Anyone offering to help a Utah veteran apply for VA benefits must be VA-accredited and must hand you a signed disclosure form, on a state-approved template, stating there is no charge for help with an initial application. Charging before a notice of disagreement is filed is prohibited, so are referral fees and guarantees, and the Division of Consumer Protection enforces it under the consumer sales practices act.
The person must be VA-accredited, and their registration number goes on the form. Utah Code § 71A-4-102(1) and (2)(a). Accreditation is verifiable on VA’s accreditation search.
Utah gives its National Guard and State Defense Force members on state orders the protections federal law gives on federal orders: a six percent interest cap, no foreclosure or repossession without a court order, protection against eviction where rent is under $2,400 a month, stays of proceedings, tolled limitation periods, and no adverse credit inference for using any of it. Federal law does not cover state active duty, which is the gap this fills.
It covers state military service, which federal law does not. Utah Code §§ 39A-6-101 and 39A-6-102. The chapter applies to a Utah National Guard or State Defense Force member serving on active military service in an organized military unit under the governor’s orders.
An honorably discharged Utah-resident veteran with any current service-connected disability rating gets free day-use admission to state parks, and the pass covers up to seven guests in the same vehicle. Camping is not included. The pass is being replaced during 2026, and in the meantime a current VA Summary of Benefits letter gets you in at the gate.
Any current service-connected rating, with no percentage floor. Utah Code § 79-4-1002(2) requires only "a current service-connected disability rating issued by the United States Veterans Benefits Administration". The department describes it as any disability rating. Recorded rather than enforced because the statute sets no minimum.
A state-run database that matches veterans and their dependent spouses and children who need specific goods, services or labour with donors willing to provide them free. Registry information is not public. A donor who helps is treated as acting on the state’s behalf for volunteer immunity purposes, which is what makes tradespeople willing to sign up.
Any Utah veteran, plus a dependent spouse and children. Utah Code § 71A-5-101(1)(b) defines recipient as a veteran under § 68-3-12.5 or a veteran’s dependent spouse and children. No disability, wartime period or income test.
The Uvalde County Clerk (Donna M. Williams, 100 N. Getty Street, Uvalde, 830-278-6614) posts no military-discharge line in its fee schedule or forms; 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 Uvalde County Commissioners Court (Acting County Judge Jerry W. Bates) dedicated the County Clerk's archive project partly in honor of the county's veterans (September 22, 2025), heard the Veterans Service Officer's report of a dire need for help (February 23, 2026) and adopted a 2026-2027 budget adding part-time help to the office (September 14, 2026); no benefit was narrowed or repealed.
No eligibility - a board record. The record documents the county’s veterans-services administration; it grants no individual entitlement.
When VA decides a beneficiary cannot manage VA payments, it appoints a fiduciary to receive and manage them, and oversees that fiduciary.
VA's only regional benefit office outside the United States, on the U.S. Embassy's Seafront Compound in Pasay City. Congress keeps renewing its authority, and the current renewal runs only to December 11, 2026.
No rating requirement. The office serves any veteran, service member, survivor or dependent with a VA claim or benefit. Nothing about it turns on a disability percentage.
Free help with a VA claim from a VA-accredited Veterans Service Organization representative, or paid help from an accredited attorney or claims agent after an initial decision.
The Val Verde County Clerk (Teresa Esther Chapoy, 400 Pecan Street, 1st Floor, Del Rio, 830-774-7564) posts no fee schedule and names no military-discharge line on her page; the free DD-214 filing is Local Government Code 192.002(b), the certified copy Government Code 603.003(a), and the confidentiality 552.140 - carried by the State entry; land records from 1982 search on texaslandrecords.com.
Any veteran with a discharge. Filing and certified copies are free under the State statutes. No rating is needed.
The Val Verde County Commissioners Court (County Judge Lewis G. Owens, Jr.) carried the Veterans Service Office through three turnovers in the 2025-26 window - Enrique Trevino out, Luis Maldonado hired May 11, 2026 at $56,185.14 and terminated, Gloria Sanzone appointed September 9, and Sergio Palafox hired September 28 at $56,185.14 - plus the library workshops, the TAC auto claim, the jury-donation item and the Veterans Day Bull Mania lease; 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.
Valley County’s section 80-102 Veterans Aid Fund holds $33,244 that has grown only on interest - it paid nothing in 2023-2024 or 2024-2025 - and budgets all of it for 2025-2026; the county’s page still asks for wartime service and an honorable discharge, tests the 2024 amendment removed.
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 Valley County, and need the committee assesses; the county page’s wartime test no longer applies. No rating is required.
