VA Disability Compensation

Navarro County's Veteran Service Officer, Tim Easley, works from 601 N. 13th Street, Suite 7, Corsicana (903-654-3017, [email protected]), helping veterans and families with VA and State claims; the county budgets the one-person office at $93,532 for FY2027.

Veterans, dependents and survivors. The office helps any veteran, dependent or survivor with VA and State claims. No rating is needed.

Nelson County keeps no veterans office of its own; its claims route is the Kentucky Department of Veterans Affairs' Region 8 benefits representatives Kelly Warren (502-229-6070) and Cameron Polk (502-356-1551), who serve Bullitt, Carroll, Henry, Jefferson, Nelson, Oldham, Spencer, Shelby and Trimble counties; their help is free.

Veterans and their families. Free help filing VA and state claims; no rating is needed to ask.

Nevada County's veterans service officer, Nathan St. Clair, at the courthouse, 215 E. 2nd St., Prescott ((870) 887-5776), helps county veterans, dependents and survivors with VA claims free on Mondays and Tuesdays; the county has no website.

Veterans, dependents and survivors. Open to any veteran, dependent or survivor. No rating is needed.

The state pays $1,800 a year, in monthly payments of $150, for life to a wartime veteran who entered service from New Jersey and is totally blind, paraplegic, hemiplegic or a double amputee from that service, and then to the surviving spouse. The department calls it the Catastrophic Entitlement.

Wartime or Korea and Vietnam emergency service, and a New Jersey resident at entry into service. N.J.S.A. 38:18-1 and 38:18A-1.

New Jersey makes it a consumer fraud violation to charge for help with a VA claim except as federal law allows, to charge anything before a notice of disagreement is filed, to charge a referral fee, or to guarantee a rating. Paid advisers must tell you in writing and aloud that free help exists.

The Newaygo County Department of Veterans Affairs - Veterans Service Officer Steven Cain, with Charlie McKinley and Rebecca Ball, 1087 Newell St., P.O. Box 885, White Cloud (231-689-7218, fax 231-689-7372), weekdays 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. - 'assists veterans and their families with every veteran benefit to include emergency financial assistance, burial, compensation, pension, education, medical, home loan, and life insurance', and runs the county's Soldiers and Sailors Emergency Relief Fund assistance and its Veterans Affairs Committee.

Newaygo County veteran or qualifying family member. The department counsels county veterans discharged under other than dishonorable conditions; no rating is needed to call. The rating filter never hides this entry.

Newton County's veterans service officer, Gerald Lamb, at 610 Court St., Jasper ((870) 577-5266), helps county veterans, dependents and survivors with VA claims free, Tuesday to Thursday; the county has no website.

Veterans, dependents and survivors. Open to any veteran, dependent or survivor. No rating is needed.

Newton County's Veterans Service Officer, Ray Boughner, sees veterans and survivors for VA and State claims only on Wednesdays, 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., at the Old Hospital on Main Street in Newton (409-379-9017); the county budgets $35,683.32 for the office in 2027.

Veterans, dependents and survivors. The office helps any veteran, dependent or survivor with VA and State claims. No rating is needed.

Niagara County's Veterans Service Agency, 175 Hawley Street, Suite 100D, Lockport, (716) 438-4090, helps veterans and dependants with VA compensation, pension, DIC, education, health care, burial and records claims, State benefits such as the blind annuity, park pass and hunting licences, and the County Clerk's DD-214 filing; counseling weekdays 9 to 4.

Veterans, dependants and survivors. Free. No rating is needed.

The Georgia Department of Veterans Service's find-an-office list - read 2026-11-03 - names no field service office for Elbert County: the Athens office's row serves "Barrow, Clarke, Hart, Jackson, Madison, Oconee, and Oglethorpe" and no row in the list carries Elbert, so an Elbert veteran's GDVS claims route is the Athens Veterans Field Service Office (Veterans Service Officer and Manager Matt Williamson and Veterans Service Officer Carie Lince, 706-733-0188 ext. 45575, 9249 U.S. Highway 29, Athens, GA 30601), the nearest posted office, or the GDVS's central office; the absence is the State's own roster, read whole.

Any Elbert County veteran or family member. GDVS service officers file claims for any veteran or family member; the service is free. No rating is needed. No rating hides this entry.

