The Victoria County Clerk’s Thank a Vet program issues a veteran photo I.D. card - free, with the free DD-214 filing, which is kept non-public and viewable only by the veteran and immediate family - that participating Victoria County merchants honour with discounts; the merchant list sits on the clerk’s page and is updated weekly.
Honorably discharged veteran with a DD-214 to file. The card issues after the free filing; the discharge record is non-public. The rating filter never hides this entry.
Virginia Beach exempts one passenger car, pickup, or panel truck used mainly by or for a veteran rated 100% service-connected, permanent, and total, and rechecks eligibility every three years.
100% permanent and total. One passenger car, pickup, or panel truck used mainly by or for the veteran. The city form asks for a VA letter showing a 100% service-connected, permanent, and total disability. One path is a VA rating of 100% that is service-connected, permanent, and total.
Free parking in Virginia Beach city garages, lots, and meters for a vehicle with Disabled Veteran, Purple Heart, Medal of Honor, Prisoner of War, Pearl Harbor Survivor, or certain valor medal plates.
Plates issued to the veteran. The vehicle displays plates issued to the veteran under the listed sections. Disabled Veteran plates need a VA-certified service-connected disability at any rating; the medal and Prisoner of War plates need no rating.
No Virginia Beach vehicle license fee on one vehicle of a disabled veteran or unremarried surviving spouse with Disabled Veteran plates, on Prisoner of War and Medal of Honor plates, or on a vehicle owned by a nonresident service member stationed in the city.
Disabled Veteran, Prisoner of War, or Medal of Honor plates, or military orders. One vehicle of a disabled veteran exempt from state registration fees, or of a surviving spouse with Disabled Veteran plates; any vehicle with Prisoner of War or Medal of Honor plates; or a vehicle owned solely by a nonresident service member in the city on orders.
Virginia Beach taxes one vehicle of a veteran with limb loss, blindness, or a permanent and total service-connected disability at $1.50 per $100 instead of $4.00. It can sit on a second vehicle alongside the statewide exemption.
Permanent and total, service-connected. One route in Code of Virginia § 58.1-3506(A)(19): a permanent and total service-connected disability. No percentage is named. The current Virginia Beach rate for the class is $1.50 per $100 on one vehicle.
Free help from the Department of Veterans Services preparing, filing, and tracking VA disability, pension, and survivor claims, through offices across Virginia.
A Department of Veterans Services representative meets veterans and families in Fluvanna County on the first Wednesday of every month, 9:00 a.m. to 11:30 a.m., at the Parks and Recreation Center at 5725 James Madison Highway, by appointment through the Charlottesville benefits office.
Disabled Veteran plates for any service-connected rating. One vehicle can be free of the annual registration fee and the annual plate fee when VA certifies limb loss, blindness, or permanent and total disability.
Any service-connected rating. Any veteran VA certifies as having a service-connected disability may get Disabled Veteran plates. DMV lists a $10 annual plate fee in addition to registration, unless the free-fee tier below applies.
A resident lifetime license to hunt, freshwater fish, or both. The fee steps down at 30%, 50%, and 70%, and the license is free when VA rates the veteran totally and permanently disabled.
At least 30% service-connected. The lifetime resident license starts at a 30% service-connected rating. Under 30%, this license is not available. Fees are $100 from 30% to under 50%, $75 from 50% to under 70%, and $50 at 70% or higher when the veteran is not totally and permanently disabled.
DMV sales and use tax exemption on one vehicle bought by or for a veteran VA rates 100% service-connected, permanent, and total.
100% permanent and total. DMV requires a VA benefit summary letter stating a 100% service-connected, permanent, and total disability. One eligible vehicle at a time.
Exemption from local personal property tax on one owned car or pickup used mainly by or for a veteran rated 100% service-connected, permanent, and total. Fairfax also accepts individual unemployability.
100% permanent and total. One owned car or pickup, used mainly by or for the veteran. The statute states the 100% permanent and total path. Fairfax Tax Administration also accepts individual unemployability. One path is a VA rating of 100% that is service-connected, permanent, and total.