Valley County’s two-day-a-week Veterans Service Office in Ord, open Wednesdays and Thursdays under Veterans Service Officer Dale Beethe, helps veterans and dependents with VA benefits and VA health care, places grave flag holders and records DD-214s; the Board names a Veteran of the Month and from September 2026 wants a monthly report from the office.
Any Valley County veteran or dependent. Claims help, grave flag holders and homestead help need no rating; the rating filter never hides this entry.
The Van Buren County Board of Commissioners' October 2025 to October 2026 record - 26 meetings, all 75 agenda, packet and minutes PDFs read whole from the county's CivicClerk portal - carries the standing Veterans Services liaison (Mike Chappell), an October 14, 2025 veterans standdown mention and a letter about the county's veterans services, the Battle Creek VA's overnight-parking request, the VSO staff's NACVSO and MACVC dues and training, the veterans relief fund millage lines and the parks plan's Veterans Therapy Gardens.
No eligibility - a board record. The record documents the county’s veterans-services administration; it grants no individual entitlement.
Van Buren Public Transit runs a free Veteran Shuttle to the Battle Creek VA Medical Center on Tuesdays and Thursdays - drop-offs 9:00 a.m. and 12:30 p.m., returns 12:30 and 4:30 - scheduled at 269-302-0237, for veterans presenting a DD-214 or the county's free Veteran Rider card.
Van Buren County veterans. Free rides to the Battle Creek VA on the designated travel days, for veterans presenting a DD-214 or the free Veteran Rider card. No rating is needed.
The Van Zandt County Clerk publishes no discharge page, so the statute governs: Local Government Code 192.002 has the Clerk record a DD-214 without a fee, and Government Code 552.140 keeps it confidential and limits who can get copies; 121 E. Dallas Street, Room 202, Canton, 903-567-7555.
Any veteran with a discharge. Recording a discharge is free. Copies go only to the people section 552.140 lists.
Van Zandt County's Veterans Service Officer, at 1200 S. Trade Days Boulevard, Suite 400, Canton, 903-567-7985, helps veterans and families apply for VA compensation, pension, DIC, survivors' pension, education, vocational and burial benefits, appeals and lost records; mornings 8:30 to 12:30 on weekdays, and Wednesday afternoons 2:30 to 6:30.
Veterans and families. For veterans and their dependents. No rating is needed.
Vanderburgh Circuit Court's Veterans Court, a certified Indiana problem-solving court, is supervised by Judge Ryan D. Hatfield with program director Mignon Ware, Civic Center, 1 NW Martin Luther King Blvd., Room 127, Evansville; 812-435-1490.
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 unincorporated county's business tax exempts only an honorably discharged veteran with a service-connected disability who cannot earn a living by manual labor, with a military surgeon's certificate. State law exempts any veteran discharged under honorable conditions who peddles goods the veteran owns.
Disabled veteran under the ordinance; any veteran under State law. The ordinance needs a service-connected disability that prevents manual labor. Section 16102 needs only a discharge under honorable conditions.
Ventura County Parks waives the campsite fee for members of its Distinguished Veteran program, and from December 1, 2026 members can book online with the waiver applied automatically. New members apply through the Parks reservation site's Memberships link.
Distinguished Veteran member. Approved members of the county programme. The county does not publish its test; the State pass it is named after needs 50%, a POW or the Medal of Honor.
Ventura County's veteran services office in Oxnard, in the Human Services Agency, helps veterans, dependents and survivors with VA compensation and pension claims, the CalVet College Fee Waiver, memorial benefits and VA life insurance, with walk-in hours on Wednesdays in Camarillo and Simi Valley. Call 805-477-5155.
Veterans, dependents and survivors. Any veteran, dependent or survivor can use the office. No rating is needed.
The Superior Court's Veterans Intervention Program takes, on a guilty or no contest plea, veterans the court describes as honorably discharged with combat-related psychological injuries or substance abuse. Penal Code 1001.80 and 1170.9 ask about neither the discharge nor combat. A Stand Down Court each July clears minor cases for homeless veterans.
Veteran with a service-related condition. The court names honorable discharges and combat injuries; the statutes need neither. No rating is needed.
The Vermilion County Recorder, 201 N. Vermilion Street, Danville, records a veteran's DD-214 free, keeps it out of public view, and gives the veteran or family copies with no fee (the fee schedule lists 50 cents for certified copies after the first); 217-554-6040.
Any veteran. Any veteran can use it. No rating is needed. The rating filter never hides this entry.
Vermilion County's Veterans Court, certified by the Illinois Supreme Court, takes Vermilion County veterans eligible for VA health care who face or have pleaded to a felony and have moderate to high substance abuse or mental health needs; anyone may refer a case to the Problem-Solving Courts Coordinator, 217-554-7915.
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.