Nolan County's Veterans County Service Officer, Robert McBride, helps veterans and survivors with VA and State claims at the Courthouse, 100 E 3rd Street, Suite 207A, Sweetwater (325-235-2214); the county budgets $141,628.80 for the office, with an assistant, in FY2027.

Veterans, dependents and survivors. The office helps any veteran, dependent or survivor with VA and State claims. No rating is needed.

Northumberland County's Veteran's Affairs office - the county director of veterans affairs, Ryan Miller, run with the Area Agency on Aging since 2022 - helps veterans, service members and their families with VA claims, the State's veterans programmes and the county's burial and grave duties; the county's page gives 570-495-2395 and the State's directors list 570-495-2364.

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

Ochiltree County's site has no veterans page and names no officer, but its 2026-2027 budget keeps a $4,700 Veteran's Service department (travel, supplies, conferences and equipment, no salary line); TexVet's county list names Dempsey Malaney at 806-435-8059 and [email protected], an address on the county's e-mail domain, and the County Judge's office in Perryton (806-435-8031) is the county's general contact.

Veterans, dependents and survivors. The office helps any veteran, dependent or survivor with VA and State claims. No rating is needed.

Oconee County's Veteran's Affairs Office, 223 Kenneth Street, Walhalla, weekdays 8:30 to 5 (864-638-4231, fax 864-718-5065), under Director Jerry Dyar, schedules appointments in 2-to-3-hour first-come windows to help veterans, surviving spouses, dependents and beneficiaries with VA claims and appeals, pensions (call to check war-time eligibility), aid-and-attendance for assisted living or nursing homes, health-care enrolment, burial and marker benefits, and copies or certification of a DD-214.

Oconee County veterans, surviving spouses and dependents. No rating is needed to ask; the office explains the tests.

The Oconto County Veterans Service Office - CVSO Ron Christensen, a 20-year Marine Corps veteran in the post since 2016, and Deputy CVSO Tanya Gonzalez, Courthouse room 3043, 301 Washington Street, Oconto (920-834-6817, fax 920-834-6819, weekdays 8 to 4) - develops and files VA compensation, pension, survivor, health care, home loan and burial claims with accredited representation, handles the State grants and property tax credit paperwork, and keeps a Tuesday outreach day at the Riverview office in the north of the county.

Resident veterans and their family members. The office assists all resident veterans and their family members; no rating is needed to ask.

Okanogan County's Veteran Services - Veterans Service Officer Thomas Even, 1 Tonasket Shop Road, P.O. Box 1740, Tonasket (509-486-2121, fax 509-486-2133) - points county veterans at VA health care, compensation, pension, survivor, education, home-loan and life-insurance benefits, with the SF 180 and the VA travel-reimbursement form among the office's links, and works beside the county's Veterans Relief Fund and its board.

Okanogan County veterans and their families. The office helps county veterans with VA and State benefits; no rating is needed to ask.

The Oklahoma Department of Veterans Affairs' Muskogee office, at 125 S. Main, Room 104, Muskogee (918-781-7766), keeps the department's service officers for Muskogee County: free help filing VA claims and the state's benefit letters, by appointment; Angela Gordon manages the office and John Barnes, James McIntire, Antonio Marino and Rey Ramos are its service officers.

Veterans, surviving spouses and families. Free help filing VA claims and state benefit requests; no rating is needed to ask.

Delaware County sits on the Oklahoma Department of Veterans Affairs' Northeast Team - regional manager Brian Gibson (918-348-4901) and six accredited service officers, Angela Chalk, Bobbie Jones, Michael Merit, David Roberts, Les Rouell and Joseph Spychalski - the claims route for the county's veterans; no ODVA office sits in Delaware County.

Any veteran or family member. ODVA service officers file claims for any veteran or family member; the service is free. No rating is needed.

Kay County sits on the Oklahoma Department of Veterans Affairs' Northeast Team - regional manager Brian Gibson (918-348-4901) and six accredited service officers, with the Central Office at 2132 NE 36th Street, Oklahoma City and the Muskogee office - the claims route for the county's veterans; no ODVA office sits in Kay County.

Any veteran or family member. ODVA service officers file claims for any veteran or family member; the service is free. No rating is needed.

