The Wayne County Board of Commissioners - District 1 Mike Gordon, District 2 Kevin McCrary, District 3 Tim Hopkins, District 4 James "Boot" Thomas and District 5 Randy Franks, a five-member board that elects its chairman at each January meeting, with County Administrator Paul Drawdy and County Clerk Amanda Hannah at the Administration Building, 341 E. Walnut St., Jesup (912-427-5900), meeting monthly at 6:00 p.m. - whose 2025-2026 record (25 posted agendas, read whole; the Document Center posts no minutes for the board) names no veteran item, while the county's own calendar closes the offices for the Veterans Day holiday and the board's site carries the county's Military Discharge Records page; American Legion Posts 311 and 529 meet in Jesup.
No eligibility - a board record. The record documents the board’s posted 2025-2026 agendas and the county’s veterans organizations; it grants no individual entitlement.
The Wayne County Clerk of Courts - Frances Yeargan, with Chief Deputy Doe Erwin, Courthouse Annex behind the courthouse, 174 North Brunswick Street, Jesup (912-427-5930, fax 912-427-5939, 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, and the county's own Military Discharge Records page prints the fullest line of the round: "Veterans are provided the opportunity to record and permanently preserve their military discharge" - Copy 4 of DD Form 214 or any raised-seal copy - "There is no filing fee for this service, nor is there a fee for obtaining copies, certified or otherwise."
Any veteran with a discharge. The recording and the copies are free under the county’s own page and O.C.G.A. 15-6-78; the record is closed for fifty years under 15-6-72. No rating is needed.
The county's fee ordinance makes copies of a recorded military discharge free to the veteran, anyone with the veteran's permission, the heirs and a service officer helping with a claim. Records under 70 years old are not public.
The veteran, heirs or a service officer. Free copies go to the veteran, a person with permission, the heirs and a service officer helping with a claim. No rating is needed.
The Wayne County Commission’s 2025-2026 veteran record: $2,392 to the Wayne County Veteran’s Association for six flag poles at Wayne Veteran’s Park on East Lynn Road (April 21, 2026), $500 toward the WV Marine Corps Coordinating Council’s Military and Veterans Appreciation Picnic of May 30, 2026 (March 16, 2026), and the courthouse closing for Veterans Day, November 11, 2026.
No eligibility - a board record. The record documents the commission’s veteran gifts; it grants no individual entitlement.
The Wayne County Recorder of Deeds, Cindy Stout, 109 Walnut Street, Greenville (573-224-5600, ext. 257), lists "Military Discharge - No Charge" in her fee schedule; RSMo 59.480 makes the recording and copies free and limits copies to the veteran or an authorized party.
Any veteran with a discharge. Recording and copies are free under the State statute; copies go only to the veteran or the people 59.480 names. No rating is needed.
The Wayne County Register of Deeds, 224-226 E. Walnut Street, Suite 100, Goldsboro (919-731-1449), records a DD-214 and gives certified copies free; only the veteran, or after death the spouse with a certified death certificate, can get one, with ID.
Any veteran. Free; no rating is needed. The rating filter never hides this entry.
Wayne County's veterans relief fund helps an indigent wartime veteran, spouse or child with food, furniture, moving costs, utilities, rent or mortgage, delinquent property taxes, home and car repairs and car payments. The county's own ordinance is wider than its web page: it accepts a discharge under honorable conditions and the merchant marine.
Indigent, with a current hardship. The fund helps veterans and families who cannot meet basic needs without hardship. The ordinance treats a valid Medicaid card or a homeless shelter stay as indigence. No rating is needed.
The Wayne County Tax Commissioner - Ally O'Quinn Harnage, 341 E. Walnut St., Jesup (912-427-5910, [email protected], weekdays 8:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., P.O. Box 287, waynegatax.com) - whose own Property page requires homestead applications to be "received by March 1 of the year for which the exemption is first claimed" and prints no veteran amounts, while the county's Board of Tax Assessors (Chairman Bill Parker, Chief Appraiser Kimberly Wilson) approves the county's veteran exemptions monthly - the July 30, 2026 meeting approved "the July 2026 Veteran Exemptions as listed below" and the August 27, 2026 meeting approved the August 2026 Veteran Exemptions for named parcels, all unanimously.
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 assessor’s office takes the application by the county’s March 1 line and the board approves the veteran exemptions monthly. The rating filter never hides this entry.
Wayne County Veterans Services, 2001 E. Ash Street, Goldsboro, 919-731-1490, sees veterans, dependants and survivors first come, first served (no appointments) Monday to Wednesday 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. for claims and VA hearings; Thursday and Friday are paper days. Director Amy D. Smith.
Veteran, dependant or survivor. No rating or fee.
