The Willacy County Commissioners Court (County Judge Aurelio Guerra, Jr.) approved the veterans office’s Texas Veterans Commission grant application (October 9, 2025), a rentals line and a copier lease for it (November 13, 2025) and its staff’s travel to the Commission’s claims conference (March 26, 2026), took up the 2026-2027 grant award (August 27, 2026) and the office’s request to post Veterans Crisis Line signs (October 1, 2026); no benefit was narrowed or repealed.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.
The Williams County Commission’s record from October 2025 to November 2026 - 25 minutes files with their packets and seven later agendas - carries the Operation Green Light for Veterans proclamation, the Veterans Service Officer’s May 2026 office update and the Veterans Service Officer Fund’s budget and levy; no veteran benefit was adopted, narrowed or repealed.
No eligibility - a board record. The record documents the county’s veterans administration; it grants no individual entitlement.
Williamson County's Board approved an opioid-funding application for the Williamson County Veterans Drug Court on July 21, 2026 - 'Opioid Funding Application for Williamson County Veterans Drug Court Training in the amount of $24,465.02', carried 3-0 on a roll call.
Justice-involved veteran. For a veteran with a pending case in Williamson County who is screened and accepted to Track 1. A disability rating is not the test stated.
Williamson County's veterans county service office: accredited officers in Georgetown, Round Rock and Taylor who help veterans, dependents and survivors claim VA, Texas and county benefits, free, by appointment. Call 512-943-1900.
Veterans, dependents and survivors. Any Williamson County veteran, dependent or survivor can use the office. No rating is needed.
Williamson County's Veterans Treatment Court, in General Sessions Court since September 2015, takes veterans and service members charged with a misdemeanour or felony that PTSD, TBI, military sexual trauma, mental illness or substance use from service contributed to, at any time before sentencing; coordinator Tracey McKinney, 1320 West Main Street, Suite 107, Franklin, 615-790-5843.
Justice-involved veteran or service member. For a veteran or service member with a pending Williamson County case who is screened and accepted. A disability rating is not the test.
A veterans treatment court in County Court at Law No. 2 for misdemeanors and felonies, with a pretrial diversion track that can avoid a conviction. It states both of Government Code 124.002's eligibility routes, the rehabilitation route included, and considers discharges other than honorable or general case by case.
Veteran or serving member charged in Williamson County. A veteran or serving member, 18 or older, charged in Williamson County, who meets either statutory route. Honorable and general discharges are accepted and others are considered case by case. No rating is needed.
Lake County's only certified veterans docket, Willoughby Municipal Court's Veterans Treatment Court, takes veterans and serving members with a substance use or mental health diagnosis, including PTSD, brain injury or sexual trauma, who are on at least a year's probation and assessed as medium or high risk.
Veteran or serving member with a diagnosis and a year of probation. A veteran or serving member with a Lake County charge, a substance use or mental health diagnosis, at least a year of probation and a medium or high risk score. No rating is needed.
The Wilson County Clerk files a military discharge (DD-214) free and issues certified copies of it free, as its fee sheet effective January 1, 2024 prints; the office is in the courthouse at 1420 3rd Street, Suite 110, Floresville (830-393-7308).
Any veteran with a discharge. Filing and certified copies are free. No rating is needed.
Wilson County's Register of Deeds records a veteran's military discharge free and issues certified copies free under G.S. 47-113.2's restricted access - in person only, with no mail or phone requests - and points benefits questions to the county's Veterans Resources office.
Any veteran with a DD-214. Recording and certified copies are free; no rating is needed.
The Winkler County Clerk (Pam Greene, 100 East Winkler Street, 1st Floor, Kermit; P.O. Box 1007; 432-586-3401) posts a fee notice of January 1, 2024 that sets recording at $25 for a first page and $4 for each further page but has no discharge line; the free DD-214 filing (Local Government Code 192.002), the free certified copy (Government Code 603.003) and the confidentiality (552.140) are the State's.
Any veteran with a discharge. Recording a discharge and a certified copy are free under the State statutes; copies go only to the people Government Code 552.140 lists. No rating is needed.
