A California resident veteran rated 50% or more, or a former prisoner of war, with an honorable discharge, gets a free pass for day use and parking at every San Joaquin County regional park, valid three years. Others pay $100 a year.
50% or a former POW, honorable discharge. A service-connected rating of 50% or more, or former prisoner of war status, with an honorable discharge and California residence.
San Joaquin County's veterans services office in Stockton works mainly by walk-in: claims, intent-to-file, DMV licence and plate certifications, income letters, records requests and College Fee Waiver applications need no appointment. Appointments are kept for gravely disabled veterans, those 75 and older, surviving spouses and homeless veterans. Call 209-468-2916.
Veterans and families. Any veteran, dependent or survivor can use the office. No rating is needed.
Environmental Health Services waives plan check, consultation and annual food facility permit fees for a veteran who is the sole proprietor of a food business that sells no alcohol, under Business and Professions Code 16102. File the affidavit before paying, because fees already paid are not refunded.
Veteran sole proprietor. An honorable discharge or a release under honorable conditions, and sole ownership of the food business. No rating is needed.
San Luis Obispo County's Veterans Services Office helps veterans, dependents and survivors with VA and CalVet claims by appointment only, in person or by phone, at 801 Grand Avenue in San Luis Obispo and on Tuesdays to Thursdays in Paso Robles. It also runs a veterans' food pantry and keeps the veterans' preference certificates for county jobs. Call 805-781-5766.
Veterans, dependents and survivors. Any veteran, dependent or survivor can use the office, by appointment. No rating is needed.
San Mateo County Parks waives its $6 vehicle entrance fee year-round for a veteran with proof of veteran status, at every county park. The Board of Supervisors adopted the waiver in 2016. Camping, reservations and other user fees still apply.
Veteran with proof of status. Any veteran with proof of veteran status. No rating, discharge type or residence is stated.
In the unincorporated county, a self-employed veteran pays no fee for the peddler's or solicitor's licence, which otherwise costs $12 for six months. The Ordinance Code sets no discharge test; the licence, fingerprints and investigation are still required.
Self-employed veteran. A self-employed veteran of U.S. military service. No rating or discharge test is stated.
San Mateo County's Veterans Services Office, in the Human Services Agency, helps veterans, spouses, survivors, children and Gold Star parents with VA and CalVet claims and the College Fee Waiver, by appointment at 550 Quarry Road, San Carlos. Walk in only to get the veteran designation on a driver licence. Call 650-802-6598.
Veterans, families and survivors. Any veteran, spouse, survivor, child or Gold Star parent can use the office. No rating is needed.
San Mateo County's Superior Court runs two veterans' programmes: Military Diversion, before a plea, for misdemeanours, open to honorable, general and other than honorable discharges with or without VA eligibility; and the post-plea Veterans Treatment Court, which asks for VA eligibility and bars a dishonorable discharge.
Current or former service member with a criminal case. Military Diversion takes honorable, general and other than honorable discharges without VA eligibility. The Veterans Treatment Court asks for VA eligibility. No rating is needed.
The San Saba County Clerk (Christi Whitley, 500 E. Wallace, Suite 202, San Saba, 325-372-3614) posts recording at $25 for a first page but no military-discharge line or form; the free DD-214 filing (Local Government Code 192.002), the free certified copy (Government Code 603.003) and the confidentiality (552.140) are the State's.
Any veteran with a discharge. Recording a discharge and a certified copy are free under the State statutes; copies go only to the people Government Code 552.140 lists. No rating is needed.
The San Saba County Commissioners Court (County Judge Jody Fauley) heard the Veterans Service Office at its June 22, 2026 budget workshop, took up the "Veteran's Service Officer Position" on July 20, 2026 and on September 8, 2026 adopted a FY 2026-2027 budget raising the officer's department from $10,237.19 to $22,023.40; 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 Sandoval County Clerk's fee schedule prices a Military Discharge DD214 recording at no charge, with military copies and certification free, against the $25 per-document recording fee.
Any veteran. Recording a discharge is free and no rating is needed. The rating filter never hides this entry.
The Sangamon County Recorder's office signs veterans up for the Honor Rewards card, which gives discounts and incentives at participating local businesses; sign up at the Recorder's office or online.
Any veteran. Any veteran can sign up. No rating is needed. The rating filter never hides this entry.
Sangamon County's Veterans Treatment Court, established in 2018 under the Veterans and Servicemembers Court Treatment Act and presided over by Judge Robin Schmidt, takes referrals - most often from defence counsel, self-referrals accepted - through the Problem Solving Court Coordinator at Sangamon County Court Services.
