Miscellaneous

Bucks County's Register of Wills and Clerk of Orphans' Court runs Wills for Heroes with the Pennsylvania Bar Association's Young Lawyers Division: free estate plans for Pennsylvania veterans and first responders, prepared by volunteer lawyers at scheduled events.

A Pennsylvania veteran or first responder. The plans are free. No rating is needed.

Buffalo City Court started the country's first veterans treatment court in 2008, and it remains Erie County's: veterans charged with crimes are linked to VA care and veteran mentors under the court's supervision, whatever their discharge.

A veteran with a criminal case. Every character of discharge is accepted. Eligibility is decided case by case. No rating is needed.

Buffalo County’s Veteran Service Office in the Kearney courthouse, under Veteran Service Officer Matthew Starkey, files federal, state and county claims and does the county’s own veteran paperwork: the VA letters that carry disabled veterans’ homestead exemptions to the Assessor, grave registration cards, Presidential Memorial Certificates for every deceased county veteran, and the bronze grave flag holders it inventories each year.

Any Buffalo County veteran, dependent or survivor. Claims help, grave registration, memorial certificates and flag holders need no rating; the homestead letter and flag holders follow the State programmes’ own tests.

Buffalo County’s Veterans Service Committee decides each county aid application in open session every month and records the amount; in July 2026 it added urgent mental health treatment to the aid it will pay, and its proposed 2026-2027 budget sets $44,399.79 for aid while the county levied no veterans’ aid tax for the year.

Veteran, spouse, surviving spouse or minor child in need. Section 80-102 as amended in 2024: honorable or general (under honorable conditions) service, one year in Nebraska and six months in Buffalo County, and need the committee assesses case by case. No rating is required.

The Bulloch County Board of Commissioners (Chairman David Bennett; Anthony Simmons, Ray Mosley, Timmy Rushing, Ray Davis and Nick Newkirk; Clerk of the Board Venus Mincey-White) presented its Veterans Day proclamation at the November 4, 2025 meeting with VFW Post 10825 Commander Larry Shatteen, American Legion Post 90 Commander Bobby Godwin and GSU Police Chief Trey Drawdy, and announced the Averitt Center ceremony with Major General Randall Simmons and the American Legion luncheon; no benefit was adopted, narrowed or repealed.

No eligibility - a board record. The proclamation honours veterans; it sets no application route. The rating filter never hides this entry.

The Bulloch County Clerk of Superior, State and Juvenile Court (Heather Banks McNeal, Bulloch County Judicial Annex, 20 Siebald Street, Statesboro, 912-764-9009) records a veteran's military discharge in the Real Estate Division for no filing fee and no fee for copies, certified or otherwise, with the record confidential for 50 years under O.C.G.A. 15-6-72.

Any veteran with a discharge. Recording and copies are free per the clerk’s page and the statute; the record is confidential for 50 years. No rating is needed.

The Bulloch County Tax Commissioner (Leslie Deal Akins, Bulloch County Annex, 113 North Main Street, Statesboro, 912-764-6285, www.bullochtaxcommissioner.com) takes the homestead exemption applications and posts the disabled-veteran amounts on its own Tax Exemptions page: $117,014 (the 2024 amount, subject to change each year per the Department of Revenue) under O.C.G.A. 48-5-48, and the same figure for the unremarried surviving spouse of a service member killed in a war or armed conflict under O.C.G.A. 48-5-52.1.

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 posted amount is the 2024 figure. The rating filter never hides this entry.

At Lake Julian Park, Buncombe County sells veterans the same reduced fishing permits as people 65 and over: $10 a year instead of $25, or $3 a day instead of $4, under the fiscal 2027 fee schedule.

Veteran. Any veteran, no rating. The lifetime permit is for people 70 and over or the disabled.

Buncombe County's veterans office in downtown Asheville, free to clients and paid for by the county and State, helps veterans, service members, Guard and reserve members and families with VA claims. Its benefit pages are years out of date on burial allowances, life insurance and GI Bill time limits.

Veteran, service member, Guard or reserve member, or family. No rating or fee. Each VA benefit has its own test.