Of the agendas and minutes the Winkler County Commissioners' Court (County Judge Charles M. Wolf) posts for September 8, 2025 through October 26, 2026, only the December 30, 2025 agenda names veterans, listing a "Veterans Service Coordinator" among the subordinate officers to be appointed; the Court's 2027 budget raises the Veterans Service department to $12,400 and keeps a $5,000 Veterans Memorial line, and the 2026 county calendar closes offices on Veterans Day. No benefit is known to have been adopted, narrowed or repealed.
No eligibility - a board record. The record documents the county’s veterans-services administration; it grants no individual entitlement.
Winnebago County’s eight-person, fully accredited veterans department runs Oshkosh and Neenah offices, approves 45.86 aid monthly through a five-member commission, and its register of deeds prints the free-recording statute on its fee page.
Any veteran or family member. The department assists Winnebago County veterans and their families with claims and county aid. No rating is required, so the rating filter never hides this benefit.
The Winnebago County Veterans Court, established in 2012, rebuilds the lives of veterans charged with felony or misdemeanour offences who have an underlying substance use disorder or mental illness; coordinator Kathryn Smith, 815-319-4805.
Justice-involved veteran. The court is for a veteran with a pending felony or misdemeanour matter who consents and is accepted. A disability rating is not the test.
Winnebago County has no stand-alone veterans court; its cases are heard by the Sheboygan Area Veterans Treatment Court, opened August 2012, whose coordinator is Craig Steward at (920) 459-3053.
Veteran defendant, court-decided admission. The Sheboygan Area Veterans Treatment Court admits veteran defendants the court finds suitable from its seven served counties; there is no right to participation.
Wisconsin taxes income but exempts all military retirement, including SBP annuities. Since 2021 it subtracts basic, special and incentive pay for active duty, and from tax year 2026 a 2026 act adds drill pay and reserve basic pay, which the Department of Revenue still tells filers to leave out.
Military retired pay is exempt with no conditions. All retirement payments from the U.S. military retirement system, including Retired Serviceman’s Family Protection Plan and Survivor Benefit Plan payments, are exempt. No rating, age or length of service test applies.
A free admission card for a Wisconsin resident veteran rated 70 percent or more, or a former prisoner of war. Every other veteran gets free admission on Veterans Day and Memorial Day weekend only.
Seventy percent for the free park admission card. A Wisconsin resident veteran service-connected at 70 percent or higher, or a former prisoner of war, may receive the free vehicle admission and trail pass card.
Chapter 45 authorises personal loans to veterans, an outreach and recovery programme for veterans at risk of suicide or homelessness, and a veterans assistance programme running transitional housing.
No rating test on any of the three. Sections 45.42, 45.43 and 45.48 turn on need and on veteran status under 45.01(12) rather than on a disability percentage.
Wise County's Clerk's fee schedule (effective January 1, 2024, Clerk Blanca Tuma) prices the military discharge DD-214 at no charge for filing (Local Government Code 192.002(b)) and no charge for a certified copy (Texas Government Code 603.003(a)), thanks the applicant for their service, and waives marriage-license fees with the 72-hour waiting period for military personnel being deployed to a hostile fire zone by order.
Any veteran with a discharge. Recording and a certified copy are free. Copies go only to the people section 552.140 lists.
Wise County grants the vehicle exemption on an annual application due April 1, naming the vehicle by year, make, model, VIN and tag, and its code separately classifies one automobile of a qualified veteran for local taxation under a 1998 ordinance that still cites the former classification statute.
100% permanent and total. One owned motor vehicle used mainly by or for the veteran, applied for annually by April 1. Wise accepts a disability compensated at the 100% rate. One path is a VA rating of 100% that is service-connected, permanent, and total.
The Wood County Clerk, in the courthouse at 100 South Main Street, Quitman (903-763-2711), records a veteran's discharge at no charge and gives certified copies at no charge, to the people the State's confidentiality rule allows; Clerk Kelley Price.
Any veteran; copies to the people 552.140 lists. Recording and certified copies are free; no rating is needed.
Wood County records a veteran's DD-214 and similar discharge papers at the Recorder's office at no cost, the filing stays out of public view for 75 years, and the recorded document is the key that opens the Ohio veterans ID card the county's own Veterans Service Office then makes and issues.