The Third Circuit Court runs a veterans treatment court in Detroit, and district courts in Detroit, Dearborn, Redford and Southgate run their own. The circuit court says the prosecutor and the judge decide every admission and violent offenders are excluded.
Veteran with 180 days of active duty and a pending case. Michigan veterans courts take a veteran under MCL 35.61 with 180 days of active duty whose offense is generally related to service. No rating is needed.
Wayne County keeps no veterans office of its own; the nearest West Virginia Department of Veterans Assistance office is the Huntington Claim Office (640 4th Avenue, Huntington, 304-399-9395; supervisor Joe Diedrich, service officers Robert Pauley and Collin Elliott), which files VA and State claims free of charge.
Veterans, surviving spouses and families. Free help filing VA and state benefit claims; no rating is needed to ask.
The Webb County Clerk's office (Margie R. Ibarra, 1110 Victoria St., Suite 201, Laredo, 956-523-4266) records DD-214s and issues certified copies of recorded discharges at no charge - and charges veterans nothing for copies or certified copies of its official public records.
Veterans and their eligible family members. Recording a DD-214 and obtaining certified copies of the recorded discharge cost nothing; certified copies go to the veteran and the family members the statute lists.
The Webb County Commissioners Court's October 2025 to October 2026 agenda record - 28 meetings read whole, 40 files by OCR - carries the veterans transportation grants and their staffing, the regional veterans treatment court's TVC and SAMHSA funding and service contracts, the ARPA-funded veterans building rehabilitation, the ADA van lease and the veterans-assistance line transfers, with no veteran benefit adopted, narrowed or repealed.
No eligibility - a board record. The record documents the county’s veterans-services administration; it grants no individual entitlement.
Webb County's Veterans Treatment Program runs the regional veterans treatment court at 4101 Juarez Ave., Laredo (director Margarita D. Garza, 956-523-4654) on the drug-court model for veterans whose service-related PTSD, TBI, substance use or mental-health condition affected their criminal conduct, funded by a Texas Veterans Commission regional grant and a SAMHSA grant.
Justice-involved veteran with a service-related condition. A veteran or service member with a pending charge whose service-related PTSD, TBI, substance-use or mental-health condition affected the conduct, who volunteers and pleads guilty. A disability rating is not the test.
Weber County's veterans page lists resources - the George E. Wahlen Ogden Veterans Home, the Utah Department of Veterans and Military Affairs, VA and PACT Act information - and takes recognition submissions through the County Commission Office, but names no county veteran services office.
Veterans and families in Weber County. The resources and recognition routes are open to veterans and their families. No rating is needed.
The Webster County Recorder of Deeds, Stacy Atkison, 101 N. Crittenden, Room 16, Marshfield (417-859-5882), records military discharge papers (DD-214) and issues copies of them; recording and copies are free under RSMo 59.480 and go only to the veteran or an authorized party.
Any veteran with a discharge. Recording and copies are free under the State statute; copies go only to the veteran or the people 59.480 names. No rating is needed.
Webster County’s section 80-102 Veterans Aid Fund holds $3,470.63, levies nothing and paid nothing in 2023-2024 or 2024-2025; 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 Webster County, and need the committee assesses; the county page’s wartime test no longer applies. No rating is required.
Webster County’s part-time Veterans Service Office in the Red Cloud courthouse, open Mondays and Wednesdays under Veterans Service Officer Gary Ratzlaff, who also sits on the County Board, helps with federal, State and county claims and gives every veteran’s grave its first flag holder free; the county is a veterans preference employer.
Any Webster County veteran or dependent. Claims help, grave flag holders and homestead help need no rating; the rating filter never hides this entry.
The Weld County Clerk and Recorder's records include military discharges, and a Military Discharge Copy Request form obtains copies of a recorded DD-214 from the office at 1250 H Street, Greeley, weekdays 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Any veteran. Recording a discharge is free and no rating is needed. The rating filter never hides this entry.
The West Georgia Circuit Veterans Treatment Court serves Carroll County under Judge John Simpson with coordinator Brittney Jenkins at (678) 390-6204; the Council of Accountability Court Judges lists it as begun July 2023, replacing the older Coweta-circuit court that had taken Carroll cases since 2015.
A veteran with a pending eligible case in the court. The court is for a veteran with a pending eligible case who is referred and accepted. A disability rating is not the test.
Allegan County's 57th District Court runs the West Michigan Regional Veterans Treatment Court for Allegan, Ottawa and Van Buren counties with the State and VA: a treatment docket for veterans in the criminal courts with substance use or mental health needs, at 113 Chestnut Street, Allegan (269-673-0347), with its handbook, questionnaire and referral form on the court's page.
Justice-involved veteran. The court is for a veteran with a pending eligible case who is referred and accepted. A disability rating is not the test.