A county-coordinated veterans treatment court in Superior Court for Buncombe County residents with a mental health or substance use disorder charged with lower-level felonies or misdemeanours. Anyone with at least one day of active duty or VA medical care qualifies, with any discharge except dishonorable.

At least one day of active duty or VA medical care; any discharge but dishonorable. Buncombe County resident, 18 or older, with a mental health or substance use disorder and an eligible charge, approved by the District Attorney. No rating is required.

Burke County Animal Services, 636 Kirksey Drive, Morganton (828-764-9588), charges a veteran no adoption fee - the Board's fee schedule sets the Veteran Adoption Fee at $0.00 per animal for FY 2025-26 and FY 2026-27, against $40 for a dog and $20 for a cat.

Any veteran adopting from the county shelter. No rating is needed; the fee schedule names veterans without further test.

The Burke County Board of Commissioners - Chairman Evans Martin (District 3), Vice Chairman Terri Lodge Kelly (District 2), District 1 Commissioner Rodney Braswell, District 4 Commissioner R. Tommy Nix and District 5 Commissioner Q.U. "Art" Lively III, with County Manager Merv Waldrop and County Attorney Adam Nelson, at 602 N. Liberty Street, Waynesboro (706-554-2324) - whose 2025-2026 record (154 agenda and minutes files read whole) carries two veteran items: the June 10, 2025 unanimous renewal of the lease for the Veterans Service office ($260.00 per month, July 1, 2025 through June 30, 2026, Commissioner Nix's motion, Commissioner Kelly's second) and the November 11, 2025 meeting's "Chair Martin then recognized all attending veterans"; American Legion Posts 120 and 270 meet in Waynesboro and Post 180 in Sardis.

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 Burke County Clerk of Superior, State and Juvenile Courts - Radeta G. Smith, Burke County Judicial Center, 200 East 6th Street, P.O. Box 803, Waynesboro (706-554-2279, [email protected], 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 page names her offices and duties 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.

Burke County's Register of Deeds, 201 S. Green Street, Morganton (828-764-9340), records a military discharge and gives certified copies to the veteran or other authorized people free, and issues a free Thank-a-Veteran discount ID card, accepted at participating local businesses, to a veteran whose DD-214 is recorded there.

A veteran with a DD-214. Recording and copies are free under the statute; the discount card needs the discharge recorded in Burke County. No rating is needed.

The Burke County Tax Commissioner - Marian S. Jackson, 524 Myrick Street Suite A, Waynesboro (706-554-3223, fax 706-554-8746, burkecountytax.com, weekdays 8:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. plus the first and third Saturday 9:00 a.m. to 12:00 noon) - and the Board of Tax Assessors (Chief Appraiser Phillip W. Wren, 524 Myrick Street Suite B, 706-554-2607) publish no veteran exemption amounts of their own: the commissioner's Property page carries the tax-return and appeal routes and no exemption text, the assessors' qPublic record-search site was not read, and the State entries carry the veteran amounts.

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.

Burleigh County’s office on the courthouse square in Bismarck assists with federal and state claims, runs a free van to the Fargo VA medical center, and changed officers in November 2025 after a twenty-two-year incumbent retired.

Any veteran, family member or survivor. The office advises veterans, family members and survivors and assists with claims and applications for federal and state benefits. No rating is required, so the rating filter never hides this benefit.

The Burleson County Clerk (Anna L. Schielack, 100 West Buck, Suite 203, Caldwell, 979-567-2329) posts no military-discharge line on its page, fee sheet 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 Burleson County Commissioners Court (County Judge Keith Schroeder) approved on November 10, 2025 an application for the Texas Veterans Commission’s FY27 veteran county service office funding, received the officer’s 2025 report on January 12, 2026, and adopted an FY2027 budget on September 8, 2026 that keeps the office at $14,401; 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.

The County Clerk registers any veteran’s DD-214 at no charge (certified copies extra), and issues peddler’s licenses to honorably discharged veterans who have lived in New Jersey six months and Burlington County three months, on a DD-214, after NJ Department of Defense approval.