Any veteran with a discharge. Recording is at no cost; the card needs an Honorable or General under Honorable Conditions character of service on the recorded paper.
Wood County's commission pays one-time emergency financial assistance - rent or mortgage principal, utilities and food vouchers only - direct to vendors, up to one month of the 2026 HHS poverty-rate table ($1,330 for one person, plus a food voucher), once every twelve months per applicant, to veterans, active-duty members and their spouses, surviving spouses, dependent parents, minor children or wards who have lived in the county three months and whose most recent discharge was Honorable or General under Honorable Conditions.
Who may ask. Veterans, active-duty members, and their spouses, surviving spouses, dependent parents, minor children and wards; three months of Wood County residence; Honorable or General under Honorable Conditions as the most recent discharge.
Wood County runs CVSO offices in Wisconsin Rapids and Marshfield under a CVSO in seat since 2003, and its commission makes both grants and loans from a dedicated Veteran’s Relief fund with $10,801.89 in loans outstanding.
Any veteran or family member. The offices assist Wood County veterans and their families with claims, grants and loans. No rating is required, so the rating filter never hides this benefit.
The Mid-Ohio Valley Adult Drug Court, which serves Wood and five other counties, carries a veterans treatment court track under Circuit Judge Jason Wharton, with probation officer Julianna Stephens as the contact.
Veteran defendant, court-decided admission. The veterans track of the Mid-Ohio Valley Adult Drug Court admits veteran defendants the court finds suitable; there is no right to participation.
Wood County has no county veterans office; the state Parkersburg benefit office on Murdoch Avenue carries the claims work, and the county clerk records service discharges at no charge by statute.
Any veteran or family member. The Parkersburg benefit office advises Wood 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.
Woodbury County’s Commission of Veteran Affairs in Sioux City files federal and state claims, pays temporary county assistance for housing, utilities, food, medical and funeral needs, and coordinates DAV rides to the Sioux Falls VA Medical Center.
Any veteran or legal dependent. The commission assists county veterans and their legal dependents with federal, state and county benefits. No rating is required, so the rating filter never hides this benefit.
Woodbury County hosts Iowa’s other veterans treatment court: the Fourth Judicial District’s own announcement names the Woodbury County programme, alongside its own, as one of the state’s two.
Veteran with a criminal case in Woodbury County. The county’s programme is one of Iowa’s two veterans treatment courts, per the Fourth Judicial District’s announcement of December 2025.
The Worth County Board of Commissioners - whose own Board Members page lists the chairman's seat as "Vacant" with District 1 Joe Gaines, District 2 Ken Hall, District 3 Dice Roberts and District 4 Kemp Willis, and County Clerk Angela Harrah at 201 N. Main Street, Suite 30, Sylvester (229-776-8200) - meets in workshop the first Tuesday and in regular session the third Thursday at 7:00 p.m. in the third-floor Board Room of the Worth County Courthouse; the courthouse's second floor seats the Tifton Circuit Accountability Courts' own Worth County office (Room 24, 229-326-3060, fax 229-386-7977) for the Worth County Adult Felony Drug Court, and the county's 2025-2026 agenda and minutes PDFs answer a Cloudflare-style block to plain fetch, so the board's year was not available to read; American Legion Post 335 sits in Sylvester and no VFW post is listed in the county.
No eligibility - a board record. The record documents the board’s seats and schedule, the courthouse’s drug-court office and the county’s organizations; it grants no individual entitlement.
The Worth County Clerk of Courts - Marcia Kimbro-Inman, with Chief Deputies Anissa Shipp and Charlene McKey and Deputy Clerk Beverly Hightower (201 N. Main Street, Room 13, Sylvester, GA 31791, 229-776-8205, fax 229-776-8237, office 8 a.m. to 5 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 Clerk of Courts page prints the county's own DD-214 paragraph: "DD214 are recorded in the Clerk of Courts office free of charge and any copies needed are also free. Both regular and certified copies are available at any time upon your request. It is very important to have them recorded in the County you reside upon your release from the military."