A free hunting, fishing, or combination license including every big game license except moose, for a Vermont resident veteran who is, or ever has been, 60 percent disabled from a service-connected disability.
A service-connected disability rating of 60 percent, now or at any time. The statute reaches a Vermont resident veteran who is, or ever has been, 60 percent disabled as a result of a service-connected disability, evidenced by a VA certificate. VetTOC enforces the floor on the current rating, so a veteran whose rating was later reduced should read the statute rather than the filter.
A $2 lifetime pass from the town clerk giving a Vermont resident veteran free day entry to state parks, historic sites, and fully State-sponsored events, plus one day at any fair or exposition the State supports. The statute names no discharge test.
A veteran of the uniformed services who is a Vermont resident. Section 1002(a) asks only that the applicant be a resident of the State and a veteran of the uniformed services. The statute names no discharge characterization, no wartime period, and no age. Agency descriptions add an honorable discharge that the statute does not contain. No disability rating is involved, so the rating filter never hides this benefit.
A free license for a Vermont resident serving in the armed forces or on a 120-day homeland defense or state-side contingency operation, and resident-rate licenses for a service member stationed at a post in Vermont.
Vermont residence plus current service. Section 4259 reaches a Vermont resident serving in the U.S. Armed Forces, or performing or under orders to perform a homeland defense or state-side contingency operation for 120 consecutive days or more. It applies only during service, so it is not a veteran benefit. No disability rating is involved, so the rating filter never hides this benefit.
Full-time active duty pay earned outside Vermont comes out of Vermont income, and the first $2,000 of in-state unit training pay comes out for a Guard or Reserve member with a federal AGI under $50,000 who completed all unit training that year. Combat zone service defers the filing deadline.
Federal AGI under $50,000 for the drill pay subtraction. The first $2,000 of in-state unit training pay is subtracted only where the taxpayer had a federal adjusted gross income of less than $50,000 and the Adjutant and Inspector General or Reserve Component Commander certifies that the taxpayer completed all unit training of the unit during the calendar year. The full-time active duty subtraction has no cap and no income test.
All federally taxable military retirement pay and SBP survivor benefit income is excluded from Vermont income at a federal AGI of $125,000 or less, phasing out to nothing at $175,000, for any filing status. Since tax year 2025 it can be taken on top of the Social Security exclusion.
Federal AGI of $125,000 or less for the whole exclusion. All federally taxable military retirement and survivor benefit income is excluded at a federal AGI of $125,000 or less, for any filing status. Between $125,000 and $175,000 the excluded share is proportional. At $175,000 or above nothing is excluded. No disability rating is involved.
Up to ten percent of Vermont’s annual moose permits, and no more than six, are set aside for Vermont residents who served on active duty and did not receive a dishonorable discharge. No disability rating is required.
Active duty in any branch, without a dishonorable discharge. The set-aside reaches Vermont residents who served on active duty in any branch of the U.S. Armed Forces provided they have not received a dishonorable discharge. There is no rating, wartime, or length of service test, so the rating filter never hides this benefit.
Four separate Vermont exemptions unlocked by one federal form: no registration fee, no emissions or electric vehicle fee, no title fee, no purchase and use tax, and no driver license fee, for a vehicle bought with VA financial assistance.
An approved VA Form 21-4502. Every one of the four exemptions turns on a copy of an approved VA Form 21-4502 certifying entitlement to VA financial assistance to acquire the vehicle. No disability rating percentage appears in any of them, and a 100 percent rating alone does not qualify, so the rating filter neither hides nor grants this benefit.
Addison County has no county website and no veterans service office of its own; claims are filed through the Office of Veterans Affairs’ certified service officers in Montpelier, by appointment at 802-828-1082.
Any Vermont veteran, by statewide service officers. The Office’s certified service officers help veterans file claims without a rating test, so the rating filter never hides this benefit.
Bennington County has no veterans service office of its own; claims are filed through the Office of Veterans Affairs’ certified service officers in Montpelier, by appointment at 802-828-1082.
Any Vermont veteran, by statewide service officers. The Office’s certified service officers help veterans file claims without a rating test, so the rating filter never hides this benefit.
Caledonia County has no veterans service office of its own; claims are filed through the Office of Veterans Affairs’ certified service officers in Montpelier, by appointment at 802-828-1082.
Any Vermont veteran, by statewide service officers. The Office’s certified service officers help veterans file claims without a rating test, so the rating filter never hides this benefit.
Chittenden County has no veterans service office of its own: claims are filed through the Office of Veterans Affairs’ certified service officers in Montpelier, by appointment at 802-828-1082, who complete federal disability and pension applications.
Any Vermont veteran, by statewide service officers. The Office’s certified service officers help veterans file claims without a rating test, so the rating filter never hides this benefit.