Honorably discharged veterans. Registration is open to any veteran; the peddler licence needs an honorable discharge, six months of New Jersey residence and three months of Burlington County residence.

Burlington County’s own veterans office at 795 Woodlane Road, Westampton, (609) 265-5008, staffed by named veteran service officers, serves active-duty personnel and veterans, and hosts PTSD readjustment counseling with the Trenton Vet Center on Tuesdays.

Active-duty personnel and veterans. The department serves active-duty military personnel and veterans of Burlington County. No rating is required.

The Sheriff’s Office issues a free Veteran ID card on an honorable DD-214 and proof of residency, Monday to Friday 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., (609) 265-3788; the County Clerk issues free Gold Star Family ID cards, and the county waives animal-shelter adoption fees for military personnel and veterans and their families.

Honorably discharged veterans and Gold Star families. The Sheriff’s card needs an honorable DD-214 and county residency; the Gold Star card is for the immediate family of a service member who died on active duty. No rating is required.

A free round-trip shuttle to the Philadelphia VA Medical Center runs Tuesday through Friday, arriving 9:30 a.m. and departing 2:30 p.m., with seats reserved through Sen-Han Transit at 877-603-5111 by 11 a.m. the day before.

Burlington County veterans with appointments at the Philadelphia VAMC. The shuttle is free; a reservation by 11 a.m. the day before is the only condition.

Burnet County's Clerk fee schedule (effective January 1, 2024) prices the military discharge DD-214 filing at $1.00 under Local Government Code 192.002(b) and a certified copy at No Charge under Government Code 603.003(a), closing 'Thank you for your service!'; the State entries carry the free-recording rule and the confidentiality list.

Any veteran with a discharge. Recording is free by statute; certified copies go to the people the statutes list. No rating is needed.

Burt County keeps no separate section 80-102 aid fund: it budgets $6,000 a year of veterans aid costs in its general fund, paid $1,700 in 2023-2024 and nothing in 2024-2025, and in November 2025 paid $1,800 into a county service fund for veterans.

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 Burt County, and need the committee assesses. No rating is required.

Burt County’s part-time Veterans Service Office in the Tekamah courthouse, under Veterans Service Officer Penny Warren, helps veterans and dependents with VA benefits and medical centre eligibility, Wednesday to Friday; the county hires as a veterans preference employer.

Any Burt County veteran, dependent or survivor. Claims help needs no rating; the rating filter never hides this entry.

Butler County publishes no commission agendas or minutes on its website - the record for the year is the county's own BUILD Grant Award press release (August 2026, a one-page infographic for the new Black River Bridge and flood-resilient roadway) with the Daily American Republic's July 8, 2026 coverage beside it, and neither carries a veteran item; 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.

The Butler County Recorder of Deeds (Debby Lundstrom, Room 106 of the Courthouse at 100 N. Main Street, 573-686-8086) files and maintains military discharges; the DD-214 index is closed and copies go only to authorized parties under RSMo 59.480, and no discharge filing fee is published.

Any veteran with a discharge. Recording is free under the State statute; copies go only to the veteran or an authorized party. No rating is needed.

The Butler County Recorder records a discharge and gives certified copies free, keeps it from the public, and issues a free veteran ID card valid ten years on two forms of identification from the statute's list. The card is needed for the commission's dental programme.

A recorded discharge that is not dishonorable. Recording is free for any discharge; the card needs a discharge recorded in Butler County that is not dishonorable. No rating is needed.

Temporary help with housing, utilities, food, car repairs, clothing, day care and other basic costs for a Butler County veteran or family who shows a definite financial need at a face-to-face interview. The commission asks for an Ohio ID or driver's licence, and its eligibility page narrows the statute for families.

Discharge under honorable conditions, county residence. A veteran with a discharge under honorable conditions and a day of active duty outside training, a service member, or the family members 5901.08 lists, resident in the county. The commission also asks for an Ohio ID. No rating is needed.