Any veteran with a discharge. The county’s own page records DD214s free of charge with free copies; the record is closed for fifty years under O.C.G.A. 15-6-72. No rating is needed.
The Worth County Tax Commissioner - Lakeysia McGill, 201 North Main St, Room 15, Sylvester, GA 31791 (229-776-8204, [email protected], Monday to Friday 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., worthcountytax.com) - and the Board of Tax Assessors (229-776-8203) take the exemption applications, and the Tax Commissioner's own General Information page prints the county's own veteran paragraph: "The Disabled Veterans Homestead Exemption is available to certain disabled veterans in an amount up to $50,000 deducted from the 40% assessed value of the homestead property. This exemption applies to all ad valorem tax levies ... proof of disability, either from the Veterans Administration or from a private physician", with "A similar exemption in the same amount ... available to the un-remarried surviving spouse of a member of the armed forces of the United States who was killed in any war or armed conflict", and the armed-forces-absence filing line: "If the owner is absent from their residence because of duty in the armed forces, a friend or family member may file on behalf of said owner"; the qPublic record-search site was not read (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’s own page prints its veteran paragraphs and the application route. The rating filter never hides this entry.
Alaska’s first official Freedom Rock®, a granite boulder painted by Ray “Bubba” Sorensen II with Wrangell’s veterans and history, is the centerpiece of a permanent veterans memorial the City and Borough is building at City Park. The artwork and site work are done; the Rock is to be set in place in spring under a pavilion still being chosen and funded, with benches, signage and a flagpole.
Open to the public; sponsorships open to all. The memorial and its sponsorships are not gated by service or rating; the entry is recorded so the rating filter never hides it.
Wrangell’s fee schedule gives veterans the senior rate at the pool, weight room and showers: $3 a visit instead of the $5 adult rate, and passes of $27 a month, $119 for six months and $195 a year instead of $45, $198 and $324.
Veterans, at the counter. The fee schedule sets a veteran rate with no rating or service-era test, so the rating filter never hides this benefit.
The Wright County Recorder of Deeds, Amanda Hoffman, Courthouse Room 204, 125 Court Square, Hartville (417-741-7322), files and maintains DD-214s, keeps them from public search, and gives the veteran or an authorized party a copy at no charge on the notarized request form it posts; military separation papers are exempt from the formatting rules.
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.
Wright County's Board of Commissioners has twice accepted Disabled American Veterans donations for its Veteran Services department - Resolution 25-60 (a $500 DAV Chapter 37 Auxiliary donation, October 21, 2025) and Resolutions 26-50 and 26-51 (August 18, 2026, the latter $500 from DAV Auxiliary Unit 37 'to be used to assist Wright County Veterans and not supplement or otherwise replace other funds supplied to the department') - and adopted Resolution 25-62 declaring the county's participation in Operation Green Light for Veterans.
Wright County veterans. The donations assist Wright County veterans through the county office; Operation Green Light is a county-wide observance.
Wyandotte County, governed by the Unified Government of Wyandotte County and Kansas City, Kansas, runs a veterans treatment court in its 29th Judicial District, beside an adult drug treatment court and a behavioral health court, by the Kansas Judicial Branch’s list; its district court sits at the Wyandotte County Courthouse in Kansas City, Kansas.
Veteran with a criminal case in Wyandotte County. The county operates a veterans treatment court, per the Judicial Branch’s list; entry is by referral through counsel or the court.
The Wyoming County Board of Supervisors’ 2026: Anthony Solina reappointed Veteran Services Director, a Veteran of the Month at each Board meeting, Vietnam War Veterans Day and the PFC Jack McGee Memorial Highway (March 10), the Veterans Art Therapy contract extended, the State Division of Veterans’ Services grant accepted (September 8) and Operation Green Light for November 4 to 11 (October 13); the director judged chapter 672 of 2025 would reach almost no county veterans.
No eligibility - a board record. The record documents the Board’s veteran items; it grants no individual entitlement.
Wyoming levies no individual income tax, so military retired pay, Survivor Benefit Plan annuities, VA compensation, and Thrift Savings Plan withdrawals are all untaxed by the state. Nothing to claim and no return to file.