Justice-involved veteran. The court is for a veteran with a pending eligible case who consents and is accepted. A disability rating is not the test.
The Sanilac County Board of Commissioners, October 2025 to November 2026: Thomas Ellenson appointed to the Veterans Affairs Committee (October 2025), the 2024 Annual Report accepted (November 2025), a new transportation vehicle (November 2025), a five-year lease for the Veterans Affairs building (December 2025), flags and markers (March 2026), Frederick Buchner and Charles Cunningham appointed (April and October 2026), and the 2027 veterans millage at 0.1980.
No eligibility - a board record. The record documents the board’s veteran actions; it grants no individual entitlement.
The Sanilac County Clerk (Leslie Hilgendorf, Courthouse Room 203, 60 West Sanilac, Sandusky, 810-648-3212) lists DD-214's and the Veteran's Card among the office's services; Michigan law has the county clerk record a discharge and give a certified copy free (the State entries).
Any veteran with a discharge. Recording a discharge and a certified copy are free under State law; no rating is needed.
Santa Barbara County Parks sells a veteran a year's day-use vehicle entry at Cachuma Lake or Jalama Beach for $10, the price of one day's entry and a tenth of the $100 resident pass. ID is required and one pass is sold per veteran every 12 months.
Veteran with ID. A veteran with ID, one pass every 12 months. No rating or residence is needed.
The Superior Court's Veterans Treatment Court, in Santa Maria since 2011, Santa Barbara since 2012 and Lompoc since 2016, diverts veterans with addiction, serious mental illness or co-occurring disorders into treatment with VA and veteran mentors. It publishes no written eligibility rules.
Veteran with a criminal case. Justice-involved veterans with addiction or mental illness. No published rating, discharge or VA test.
Santa Barbara County's Veterans' Services Program, in the Treasurer-Tax Collector's office, helps veterans and families with VA and CalVet claims, discharge upgrades and home loans, free, from offices in Santa Maria (805-346-7160), Lompoc (805-737-7900) and Santa Barbara (805-681-4500).
Veterans and families. Any veteran or family member can use the office. No rating is needed.
Santa Clara County's veterans service office in the city of Santa Clara has accredited representatives for VA and CalVet claims, takes walk-ins in person or by Zoom every Tuesday, and runs the county's yearly Stand Down, on November 5 and 6, 2026 at the County Fairgrounds. Call 408-918-4980.
Veterans, service members and families. Any veteran, service member, dependent or survivor can use the office. No rating is needed.
Active or reserve members and California National Guard members in pay grades E-4 or below, and their families, who live in Santa Clara County can buy the $95 annual vehicle entrance pass for $48. There is no veteran rate.
Junior enlisted members and families. Active, reserve or California National Guard members in pay grades E-4 or below and their families, living in the county.
A veteran selling food in the unincorporated county pays no county food facility permit fee, and the Sheriff's peddler permit fee is waived, but the peddler ordinance names only the narrow disabled wartime exemptions of Business and Professions Code 16001 and 16001.5. Sections 16102 and 16001.7 reach any veteran discharged under honorable conditions.
Veteran discharged under honorable conditions. Section 16102 needs an honorable discharge or a release under honorable conditions. No rating is needed.
The Superior Court's Veterans Treatment Court takes anyone with proof of military service whose case meets the State statute, with VA and County Behavioral Health treatment. The Public Defender holds a free clinic at the veterans office on the second Tuesday of each month for expungements, warrants and old fines.
Proof of military service. The court needs proof of service and a qualifying condition; the clinic is open to veterans. No rating or discharge test is stated.
Santa Cruz County's Veterans Court, a peer-support collaborative court under Penal Code 1170.9 and 1001.80, meets the third Thursday of each month at 10:30 a.m. in Department 7 with Judge Leila Sayar, and takes veterans regardless of length of service, combat or discharge characterisation. Refer through counsel: 831-420-2352.
Any veteran, any discharge. Service of any length and any discharge characterisation, with a service-related condition. No rating is needed.
Santa Cruz County's Veterans Services Office files VA and CalVet claims free from 842 Front Street, Santa Cruz (831-454-7276) and 500 Westridge Drive, Watsonville (831-763-8868), Monday to Thursday; holds Tuesday mornings at the Watsonville Veterans Memorial Building with a food pantry; and books the free DAV van to VA Palo Alto. Its governance is being reorganised under a 2026 agreement.
Veterans and families. Any veteran, dependant or survivor can use the office. No rating is needed.
The Santa Fe County Clerk records a soldier's discharge for thirty days or more of service at no charge, and gives plain and certified copies of it free, against $25 for other documents.
Any veteran with thirty days or more of service. Recording a discharge is free and no rating is needed. The rating filter never hides this entry.
