits veterans and their families free on its Veterans Day promotion in November, and military members free on the Fourth of July.
Veterans and their families, on Veterans Day. Veterans and their families on the zoo’s Veterans Day promotion. No rating is needed.
Powhatan County exempts one car or pickup owned and used mainly by or for a veteran rated 100% service-connected, permanent, and total, on the same application as the real estate exemption. Vehicles are assessed on the J.D. Power clean loan value and prorated by month.
100% permanent and total. One owned automobile or pickup used mainly by or for the veteran. Leased vehicles are assessed on the same guide values. One path is a VA rating of 100% that is service-connected, permanent, and total.
Powhatan County taxes one vehicle of a disabled veteran at $0.00001 per $100 of assessed value and a handicap-modified vehicle at $0.0001, and the Tax Rates page sets specially equipped vehicles at $0.00, against $3.60 for other cars. The reduced rates are set by resolution each year, and the web page leaves the disabled veteran class out.
Disabled veteran, any rating for limb loss or blindness. Section 58.1-3506(A)(19) covers a veteran who has lost, or lost the use of, a leg, arm or hand, or is blind, at any rating, or is permanently and totally disabled as certified by the Department of Veterans Services, with that department’s written statement of service connection. No rating percentage is named.
The county code still imposes a vehicle license fee "as stated in the fee schedule", but the current fee schedule adopted April 28, 2025 lists no vehicle license fee and the FY2026 and FY2027 budgets book no motor vehicle license revenue, after $33,581 in FY2024 and $12,258 in FY2025. Section 70-461 exempts anyone exempt under Code section 46.2-755 in terms.
Disabled veteran, no rating named. Section 70-461 exempts anyone exempt under Code of Virginia section 46.2-755, and section 46.2-755(B) bars the fee on one vehicle of a veteran with Disabled Veteran plates. The county sets no rating of its own.
The Preble County Commissioners’ agendas of October 2025 to November 2026 carry the Veterans Service Commission’s quarterly updates, its resolutions moving money to the general fund and asking the county to consider buying property (November 26, 2025), the $21,795 veterans transportation agreement with MVCAP (April 13, 2026), $4,612.50 of outreach items (June 10, 2026) and the transfer of the commission’s vehicle and property to the county.
No eligibility - a board record. The record documents the Commissioners’ veteran actions; it grants no individual entitlement.
Preble County Veterans Services issues a county veterans ID card to an honorably discharged veteran who brings a DD-214 (honorable or under honorable conditions) and an Ohio ID; under its We Care programme, participating local businesses give the card holder a discount, and the card is also a condition of the dental programme.
Honorably discharged veteran. A DD-214 showing honorable or under honorable conditions and a valid Ohio ID; no rating is needed.
The Presidio County Clerk (Carolina Catano, courthouse first floor, 300 N. Highland Avenue, Marfa; P.O. Box 789; (432) 729-4812) posts a fee schedule that lists public records recording at $25 and $4 for each further page 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.
The Presidio County Commissioners Court (County Judge Jose Portillo Jr.) advertised for and hired a Veterans County Service Officer, Denise M Estrada (August 20 to October 22, 2025), moved her into the Annex, takes a Veterans Officer Report with its department reports - approving the others but not it on April 8 and May 6, 2026 - and called its FY2027 budget, with a $36,588.53 Veterans' Services department, for adoption on August 25, 2026. 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.
Prince George County’s code taxes one vehicle of a veteran with limb loss, blindness, or a permanent and total service-connected disability at a reduced rate, $2.13 per $100 on the 2026 application against $3.90. The county’s page and application offer it only to a veteran rated 100%, who is already fully exempt.
Permanent and total, as certified by DVS. One route in County Code § 74-434(a) and Code of Virginia § 58.1-3506(A)(19). No percentage is named. One vehicle takes the reduced rate.
Prince George County exempts vehicles of nonresident active-duty members, and of their spouses under the Military Spouses Residency Relief Act, on a January LES each year, and does not tax a vehicle kept on Fort Gregg-Adams. The county ended its vehicle license fee in 2022.
Active duty with a legal residence outside Virginia. The member is on active duty with a legal residence in another state, or is the spouse of such a member with the same legal residence, and files a current LES each year. No disability rating is involved.
A voluntary treatment court in the Circuit Court for Prince George's County for a veteran charged with a crime, pairing the case with VA and treatment services. It is not a disability benefit.
Justice-involved veteran. The court is for a veteran with a pending criminal case in the courts it serves who volunteers and is accepted. A disability rating is not the test.
Prince William exempts one automobile or pickup owned by the veteran or spouse and used mainly by or for a veteran rated 100% service-connected, permanent, and total or paid at the 100% rate. The county has no reduced rate for the limb loss and blindness class.