No eligibility test. There is nothing to qualify for. Wyoming has no individual income tax, so no rating, income level, or filing status changes the result. The rating filter never hides this entry.
A free lifetime bird, small game, and fishing license at a 100% rating or with a Purple Heart, and a free lifetime fishing license at 50%. Lifetime means once, with no annual renewal.
50% for fishing, 100% for bird, small game, and fishing. A 50 percent or greater rating buys a free lifetime fishing license. A 100 percent rating extends that to bird and small game as well. Neither tier covers big game licenses, which are drawn and priced separately.
A free lifetime pass covering both day use and camping at Wyoming state parks, for a veteran rated 50% or more. Free camping is rare, and Wyoming gives it at a comparatively low rating threshold.
Service-connected rating of 50% or more. The free lifetime pass requires a service-connected disability rating of 50 percent or greater, and covers both day use and camping. A veteran below 50 percent pays the ordinary fees.
Emergency grants for a Wyoming service member or dependent facing hardship connected to state or federal active duty, including reimbursement for dependent care for up to 39 days a year.
Hardship connected to state or federal active duty. The gate is a financial hardship arising from state or federal active duty service, for a Wyoming service member or dependent. No disability rating is involved, so the rating filter never hides this benefit.
A free VETERAN designation on a Wyoming driver license or identification card. The license expiration is waived for an active duty member on production of a military identification card.
A discharge document. The designation requires a DD-214 or equivalent proof of service. No disability rating is involved, so the rating filter never hides this benefit.
A free Disabled Veteran plate at a 50% rating, carrying exemption from registration fees. Purple Heart and Gold Star Family plates are free. A general Veteran plate costs $50.
50% for the free Disabled Veteran plate and fee exemption. The free Disabled Veteran plate and the registration fee exemption require a service-connected disability rating of 50 percent or greater. A veteran below that may buy the general Veteran plate for $50, which carries no fee exemption.
State Veteran Service Officers serve Laramie County from the Wyoming Veterans Commission offices at 5800 Central Ave., Cheyenne: one officer for Goshen and Laramie Counties at 307-256-1778 and another for Platte and Laramie Counties at 307-274-7747, helping with federal and state benefits, health care, VA disability and pension claims.
Any Wyoming veteran, by commission assignment. The commission’s officers help with federal and state benefits without a rating test, so the rating filter never hides this benefit.
The Wyoming Veterans Commission's State Veteran Service Officer line for Natrona, Converse and Niobrara Counties works from 5905 CY Ave., Casper: 307-258-1100 or 307-315-4187, helping veterans with federal and state benefits, health care, VA disability and pension claims.
Any Wyoming veteran, by commission assignment. The commission’s officers help with federal and state benefits without a rating test, so the rating filter never hides this benefit.
Wythe County taxes tangible personal property at $2.22 per $100 for 2026, levied unchanged from 2025, and applies the statewide one-vehicle exemption through the Commissioner of the Revenue.
100% permanent and total. One owned motor vehicle used mainly by or for the veteran. Wythe accepts the 100% service-connected, permanent and total test; the county publishes no narrower rule. One path is a VA rating of 100% that is service-connected, permanent, and total.
Wythe imposes an annual vehicle license tax whose amount the Board sets in the budget process - $425,000 booked for FY2027 with no per-vehicle figure published - and exempts one vehicle owned or leased and personally used by a disabled veteran or former prisoner of war.
The Yadkin County Board of Commissioners’ minutes from October 2025 to August 2026 hear the Veterans Council on its Lance Corporal Daniel Swaim scholarship fundraiser, reclassify the assistant veteran services post to a full Veteran Services Officer with the officer as director, and approve the VetraSpec contract that connects the office to the VA; no veteran benefit was narrowed or repealed.
No eligibility - a board record. The record documents the county’s veteran items; it grants no individual entitlement.
The Yadkin County Register of Deeds (101 S. State Street, Yadkinville; 336-849-7904) records military discharges (DD-214s), prints certified copies free for veterans who have recorded there, and gives a recorded veteran a free “Thank You for Your Service” photo discount card for participating local businesses.
A veteran with a discharge to record. Recording, veterans’ certified copies and the discount card are free; no rating is needed.