Butler County’s Veterans Service Office in the David City courthouse, under Veterans Service Officer Erin Robinson, files VA and State claims, handles county and State veterans aid, burial and survivor benefits, and buys bronze grave markers; since July 2026 it is open Tuesday to Friday, 8:00 a.m. to 2:15 p.m.

Any Butler County veteran, spouse, widow or dependent. Claims help and grave markers need no rating; the rating filter never hides this entry.

Butler County's Veterans Services, moved in 2025 into the county's Aging & Veteran's Resource Center at 215 N. Duffy Road, is the county director of veterans affairs' office: VA claims, the State real estate tax exemption and Veterans' Temporary Assistance, the county burial benefit and headstone reimbursement, and free DD-214 recording and copies. Call 724-284-5352.

Veterans, dependents and survivors. Any veteran, family member or survivor can use the office. No rating is needed.

The Butler County Court of Common Pleas' Veterans Treatment Court, established 2012 in the 50th Judicial District under Judge John C. Scialabba, runs four minimum-three-month phases plus aftercare with veteran mentors and the Butler VA's Veterans Justice Outreach team, on random drug and alcohol testing at least twice weekly; the participant handbook revised January 5, 2026 is the published rule.

A veteran with a Butler County criminal case. Eligibility is decided case by case. No rating is needed.

Butler County's Common Pleas Veterans Treatment Court, under Judge Michael A. Oster Jr. since 2017, takes veterans convicted of or seeking intervention for a third, fourth or fifth degree felony who have a mental illness or substance use disorder. Middletown Municipal Court and the County Court's Area II also run certified veterans dockets.

A veteran with an eligible charge and a treatment need. A veteran with a third to fifth degree felony (Common Pleas) or a misdemeanour (Middletown, Area II) and a mental illness or substance use disorder. No rating is needed.

Butler County’s section 80-102 Veteran’s Aid fund held $24,413.92 with no levy, paid nothing in 2024-2025, and in February 2026 sent $3,000 to the Veterans Service Committee to replenish its account; the 2026-2027 budget keeps the remaining $21,413.92 for aid.

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 Butler County, and need the committee assesses. No rating is required.

The Butte County Superior Court runs a Veterans Treatment Court calendar on the third Tuesday of each month at 1:30 p.m. in Oroville, heard in 2026 by Commissioner Leah B. Sears alongside the military diversion calendar; participants work with Butte County Behavioral Health and VA.

Veteran defendants referred and accepted. Referral through the criminal case; the Court publishes no rating or discharge test. No rating is needed.

Butte County's Veterans Service Office, part of the Department of Employment and Social Services, prepares and tracks VA and CalVet claims for veterans, dependants and survivors free of charge, from 765 East Avenue, Suite 200, Chico, by appointment weekdays and walk-in Tuesday and Thursday afternoons. Call 530-552-6608.

Veterans and families. Any veteran, dependant or survivor can use the office. No rating is needed.

The Butts County Board of Commissioners - District 1 Mike Wilson, District 2 Jeremiah Hosford, District 3 Joe Brown Jr., District 4 J. Keith Douglas and District 5 Russ Crumbley, the 128th Session whose board elects its chairman yearly, with County Manager Brad Johnson and Deputy County Manager J. Michael Brewer at 625 West 3rd Street, Jackson (770-775-8200), meeting on the portal's posted schedule - whose 2025-2026 record (65 Board of Commissioners events from January 6, 2025 through December 14, 2026, read whole through the CivicClerk public portal's own API, with 18 docket and packet PDFs converted and read) names no veteran item; the portal's CY 2025 Minutes and January-December 2026 Minutes events publish no meeting files; the Department of Georgia's post list names no American Legion post in Butts County.

No eligibility - a board record. The record documents the board’s posted 2025-2026 events and the absence of a county American Legion post; it grants no individual entitlement.