100% permanent and total. One owned automobile or pickup used mainly by or for the veteran. Prince William accepts a disability compensated at the 100% rate. Leased vehicles and motorcycles do not qualify. One path is a VA rating of 100% that is service-connected, permanent, and total.
The Pueblo County Clerk and Recorder records military discharges and gives copies on a DD214 or Military Record Request form, only to the veteran, next-of-kin, the VA or a veterans service office, with recording and copies at no charge on its fee schedule.
Any veteran. Recording a discharge is free and no rating is needed. The rating filter never hides this entry.
A complete exemption from Puerto Rico income tax on a military pension, added by Ley 191-2024 and claimable from tax year 2025. The separate $1,500 lifetime veteran deduction survives alongside it.
Complete exemption on the military pension from tax year 2025. Ley 191-2024 added a paragraph to Section 1033.18(a) of the 2011 Internal Revenue Code granting a complete exemption from income tax on military pension income for a person who is a veteran as defined in Ley 203-2007, is a retired member of the U.S. Armed Forces, and is a resident of Puerto Rico. Claimable beginning with tax year 2025.
Ten percent off the individual rate at balnearios, zoos, aquariums, vacation centres, campgrounds and other recreational areas, transferable to the surviving spouse and minor or disabled children.
No rating requirement. The ten percent discount turns on veteran status and family relationship, not on a disability percentage.
A veteran entering Puerto Rico government service may buy retirement credit for all active duty time and for VA-funded study time, at six percent simple interest on the lower of two salaries. Peacetime service is capped at five years.
No rating requirement, and federal disability pay does not disqualify you. Article 4E turns on veteran status and participation in a Puerto Rico government retirement system. Subsections (c) and (f) state expressly that a veteran receiving disability compensation or a disability pension from the United States is not barred from the benefits.
Half off the annual marbete for every veteran on one vehicle, excise and licence fee exemption on a VA-provided adapted car, no driver licence fees at one hundred percent, and a fee exoneration for any veteran over sixty.
Fifty percent off the marbete for any veteran, one vehicle. Article 4C, Third, (g) gives veterans a fifty percent discount on the annual marbete fee, available for one vehicle registered in the veteran\u2019s name, annually. No rating, age or era condition applies.
The Pulaski County Clerk of Superior Court - Michael King, 141 Commerce Street, P.O. Box 60, Hawkinsville, GA 31036 (478-783-1911, fax 478-892-3308) - is the county's recorder of military discharges under O.C.G.A. 15-6-72 and 15-6-78; the county's own Superior Court page seats the office and prints no discharge line, so the free recording and the 50-year closure rest on the State entries.
Any veteran with a discharge. The recording is free under O.C.G.A. 15-6-78 and the record is closed for fifty years under 15-6-72. No rating is needed.
Pulaski County exempts one motor vehicle owned and used primarily by or for a veteran rated 100% service-connected, permanent, and total, effective January 1, 2021, on the same application as the real estate exemption. The application names the qualifying vehicle by year, make and model.
100% permanent and total. One owned motor vehicle used mainly by or for the veteran, effective January 1, 2021. Pulaski accepts a disability compensated at the 100% rate. One path is a VA rating of 100% that is service-connected, permanent, and total.
Pulaski County's government is a sole commissioner - Jenna S. Mashburn, 45 South Lumpkin Street, Hawkinsville, GA 31036 (478-783-4154, fax 478-783-9209), holding a monthly regular meeting on the first Monday of each month at 10:00 a.m. with the agenda posted 3-5 days in advance on the bulletin board and the website, "one of the few counties in Georgia that operates under this form of government" - whose 2025-2026 agenda and minutes documents (55 files enumerated through the joint site's own document interface, downloaded and read whole) carry the October 6, 2025 Chamber of Commerce report - "There will be a Veterans Day ceremony at the park and small flags can be purchased for $5 at the local banks" - and the September 14, 2026 note that "RiverFest will be at Veterans Park this year"; VFW Post 6077 (194 Broad Street, meeting the 3rd Saturday at 9:00 a.m.) and American Legion Posts 125 and 329 sit in Hawkinsville.
No eligibility - a board record. The record documents the sole commissioner’s 2025-2026 minutes and the county’s organizations; it grants no individual entitlement.
The Pulaski County Tax Commissioner - Eric Vickers, 45 South Lumpkin Street, Suite 108, Hawkinsville, GA 31036 (P.O. Box 448, 478-783-2811, fax 478-783-0696, [email protected], pulaskicountypay.com) - and the Tax Assessor's Office (478-892-3564) take the exemption applications, and the Tax Commissioner's own General Information page prints the veteran rows themselves: "The Disabled Veterans Homestead Exemption is available to certain disabled veterans in an amount up to $50,000 deducted from the 40% assessed value of the homestead property ... proof of disability, either from the Veterans Administration or from a private physician in certain circumstances" and "A similar exemption in the same amount is now available to the un-remarried surviving spouse of a member of the armed forces of the United States who was killed in any war or armed conflict"; "Property Taxes are due by December 1st of each year"; the August 3, 2026 minutes record the sole commissioner routing exemption qualification to the Tax Assessors office; 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’s own page prints its Disabled Veterans row at up to $50,000 and the application route. The rating filter never hides this entry.