Santa Fe County residents outside the incorporated cities pay $5 less for a 6-trip transfer station punch permit ($50 instead of $55) and $10 less for a 12-trip one ($100 instead of $110) if they are veterans, with a DD-214 or proof of service-disabled status.
Honourably discharged or service-disabled veteran, county resident. A DD-214 with an honourable discharge or VA service-disabled status. No rating is needed.
Santa Rosa County Veterans Services helps veterans and families file VA claims, increases, appeals, pension with Aid and Attendance, DIC, survivors pension and burial benefits, with offices in Milton and Gulf Breeze and appointments in Jay. Call 850-981-7155, and come at least 60 days before an intent to file runs out.
Veterans and families. Santa Rosa County veterans, dependents and survivors. No rating is needed.
The First Judicial Circuit's Santa Rosa County Veterans' Treatment Court Program, at the courthouse in Milton, is a voluntary 12- to 18-month judicially monitored programme of treatment for veterans with a service-related addiction or treatable mental health condition charged with a qualifying misdemeanor or felony.
Veteran charged with a qualifying offense. A veteran with a service-related addiction or treatable mental health condition and a qualifying charge. No rating is needed.
Sarasota County's Veteran Service Officers help veterans and families claim VA compensation, pension with aid and attendance, vocational rehabilitation, burial and survivors' benefits, free, by appointment only at offices in Sarasota, Venice and North Port. Call 941-861-8387 (861-VETS).
Veterans and families. Any veteran, family member or survivor. No rating is needed.
The Twelfth Judicial Circuit's Sarasota County Veterans Treatment Court takes veterans and serving members charged with non-violent felonies, and misdemeanors case by case, but no drug dealing, for a four-phase programme of about a year. Participants pay $15 a week to the Clerk, or work it off at $15 an hour of public service.
Veteran or serving member with a non-violent charge. Anyone who served or is serving, charged with a non-violent felony or a misdemeanor the team accepts, not drug dealing. No rating is needed.
The Saratoga County Clerk scans and files a DD-214 free and issues the F.A.V.O.R. discount card, accepted by more than 300 local businesses, to county veterans who file their discharge, and to widows, widowers and Gold Star parents with the right papers.
An honorable discharge, for the F.A.V.O.R. card. Recording and the card are free. No rating is needed.
Saratoga County has run the Saratoga Veterans Peer to Peer Program, part of the PFC Joseph P. Dwyer Peer Support Program, since 2013, pairing veterans to ease PTSD and re-acclimation, and in 2026 adds a subsidised Saratoga Regional YMCA health and wellness membership for county veterans.
A county veteran with a DD-214, for the YMCA membership. The membership asks the veteran to pay a quarter of the cost. No rating is needed.
Sarpy County’s Veterans Services Office in Papillion, under director Tim Henderson, counsels veterans on federal, state and county benefits, issues the county’s Bronze Flag Holder, and processes County Veterans Aid worksheets under section 80-102.
Any veteran, dependent or surviving spouse. The office assists veterans, their dependents and surviving spouses with federal, state and county benefits. No rating is required, so the rating filter never hides this benefit.
Sauk County’s five-person, all-veteran CVSO office in Baraboo issues resident honorably discharged veterans one free county park sticker a year on a DD-214, stamps DNR disabled-veteran applications, and takes relief applications by phone and in-office visit.
Any veteran or family member. The office assists Sauk County veterans and their families with claims, relief and licenses; the park sticker requires honorable discharge and residency. No rating is required for the office.
Saunders County’s Veterans Service Office at 426 N. Broadway in Wahoo, under Veterans Service Officer Bill Bonney, works up VA applications and VA medical centre eligibility, and is where the Treasurer sends veterans for the State’s new disabled veteran vehicle tax exemption - about 800 county veterans, the officer told the Board in January 2026.
Any Saunders County veteran or dependent. Claims help and the vehicle exemption paperwork need no particular rating here; the rating filter never hides this entry.
Saunders County keeps a Veteran’s Relief Fund for county veterans aid under section 80-102 that held $107,792.13 on July 1, 2026 and paid no aid in 2023-2024, 2024-2025 or 2025-2026; the whole balance is budgeted again for emergency relief in 2026-2027.
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 Saunders County, and need the committee assesses. No rating is required.
A division of the Savannah-Chatham County Drug Court in Superior Court for people with prior military service, of any discharge, who have a substance use disorder, with weekly court, full-time work or school, 80 hours of community service and $1,500 in fees. The drug court also requires participants to be U.S. citizens and Chatham residents.