Ottawa County veterans charged with a crime are served by the West Michigan Regional Veterans Treatment Court at the 57th District Court in Allegan, shared with Allegan and Van Buren counties, with misdemeanour and felony tracks. Its 2023 handbook sets a programme fee of $500 or $900.
Veteran with a pending case in Allegan, Ottawa or Van Buren. The statute takes a veteran under MCL 35.61 with 180 days of active duty whose offense is related to service, and bars violent offenders. No rating is needed.
West Virginia does not broadly exempt active duty pay. There is a one-time deduction in the year you separate, and an older exemption limited to two named call-ups.
No disability rating involved. These are modifications for serving and separating members. No rating applies, so the rating filter never hides this entry.
West Virginia Code 61-7-4(q) exempts an honorably discharged veteran of the armed forces, reserves or National Guard from the $50 fee and costs of a resident licence to carry a concealed pistol or revolver; apply to your county sheriff with the DD-214, and military handgun qualification meets the training requirement.
No disability rating required. Code 61-7-4(q) turns on an honorable discharge from the armed forces, reserves or National Guard. No rating applies, so the rating filter never hides this entry.
No license at all, not a discount, for a resident veteran at 100% permanent and total. Former POWs and VA vehicle grant recipients reach it by a second route the rating filter cannot see.
A pension based on total permanent service-connected disability. Subsection (g) covers a resident, honorably discharged veteran who receives a veteran's pension based on total permanent service-connected disability as certified by the Veterans Administration. This route is written around a total and permanent award rather than a bare percentage.
Park at any metered space in any West Virginia municipality without paying. The plate designation is the credential, and without it the benefit does not exist.
A Purple Heart qualifies with no rating at all. The section covers any person awarded the Purple Heart alongside any disabled veteran, and states no disability percentage, so the rating filter never hides this entry.
Plates for disabled veterans, Purple Heart, Medal of Honor, the service crosses, and Pearl Harbor survivors, exempt from all registration fees. A surviving spouse may keep the plate.
Several categories need no rating at all. Purple Heart, Medal of Honor, Distinguished Service Cross, Navy Cross, Air Force Cross, and Pearl Harbor survivor are award and service categories with no disability percentage attached, so the rating filter never hides this entry.
All military retired pay is exempt from West Virginia income tax with no cap and no age test, and survivor annuities come out with it.
No rating, no age, no cap. The exemption turns only on the income being military or uniformed services retirement pay included in federal adjusted gross income. No disability rating, age, or length of service affects it, so the rating filter never hides this entry.
Fully exempt for every taxpayer from the 2026 tax year, the end of a three-year phase-in that only ever applied to higher incomes.
No rating and no veteran status required. This is a general income tax modification available to every West Virginia taxpayer with Social Security benefits. The rating filter never hides this entry.
Ten percent off lodge rooms, cabins, and campsites year-round for any veteran or serving member, with no rating and no residency requirement.
No rating, no residency, no wartime service. The discount is available to veterans and active duty military personnel with proof of service. Nothing about a disability rating, state of residence, or era of service affects it, so the rating filter never hides this entry.
One vehicle free of registration fees at 100% permanent and total, for a former POW, or for a Medal of Honor recipient. A VA vehicle grant lifts the one-vehicle limit.
100% total and permanent for the one-vehicle exemption. Subdivision (5) exempts not more than one non-commercial vehicle owned by a veteran with a one hundred percent total and permanent service-connected disability, certified by the Director of the Department of Veterans' Affairs of West Virginia.
An honorably discharged veteran can have the designation added, and gets a free replacement license if that is the only reason for it.
No disability rating required. The designation requires an honorable discharge and acceptable documentation. No rating applies, so the rating filter never hides this entry.
Available to any active, retired, or honorably discharged member for a $10 initial fee on top of the regular registration, and to the next of kin of a member killed in combat.
No disability rating required. The plate is available to any active, retired, or honorably discharged military member. No rating applies, so the rating filter never hides this entry.
The Westchester County Clerk's Legal Division records a DD-214 free, returns it at once, keeps it sealed, and gives a free image whenever the veteran needs one. The Clerk also issues the free veteran's peddler licence.
An honorable discharge. Recording, copies and the licence are free. No rating is needed.
Westchester County Parks issues a free three-year Veterans Park Pass to resident veterans, and a free Disabled Veterans Park Pass to residents with a service-connected disability, bringing park pass rates at the six County golf courses, pools, beaches and parking. Active duty members get a free one-year Military Park Pass.
Westchester residence and proof of veteran status. The pass is free; the disabled veterans pass needs a service-connected disability at any rating.