Pulaski County collects vehicle license fees - the adopted FY2026-2027 revenue budget books $605,000 of motor vehicle license revenue - but posts neither the fee amount nor a veteran exemption. Section 46.2-755(B) bars the fee on the one vehicle of a veteran with Disabled Veteran plates and on the qualifying vehicles of decorated veterans.
Disabled veteran, no rating named. Section 46.2-755(B) bars the fee on one vehicle of a veteran with Disabled Veteran plates. The county sets no rating of its own and posts no exemption schedule.
Pulaski County government publishes no veteran program, office, discount, budget line or discharge-recording page of its own; every benefit that applies in Pulaski 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 Pulaski County.
The Pulaski General District Court hosts a veterans treatment docket, sitting on the second and fourth Tuesdays at 11:00 a.m., with a New River Valley Community Services coordinator as the contact. It is a supervised treatment track entered through a criminal case, not a benefit a veteran applies for outside one.
The Putnam County Board of Commissioners - Chairman Bill Sharp (706-752-8431), Vice Chairman Tom McElhenney (District 1), District 2 Commissioner Richard Garrett, District 3 Commissioner Stephen Hersey and District 4 Commissioner Jeff Wooten, at 117 Putnam Drive, Suite A, Eatonton (706-485-5826), governed under House Bill 248, Act Number 22 (May 14, 2003), with a county manager holding the day-to-day executive duties - whose posted 2025-2026 minutes read (the September 15, 2026 called meeting, its executive session and the September 17, 2026 town hall) name no veteran item, and whose deeper meeting files paginate behind the CivicClerk portal's JavaScript; American Legion Post 583 meets in Eatonton.
No eligibility - a board record. The record documents the board’s charter, its posted minutes and the county’s veterans organizations; it grants no individual entitlement.
The Putnam County Clerk of Courts - Trevor J. Addison, 100 South Jefferson Avenue, Suite 236, Eatonton (706-485-4501, [email protected]) - is the county's recorder of military discharges under O.C.G.A. 15-6-72 and 15-6-78; his own site carries the real-estate, notary, e-certification and Board of Equalization routes and prints no discharge line, so the free recording and the 50-year closure rest on the State entries.
Any veteran with a discharge. The recording is free under O.C.G.A. 15-6-78 and the record is closed for fifty years under 15-6-72. No rating is needed.
The Putnam County Clerk - Michael C. Bartolotti, (845) 808-1142 x 49301 - files veterans' DD-214s and issues the Putnam County Veteran ID card free under the Return the F.A.V.O.R. discount program, whose participating merchants file discount applications with the Clerk; the free certified copies are Military Law 250, carried by the State entry.
Any veteran with a discharge. Filing the DD-214 and the veteran ID card are free; certified copies are free under Military Law 250. No rating is needed.
The Putnam County Board of Commissioners (Andy Beck, president; Tom Helmer; Rick Woodall) and County Council (Stephanie Campbell, president) carried the 2025-2026 veteran items: the Veterans Officer's resignation and Brian Hopkins' hiring (October and November 2025), the IDVA finding that the county meets the IC 10-17-1-9 standards (March 2, 2026), the VFW's request that the county take over its Buzz Bomb fund (April 6, 2026), a courthouse plaque for Navy veteran John Bryan McKamey (July 20, 2026) and the office's $4,560 copier (August 18, 2026); no benefit was adopted, narrowed or repealed.
No eligibility - a board record. The record documents the boards’ veteran items; it grants no individual entitlement.
The Putnam County Legislature (Chairman Daniel G. Birmingham, Deputy Chair William Gouldman, Clerk Diane Trabulsy; nine districts, 40 Gleneida Avenue, Carmel, 845-808-1020) carried Budgetary Amendment 26A021 - $203,008 of NYS OMH FY2026 funding for the Veterans Peer to Peer Support Pilot Program - the 2026 Buddy Poppy proclamation, the Veterans Memorial Park fee repeal, the Chapter 25 Article IV local law codifying the Row of Honor (Legislator Erin Crowley), the NY PLAYS ADA-playground application and the 100% service-connected exemption discussion; no benefit was adopted, narrowed or repealed.
No eligibility - a legislature record. The record documents the county’s veterans-services funding and facilities; it grants no individual entitlement.
The Putnam County Register of Deeds, Courthouse Room 3, Cookeville (931-526-7101), records a discharge or DD-214 free, and it is the one record in the office that is not public.
A veteran with a discharge. Recording is free; no rating is needed.