A Virginia income-tax subtraction of up to $40,000 of military retirement pay and certain survivor benefits that were included in federal income, for tax year 2025 and later.
Taxable military retirement. The subtraction applies to military retirement and listed survivor benefits that are included in federal income, up to $40,000 for tax year 2025 and later. VA disability compensation is already excluded from federal income and is not subtracted here.
Free Virginia State Parks passport for a veteran with a 100% service-connected disability. It covers parking, admission, boat launch, and horse-trailer parking, plus discounts on camping and some rentals.
100% service-connected. DCR requires paperwork from VA, or from the discharging service, showing a service-connected disability rating of 100%. The page does not require the rating to be permanent and total.
Volusia County waives its $30 daily beach driving fee, and off-beach parking fees in county lots, for a vehicle with a disabled veteran plate from Florida or any other state. Register the plate with ParkVolusia to use the automated ramps and avoid fines.
Vehicle with a disabled veteran plate. A vehicle with a DV plate from Florida or another state. The rating filter cannot test the plate.
Under the Volusia Values Veterans programme, veterans get 10% off county park pavilion, camping and community centre rentals, free primitive camping at county preserves in November, and free general admission to the county's Marine Science Center in Ponce Inlet.
Veterans. Any veteran with proof of service. No rating is needed.
Volusia County's Veterans Services Division helps current and former members and their dependents prepare VA and State claims, free, walk-in or by appointment, at offices in DeLand, Daytona Beach, Deltona and New Smyrna Beach.
Current and former members and dependents. Any current or former member of the Armed Forces, or a dependent. No rating is needed.
The Wagoner County Clerk records instruments at 307 E. Cherokee Street with a published fee schedule that prices ordinary instruments at $18 for the first page and $2 for each additional and names no discharge line, so the State's free DD-214 filing governs - bring the discharge to the clerk and it is recorded without charge under 72 O.S. 22.
Any veteran. Recording a discharge is free and no rating is needed. The rating filter never hides this entry.
Wagoner County's Board of County Commissioners approved an April 20, 2026 Memorandum of Understanding with the Disabled American Veterans for the use of meeting space and associated amenities at the county's 2One6 facility, 216 S. Broadway, Coweta, for veteran-focused events and services.
The Disabled American Veterans chapter using the county facility. The MOU names the DAV as the user of the meeting space for veteran-focused events and services.
The Wake County Register of Deeds records a military discharge free and gives free certified copies to the veteran, a widow or widower, and authorised agents, with the record closed to the public. The recording is done in person.
Veteran, widow or widower, or authorised agent. No rating or fee. Copies go only to the people G.S. 47-113.2 authorises.
Wake County's veterans service office: accredited service officers who file and appeal VA claims for Wake County veterans and families free, with walk-in help for veteran licence plates, hunting and fishing licences and the property tax exclusion, and a yearly Stand Down open to anyone who served, whatever the discharge.
Wake County veteran or family member. The office serves Wake County veterans and their families. The Stand Down takes anyone who served, regardless of length of service or discharge.
Wakulla County's Code creates a grant of $50 a month, up to $600 a year, for residents of at least 180 days who served 30 days or more in a designated combat zone in 2002 or later, claimed by December 31 of the second year after the service; grants are capped at $10,000 a year in all and depend on the Board funding them.
Resident who served 30 days or more in a designated combat zone since 2002. For county residents of 180 days who served at least 30 days in a designated combat zone in a year since 2002, on active duty, in the Reserve or the Guard, or veterans of that service, claimed within two years. A disability rating is not the test.
The Wakulla County Clerk of Circuit Court and Comptroller records a certificate of discharge from the U.S. Armed Forces at no charge, against $10 for the first page of other recordings, and posts a form for a veteran or family member to have a recorded DD-214 removed from the Official Records under section 295.186.
Any veteran. Recording and removing a discharge are free and no rating is needed. The rating filter never hides this entry.