Essex County has no veterans service office of its own; claims are filed through the Office of Veterans Affairs’ certified service officers in Montpelier, by appointment at 802-828-1082.
Any Vermont veteran, by statewide service officers. The Office’s certified service officers help veterans file claims without a rating test, so the rating filter never hides this benefit.
Franklin County has no veterans service office of its own; its sheriff’s office site publishes services but no veteran programme, and claims are filed through the Office of Veterans Affairs’ certified service officers in Montpelier, by appointment at 802-828-1082.
Any Vermont veteran, by statewide service officers. The Office’s certified service officers help veterans file claims without a rating test, so the rating filter never hides this benefit.
Grand Isle County has no veterans service office of its own; claims are filed through the Office of Veterans Affairs’ certified service officers in Montpelier, by appointment at 802-828-1082.
Any Vermont veteran, by statewide service officers. The Office’s certified service officers help veterans file claims without a rating test, so the rating filter never hides this benefit.
Lamoille County has no veterans service office of its own; claims are filed through the Office of Veterans Affairs’ certified service officers in Montpelier, by appointment at 802-828-1082.
Any Vermont veteran, by statewide service officers. The Office’s certified service officers help veterans file claims without a rating test, so the rating filter never hides this benefit.
Orange County has no veterans service office of its own; claims are filed through the Office of Veterans Affairs’ certified service officers in Montpelier, by appointment at 802-828-1082.
Any Vermont veteran, by statewide service officers. The Office’s certified service officers help veterans file claims without a rating test, so the rating filter never hides this benefit.
Orleans County has no veterans service office of its own; claims are filed through the Office of Veterans Affairs’ certified service officers in Montpelier, by appointment at 802-828-1082.
Any Vermont veteran, by statewide service officers. The Office’s certified service officers help veterans file claims without a rating test, so the rating filter never hides this benefit.
Rutland County has no county website, no sheriff site and no veterans service office of its own; claims are filed through the Office of Veterans Affairs’ certified service officers in Montpelier, by appointment at 802-828-1082.
Any Vermont veteran, by statewide service officers. The Office’s certified service officers help veterans file claims without a rating test, so the rating filter never hides this benefit.
Washington County has no county website and no veterans service office of its own; claims are filed through the Office of Veterans Affairs’ certified service officers, by appointment at 802-828-1082 - the Office itself sits in the county, at 118 State Street, Montpelier.
Any Vermont veteran, by statewide service officers. The Office’s certified service officers help veterans file claims without a rating test, so the rating filter never hides this benefit.
Windham County has no veterans service office of its own; claims are filed through the Office of Veterans Affairs’ certified service officers in Montpelier, by appointment at 802-828-1082.
Any Vermont veteran, by statewide service officers. The Office’s certified service officers help veterans file claims without a rating test, so the rating filter never hides this benefit.
Windsor County has no county website and no veterans service office of its own; claims are filed through the Office of Veterans Affairs’ certified service officers in Montpelier, by appointment at 802-828-1082. The veterans treatment docket pilot described in 2018 sat in this county and is not on the Judiciary’s current list.
Any Vermont veteran, by statewide service officers. The Office’s certified service officers help veterans file claims without a rating test, so the rating filter never hides this benefit.
A never-repealed State bonus of $10 for each month served, up to $120, for an enlisted person who entered from Vermont between August 5, 1964 and March 31, 1973, payable to a spouse or lineal heirs if the veteran has died.
Enlisted service between August 5, 1964 and March 31, 1973. The bonus reaches an enlisted individual in the U.S. Armed Forces during that window who resided in Vermont at the time of enlistment or induction. No disability rating is involved, so the rating filter never hides this benefit.
A "veteran" designation on a Vermont driver license or ID, and military, veteran, gold star, and next-of-kin plates at no additional charge. Being disabled in service is a route to both, even without an honorable characterization.
Veteran status under 38 U.S.C. 101(2), or disabled in service. The designation and the plate reach a veteran under 38 U.S.C. 101(2) and an individual disabled during active military, naval, air, or space service under 38 U.S.C. 101(24). The Office of Veterans Affairs confirms an honorable discharge, a discharge under honorable conditions, or disability incurred in service. No disability rating percentage applies, so the rating filter never hides this benefit.
A $250 refundable credit against Vermont income tax for any resident or part-year resident who served in the uniformed services, at a federal AGI of $25,000 or less, phasing out to nothing at $30,000. It is new for tax year 2025 and has no discharge characterization test.
Federal AGI of $25,000 or less for the full $250. The credit is $250 at a federal AGI of $25,000 or less, reduced by $5 for each $100 of AGI above $25,000, and gone at $30,000. It is refundable, so it is paid even where there is no Vermont tax to offset.