Prior military service, any discharge, with a substance use disorder. No rating or discharge test. The drug court adds U.S. citizenship, Chatham residence and its own exclusions.
Schenectady County's Legislature adopted Resolution 57-26 in spring 2026, urging Senators Schumer and Gillibrand and Congressman Tonko to prevent the proposed closure of the VA Community Based Outpatient Clinic on Altamont Avenue, which VA Albany Healthcare System leaders proposed to close on August 28, 2026.
Veterans who use the Altamont Avenue clinic. A county resolution; no eligibility test.
The Schleicher County Commissioners Court (County Judge Charlie Bradley) adopted its 2027 budget 5-0 on September 14, 2026, leaving blank the Community Resources fund's "Veteran's Services Officer" line that carried $12,000 in 2026, and its 2026 holiday schedule closes the county on Veteran's Day, Wednesday, November 11, 2026; none of the 36 sets of minutes of August 2025 to October 2026 names a veterans item. No benefit is known to have been adopted.
No eligibility - a board record. The record documents the county’s veterans-services administration; it grants no individual entitlement.
The Schleicher County and District Clerk (Marsha L. Maskill, P.O. Drawer 580, Eldorado; 325-853-2833) links a "Record DD214 or Copies of DD214" request form for a copy of a military discharge; its fee schedule lists recording at $25 for a first page and $4 for each further page and 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.
Schuylkill County's Veterans Affairs office in the Courthouse, 410 North 2nd Street, Pottsville, is the county director of veterans affairs' office: free claims help, the State tax exemption and temporary assistance, the county burial and headstone allowances, grave flags, free DD-214 recording and free certified copies of vital records for veterans; 570-628-1400.
Veterans, dependents and survivors. Any veteran of any era, family member or survivor can use the office. No rating is needed.
The Scioto County Recorder, Courthouse Room 110, 602 Seventh Street, Portsmouth (740-355-8304), records a DD-214 free, hands back the original with a free certified copy, keeps it out of the online search, and then issues a free photo Veteran ID card to any veteran whose discharge was not dishonorable; it also keeps an index of war veterans' graves.
Any veteran with a discharge. Recording and the card are free; the card needs a recorded discharge that was not dishonorable and two IDs. No rating is needed.
The Scott County Fiscal Court (Judge/Executive Covington and magistrates Chad Wallace, Kelly Corman, Rob Jones and Dwayne Ellison) renewed the Veterans Affairs lease at Landmark Crossing for one year at $1,750.00 per month on July 23, 2026 - the window's only veteran item in sixteen minutes sets, with no minutes posted for January through May 2026.
No eligibility - a board record. The record documents the Fiscal Court’s veterans-services administration; it grants no individual entitlement.
The Scott County PVA takes the homestead exemption the constitution and KRS 132.810 run for an owner classified totally disabled - the veteran's route needs the VA's total rating or individual unemployability - filed with the Property Valuation Administrator; the PVA's property site (qpublic.net/ky/scott) answers a Cloudflare challenge to every automated fetch, so the entry rests on the Department of Revenue's page and the statute, with the 2025-2026 exemption at $49,100 of assessed value.
Classified totally disabled by a federal programme, including the VA. The applicant must be classified totally disabled for the whole year and receive disability payments under that classification. A VA total rating or individual unemployability counts; a partial rating does not.
The Scott County Recorder of Deeds, Tara Mason, Courthouse Room 134, 131 S. Winchester, Benton (573-545-3551), lists military discharges among the documents the office records; RSMo 59.480 makes the recording and copies free and limits copies to the veteran or an authorized party on a notarized request.
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 Scott County Sheriff's Office charges active and retired military personnel living in the county $45 for a new, renewal or late-renewal permit to carry, against $80, $45 and $60 for others; apply in person at the Law Enforcement Center, 301 Fuller Street South, Shakopee.
Active or retired military. Active or retired military personnel who live in Scott County. No rating is needed.
Scott County Veteran Services, run by Director of Veteran Affairs Ben Enlow, files federal claims for Davenport-area veterans, and the county-funded Veteran Assistance programme pays emergency basic needs for veterans who have lived in the county 30 days and register for work.
Any veteran and dependents. Veteran Services assists all veterans and their dependents with federal claims. No rating is required, so the rating filter never hides this benefit.
Scott County and the First Judicial District have run a Veterans Court since 2020 for veterans with substance use, mental health or related problems in the criminal courts; the county funds a full-time coordinator through Community Corrections (952-496-8260) and a State grant of up to $192,500 for July 2026 to June 2027.
Justice-involved veteran. The court is for a veteran charged in Scott County whose case involves substance use, mental health or a related problem, who is referred and accepted. A disability rating is not the test.