Wakulla County's Veterans Services Office, in the Wakulla County Community Center, 322 Shadeville Road, Crawfordville, helps veterans, spouses and dependents with VA claims; one officer, Winston T. Murphy, keeps office hours of 6:30 to 10 a.m. Monday to Friday, (850) 926-0919 ext. 751, and takes calls outside them on (850) 661-8231.
Veterans, spouses and dependents. For veterans, their spouses and dependents. No rating is needed.
Wakulla Sands Golf Club, the county's own 18-hole course, gives active military members and honorably discharged veterans its local rate: $46 a round on weekdays instead of $67, and $63 on weekends and holidays instead of $76, cart included.
Active military or honorably discharged veteran. For active military members and veterans with an honourable discharge; Wakulla residence is not needed. No rating is needed.
The Walker County Clerk records a veteran's DD-214 discharge at no cost under Local Government Code 192.002, returns the original after recording, keeps the record confidential since September 1, 2003 with only a qualified applicant able to obtain it, and issues certified copies with a military discharge form and current driver's licence.
Any veteran with a discharge. Recording a DD-214 and the first certified copy are free under Local Government Code 192.002; later copies go to qualified applicants with ID. No rating is needed.
Walker County has an active veterans court on the Alabama Administrative Office of Courts' 2026 map. Neither the court system nor the county publishes its eligibility rules online; ask a defence lawyer or the Walker County Veterans Service Office.
Veteran with a criminal case in Walker County. Eligibility is set by the court and is not published. No rating is needed.
Walker County pays for and maintains the HEARTS Veterans Museum of Texas in Huntsville as a county facility: a $20,000 annual payment under its governmental/services contracts (October 2025), county facilities-project money for the museum's flood response and fire-line repair, its lawn maintenance and a 'Veterans Complex' repair line, and a standing 'Receive Financial Information from Hearts Veterans Museum' item on the Commissioners Court agenda.
Veterans and the public visiting the county-supported veterans museum. The county funds and maintains the museum; no eligibility test is published.
The Walla Walla County Auditor's recording office, 500 West Main Street, Walla Walla (509-524-2549), keeps military discharge papers; State law has the auditor record a resident veteran's discharge free, and the county's fee schedule of July 27, 2025 has no charge for it.
Any resident veteran with a discharge. Recording a discharge is free under RCW 73.04.030. No rating is needed.
Walla Walla County District Court's Community Court, a treatment-based programme for nonviolent misdemeanour charges that ends in dismissal on completion, pairs veteran participants with veteran mentors from the Veterans' Relief Advisory Board's Veterans Treatment Court committee; hearings are on the first and third Thursdays at 9 a.m. (coordinator 509-524-2767).
A veteran charged with a nonviolent misdemeanour in Walla Walla County District Court. Entry is by referral and the court team decides. No rating or discharge test is printed.
Walla Walla County's Veterans' Relief Fund, run by the Department of Community Health under guidelines adopted April 6, 2026, pays emergency rent, short hotel stays, utilities, food vouchers, transport, work clothing and tools, burial (up to $1,000 for a veteran) and up to $3,000 of dental care in a lifetime for veterans and families with after-tax income up to 250% of poverty, on public assistance, or unable to meet basic costs, who have lived in the county 60 days.
Indigent: after-tax income up to 250% of poverty, on public assistance, or unable to meet basic costs. One of the guidelines' indigence tests, a qualifying discharge under RCW 73.08.005, and 60 days of Walla Walla County residence. No rating is needed.
The Waller County Clerk records a DD-214 free and gives photocopies and certified copies free, the same day in person at 836 Austin Street, Suite 1200, Hempstead, or within 48 hours by mail with a signed application and a copy of ID; its discharge records run from the First World War to today. 979-826-7711.
Any veteran with a discharge. Recording and copies are free. Copies of a record filed since September 1, 2003 go only to the people section 552.140 lists.
Waller County's tax abatement guidelines, readopted on November 19, 2025, waive the $1,000 application fee and cut the minimum new investment from $1,000,000 to $500,000 for a veteran-owned facility (at least 51% owned by a current service member or a veteran with an honorable or general discharge) seeking a county tax abatement for a qualifying new plant, hospital, urgent care, distribution or similar facility.