The Butts County Clerk of Court - Morgan Ward, 625 West Third Street, Suite 10, Jackson (770-775-8214 or 770-775-8215, weekdays 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.) - is the county's recorder of military discharges under O.C.G.A. 15-6-72 and 15-6-78; the clerk's own site carries the office's divisions and services 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 Butts County Tax Commissioner - Nancy J. Washington, 625 West 3rd Street, Jackson (770-775-8200 county line, buttscountytax.com) - whose office "is charged with the responsibility of collecting taxes on properties within Butts County, as well as collecting motor vehicle taxes and selling tags on behalf of the State of Georgia", prints no veteran amounts on the county's own pages, so the State's veteran rows rest on the State entries (the Board of Assessors' qPublic site, qpublic.net/ga/butts, answers a Cloudflare-style block to plain fetch - 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 offices take the application and the State entries carry the indexed amount. The rating filter never hides this entry.

C-TRAN, Clark County's public transit agency, gives veterans and active-duty members a free Heroes Pass for all local service in the county, The Current included. Bring a VA photo ID, a CAC, a retired military ID, a driver's licence with the veteran designation, or a DD-214 with photo ID to a C-TRAN customer service office.

Veteran or active-duty member. Any veteran or active-duty member with one of the listed IDs. No rating is needed.

The Commonwealth veterans office, in the Governor’s office since 2002. Its statutory duties are split between courting the U.S. military and serving veterans, and the veteran-facing half is mostly employment help and paperwork.

Employment and paperwork are the core services. 1 CMC § 20123 obliges the office to help returning veterans find full-time work, to help unemployed veterans claim the military, federal and local benefits they are eligible for, to give clerical and administrative help to those job-hunting or pursuing education, and to chase identification card, medical and retirement benefit questions with the right service branch.

A quarter off the plate fee for a veteran, free at one hundred percent permanent and total, with no limit on how many vehicles. The disabled veteran plate opens at ten percent, and the fees maintain the veterans cemetery.

Ten percent opens the disabled veteran plate. A disabled veteran under 9 CMC § 2116(a)(2) is a veteran certified as having at least ten percent disability due to a service-related injury. This entry stays visible below ten percent because the ordinary veteran plate and its twenty-five percent discount need no rating at all.

The Cabarrus County Register of Deeds records military discharges free, from an original or a copy with a raised seal, and gives copies only to the people the statute allows. Discharges on file for less than 80 years are closed to the public.

Veteran with a discharge document. No rating or fee. Copies go only to the parties G.S. 47-113.2 authorises.

Cabarrus County's Veterans Services office in Concord helps veterans and family members apply for VA and State benefits, free, by appointment on weekdays at 363 Church Street N. Call 704-920-2869. Veterans and active military also get into the Cabarrus County Fair free with ID.

Veteran or family member. No rating or fee. Free fair entry needs a DD-214, VA card or military ID.

The Cabell County Adult Drug Court carries a veterans treatment court track under Circuit Judge Gregory Howard, the Sixth Judicial Circuit’s judge.

Veteran defendant, court-decided admission. The veterans track of the Cabell County Adult Drug Court admits veteran defendants the court finds suitable; there is no right to participation.

Cabell County has no county veterans office; the state Huntington claim office on Fourth Avenue carries the claims work, and the clerk holds military discharges as restricted-access records.

Any veteran or family member. The Huntington claim office advises Cabell County veterans and their families on VA and state benefits and files claims, free of charge. No rating is required, so the rating filter never hides this benefit.

Cache County's Council funded the Dan Gyllenskog Veterans Resource Center in Logan with $160,000 of American Rescue Plan Act money (contract 23-322) - $149,796.81 spent, $10,203.19 remaining on line 485-4965-620, kept in the Q1 budget amendment the Council adopted April 14, 2026.

No individual eligibility - a county grant to a veterans resource center. The appropriation funds the Center; it sets its own services and eligibility.

The California Association of Collaborative Courts’ Court Finder marks Calaveras County as having a veterans treatment court; the court sits at the Calaveras Superior Court, 400 Government Center Drive, San Andreas, which publishes no collaborative-courts page of its own and no eligibility rules, so a veteran asks defence counsel, the court’s criminal desk or the VA’s Veterans Justice Outreach coordinator.

Justice-involved veteran. The court is for a veteran with an open criminal case who is referred and accepted. A disability rating is not the test.