Westchester County's Veterans Service Agency in White Plains, formed in 1945, files VA claims and appeals at no cost through accredited service officers and helps with State and County benefits. Call 914-813-5145 for an appointment.
Veterans, dependents and survivors. Any veteran or family member can use the agency. No rating is needed.
Westchester's veterans treatment court sits in Westchester County Court in White Plains, linking veterans charged with crimes to VA care and veteran mentors under the court's supervision, whatever their discharge.
A veteran with a criminal case in Westchester. Every character of discharge is accepted. No rating is needed.
Oconee County's veterans docket is the Western Judicial Circuit Veterans Treatment Court - the Council of Accountability Court Judges' directory lists it under Superior Court Judge H. Patrick Haggard with coordinator Christia Martinez, serving "Clarke and Oconee" since September 2014, the Western Circuit's Superior Court in Athens being the adjoining county's courthouse - where the unified government's own budget record describes a multi-phase programme with veteran mentors and veteran-specific treatment; the statute is O.C.G.A. 15-1-17.
Justice-involved veteran. The docket takes veterans charged with an offense who volunteer and plea in; a disability rating is not the test.
Westmoreland grants the one-vehicle exemption on its personal property application - a passenger car or pickup or panel truck registered for personal use, effective from acquisition or January 1, 2021, with reapplication on a vehicle change - at a combined 2026-27 personal property rate of $3.75.
100% permanent and total. One owned motor vehicle used mainly by or for the veteran, named on the application and refiled on a vehicle change. Westmoreland accepts a disability compensated at the 100% rate. One path is a VA rating of 100% that is service-connected, permanent, and total.
Westmoreland charges a $40.75 annual license tax on automobiles ($28.75 motorcycle, $20.38 farm vehicle, $51.75 heavy duty, $45.75 motorhome, $18.00 trailers) and exempts any owner exempted from state registration fees, which covers a disabled veteran’s plated vehicle under section 46.2-755.
Westmoreland County Veterans Affairs & Services, at 2 N. Main Street in Greensburg, is the county director of veterans affairs' office: accredited service officers file VA and State claims, take the burial and headstone applications and keep copies of recorded discharges. Officers also sit at WCCC Youngwood on Fridays, the Greensburg VA clinic, Donegal, West Newton and New Kensington.
Veterans, spouses and widows. Any veteran, spouse or survivor can use the office. No rating is needed.
Westmoreland County's Veterans Court takes veterans facing most misdemeanours and low-level felonies, with the District Attorney's consent, and pairs them with volunteer veteran mentors and VA Pittsburgh's rehabilitative programmes. Anyone, including the veteran's family, can refer, ideally before the preliminary hearing.
A veteran with a Westmoreland County criminal case. Admission needs the District Attorney's consent. No rating is needed.
The Westmoreland County Recorder of Deeds records a DD-214 free, and a veteran who recorded one can get a certified replacement copy free from Veterans Affairs & Services in Greensburg.
Any discharge. Recording and copies are free. No rating is needed.
The Wexford County Clerk in Cadillac (231-779-9450) keeps the military discharges recorded with the county and releases copies only to those who qualify - the veteran, a person with the veteran’s permission or the surviving heirs - by mail, email or in person, with a photo ID and proof of relationship for anyone but the veteran.
The veteran, someone with permission, or surviving heirs. Copies go only to those MCL 35.32 names; no rating is needed.
Wexford County’s Veterans Services Committee keeps an Emergency Relief Fund - $89,934.33 on hand at the end of February 2026 - and votes on veterans’ emergency assistance requests in closed session at its monthly meeting (eight in February 2026, seven granted from $370 to $1,000, one referred to financial planning), alongside the Michigan Veterans Trust Fund applications its committee reviews; apply through Veteran Services, 231-775-6654.
Wexford County veterans in need. Emergency relief is decided case by case by the committee; no rating is needed.
The Wharton County Clerk (Barbara Svatek, 309 East Milam Street, Suite 700, Wharton, 979-532-2381) prints "Military Records (DD-214) NO CHARGE" in its fee schedule.
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 Wharton County Commissioners Court (County Judge Phillip Spenrath) accepts the Veteran Services monthly report on its consent agenda, approved a copy machine lease for the office (January 26, 2026), heard the invitation to the rededication of the Wharton County Veterans Memorial (April 13, 2026), and budgets $1,000 a year for veterans memorials; 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.
No property tax exemption, no income tax exemption for military retired pay, no territorial tuition waiver, and no cash bonus. The Commonwealth’s veterans article is about an office, a cemetery, and employment.
Nothing to apply for on tax or tuition. There is no veterans property tax exemption, no exemption for military retired pay, and no territorial tuition waiver in the Commonwealth Code\u2019s veterans article or elsewhere that this catalog has found. No rating threshold applies because no benefit exists to gate.