Veteran-owned business. At least 51% owned by a current service member or a veteran with an honorable or general discharge, shown by a DoD ID or DD-214. No rating is needed.
Waller County's Veterans Service Officer, Everett Kelly, works from the Waller County Community Center next to the Prairie View post office, 21274 FM 1098, Prairie View, 979-826-7733, helping veterans, dependents and survivors claim VA and Texas benefits, from compensation and pension to burial, home loans and the Hazlewood Act; call for an appointment.
Veterans, dependents and survivors. For veterans and their dependents and survivors. No rating is needed.
The Walton County Clerk of Superior Court, third floor of the government building at 303 South Hammond Drive, Monroe, records a veteran's discharge permanently with no filing fee and no fee for copies, certified or otherwise; the records are closed for 50 years and released only to the veteran, a spouse or next of kin, an attorney in fact, a legal representative or their attorney.
Any veteran with a discharge. Recording and copies are free; the listed relatives and agents may obtain copies. No rating is needed.
Walton County's disability beach driving permit, $10 a year plus $40 for a launch, lets a permanently disabled Walton County resident drive a four-wheel-drive vehicle on the permitted beach; a VA 100% disability letter is accepted as proof. Applications open May 1 for the June 1 to May 31 season, at Code Compliance, 46 Coastal Centre Blvd., Santa Rosa Beach.
100% VA letter, or another proof of permanent disability. A VA 100% disability letter is one accepted proof; a disability placard or plate also qualifies, so the filter does not hide the entry on rating alone.
Walton County's Veteran Services Office, 76 North 6th Street, Suite B, DeFuniak Springs, (850) 892-8140, helps veterans and families claim VA compensation, pension, burial, education, medical, housing and auto grants and appeals, and visits veterans in nursing homes and assisted living; by appointment, Monday to Thursday 7 to 5. Director Wade Wilmoth.
Veterans and families. For veterans, spouses and children. No rating is needed.
Walworth County’s CVSO office on County Road NN in Elkhorn quantifies its 45.86 aid in commission minutes - $28,673.63 in the first half of 2026, mostly grave-care reimbursements and gas cards - alongside $1.86 million of won federal benefits.
Any veteran or family member. The office assists Walworth County veterans and their families with claims and county aid. No rating is required, so the rating filter never hides this benefit.
Walworth County veterans facing charges are served by the Second Judicial District veterans treatment court, whose hearings sit at the Racine County Courthouse and which serves Kenosha, Racine and Walworth Counties.
Veteran defendant, court-decided admission. The Second Judicial District veterans treatment court admits veteran defendants the court finds suitable from Kenosha, Racine and Walworth Counties; there is no right to participation.
The Ward County Clerk (Denise Valles, 400 S. Allen, Suite 101, Monahans, 432-943-3294) posts fee schedules with no military-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 Ward County Commissioners Court (County Judge Greg M. Holly) adopted on August 24, 2026 a 2027 budget that keeps the veterans service officer at $29,192, and on August 10, 2026 took no action on discounts at the county golf course for veterans and first responders; none of its 26 minutes of the year names another veterans item, and 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.
Ward County’s three-person office in the Minot courthouse annex assists with federal and state claims, and is the only door to the county’s military discharge records, which the recorder holds confidential.
Any veteran or dependent. The office assists veterans and their dependents with federal and state benefits. No rating is required, so the rating filter never hides this benefit.
The Ware County Board of Commissioners - Chairman Elmer Thrift (term expires December 31, 2028; 912-548-7253), District 1 Commissioner Leonard Burse (2026; 912-281-7196), District 2 Commissioner Jon Tindall (2028), District 3 Commissioner Timmy Lucas (2026) and District 4 Commissioner Barry Cox (2028), with County Manager James Shubert and County Clerk Melinda Brooks, at 305 Oak Street, Suite 227, Waycross (912-287-4300), meeting in work session and regular session every second Monday - whose 2025-2026 record (160 files read whole) carries one veteran item: the October 13, 2025 regular meeting's unanimous motion by Commissioner Burse, seconded by Commissioner Cox, adding Veterans' Day to the list of Ware County Approved Holidays - Burse's son a veteran and two of his granddaughters actively serving in the U.S. Navy - with the day now on the county's holiday list; American Legion Post 517 meets in Waycross.
No eligibility - a board record. The record documents the board’s posted 2025-2026 files and the county’s veterans organizations; it grants no individual entitlement.
The Ware County Clerk of Superior Court - Samantha Bennett, elected 2025, 800 Church St., P.O. Box 776 (31502), Waycross, GA 31501 (912-490-4340, fax 912-490-2498) - is the county's recorder of military discharges under O.C.G.A. 15-6-72 and 15-6-78; the county's site publishes no clerk page (the department nodes name the County Court System, the Board of Assessors and the rest, and no clerk), so the free recording and the 50-year closure rest on the State entries and the Cooperative Authority's row.
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 Ware County Tax Commissioner - Roger Collins, 305 Oak Street, Suite 115A, Waycross, GA 31501 (P.O. Box 1825; 912-490-4305, fax 912-287-4468, [email protected], weekdays 8:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., warecountytax.com) - and the Board of Tax Assessors (Chief Appraiser Billy Carter, 305 Oak Street, 912-490-4383; the board at 305 Oak Street, Suite 154) take the exemptions with the county's own Homestead Exemptions table: "Veterans (S5, SS) - Must be 100% disabled-service connected; Letter from Veteran Affairs verifying disability; Unremarried surviving spouse or minor children may also qualify - Amounts deducted from Assessed Value (40% FMV): State-$50,000; County-$50,000; School-$50,000", the pre-indexing base amounts beside the State entries.
Qualifying disabled veteran or surviving spouse who owns and occupies the home. The exemption follows O.C.G.A. 48-5-48 and 48-5-52.1; the county’s own table prints the base amounts and the State entries the indexed ones. The rating filter never hides this entry.
The Warren County Recorder of Deeds, 101 Mockingbird Lane, Suite 303, Warrenton (636-456-9800), records military discharge papers and posts the Recorders Association of Missouri's DD-214 request form; recording and copies are free under RSMo 59.480, and military separation papers are exempt from the non-standard document fee.
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 Warren County Register & Recorder, Lisa A. Burkhouse, at 204 Fourth Avenue (814-728-3430), keeps the county's land and vital records and records discharges free under 16 Pa.C.S. Chapter 13; the office's updated fee schedule names no charge for a discharge.
Any veteran. Recording a discharge is free and no rating is needed. The rating filter never hides this entry.
The Warren County Board of Supervisors (Brian Arnold chair, Travis DeWitt vice chair, Aaron DeKock, Stephanie Erickson, Crystal McIntyre; first and third Tuesdays) carried the window's veteran items on its posted agendas: the November 6, 2025 Operation Green Light proclamation and the October 20, 2026 Operation Green Light for Veterans 2026 proclamation, the annual homestead, military and Disabled Veteran's Homestead Tax Credit certifications (December 2, 2025 and July 7, 2026), the February 3, 2026 Warren County Freedom Rock funds, the June 16 and October 6, 2026 Veteran Affairs Commission appointments (Gregory Jenkins to 6/30/2028), the August 4, 2026 part-time CVSO backfill and the October 6, 2026 CVSO payroll removal, and the Carlisle VFW Post 2099's $1,061.00 tax item.
No eligibility - a board record. The record documents the Board’s proclamations, certifications and appointments; it grants no individual entitlement.
The Warren County Chancery Clerk, Beverly Johnson (Vicksburg, 601-636-4415), lists recording and preserving military discharges among the office’s duties; Mississippi’s chancery clerks record a discharge without cost under section 35-3-13, and the record is kept confidential.
Veteran with a discharge to record. The statute takes the filing free and sets who may get copies. The rating filter never hides this entry.