Mayes County sits on the Oklahoma Department of Veterans Affairs' Northeast Team - regional manager Brian Gibson (918-348-4901) and six accredited service officers, with the Central Office at 2132 NE 36th Street, Oklahoma City and the Muskogee office - the claims route for the county's veterans; no ODVA office sits in Mayes County.

Any veteran or family member. ODVA service officers file claims for any veteran or family member; the service is free. No rating is needed.

Osage County sits on the Oklahoma Department of Veterans Affairs' Northeast Team - regional manager Brian Gibson (918-348-4901) and six accredited service officers, Angela Chalk, Bobbie Jones, Michael Merit, David Roberts, Les Rouell and Joseph Spychalski - the claims route for the county's veterans; no ODVA office sits in Osage County.

Any veteran or family member. ODVA service officers file claims for any veteran or family member; the service is free. No rating is needed.

Washington County sits on the Oklahoma Department of Veterans Affairs' Northeast Team - regional manager Brian Gibson (918-348-4901) and six accredited service officers, with the Central Office at 2132 NE 36th Street, Oklahoma City and the Muskogee office - the claims route for the county's veterans; no ODVA office sits in Washington County.

Any veteran or family member. ODVA service officers file claims for any veteran or family member; the service is free. No rating is needed.

Bryan County sits on the Oklahoma Department of Veterans Affairs’ Southeast Team - regional manager Catherine Meredith (918-577-0372) and accredited service officers Quentin Cox (918-348-9648), Catherine McBride (918-397-2560), Shane Satterfield (918-616-9590) and Terry Ryan Stubbs (918-397-2570) - the free claims route for the county’s veterans; the county keeps no veterans office of its own.

Any veteran or family member. ODVA service officers file claims for any veteran or family member; the service is free. No rating is needed.

Carter County sits on the Oklahoma Department of Veterans Affairs’ Southeast Team - regional manager Catherine Meredith (918-577-0372) and accredited service officers Quentin Cox (918-348-9648), Catherine McBride (918-397-2560), Shane Satterfield (918-616-9590) and Terry Ryan Stubbs (918-397-2570) - the free claims route for the county’s veterans; the county keeps no veterans office of its own.

Any veteran or family member. ODVA service officers file claims for any veteran or family member; the service is free. No rating is needed.

Le Flore County sits on the Oklahoma Department of Veterans Affairs' Southeast Team - regional manager Catherine Meredith and accredited service officers Quentin Cox, Catherine McBride, Shane Satterfield and Terry Ryan Stubbs, with the Central Office at 2132 NE 36th Street, Oklahoma City and the Muskogee office - the claims route for the county's veterans; no ODVA office sits in Le Flore County.

Any veteran or family member. ODVA service officers file claims for any veteran or family member; the service is free. No rating is needed.

Sequoyah County sits on the Oklahoma Department of Veterans Affairs’ Southeast Team - regional manager Catherine Meredith (918-577-0372) and accredited service officers Quentin Cox (918-348-9648), Catherine McBride (918-397-2560), Shane Satterfield (918-616-9590) and Terry Ryan Stubbs (918-397-2570) - the free claims route for the county’s veterans; the county keeps no veterans office of its own.

Any veteran or family member. ODVA service officers file claims for any veteran or family member; the service is free. No rating is needed.

Jackson County sits on the Oklahoma Department of Veterans Affairs' Southwest Team - regional manager Doug Ferguson (405-982-2527) and accredited service officers Skylur Britz and Wallace Moore Jr (580-354-4193), Allen Jacobson (918-397-2562) and Jason Payne (918-351-5226), with administrative assistant Tiffany Beemer - the free claims route for the county's veterans; the county keeps no veterans office of its own.

Any veteran or family member. ODVA service officers file claims for any veteran or family member; the service is free. No rating is needed.

McClain County sits on the Oklahoma Department of Veterans Affairs' Southwest Team - regional manager Doug Ferguson (405-982-2527) and accredited service officers Skylur Britz, Allen Jacobson, Wallace Moore Jr and Jason Payne, with administrative assistant Tiffany Beemer - the claims route for the county's veterans; no ODVA office sits in McClain County.

Any veteran or family member. ODVA service officers file claims for any veteran or family member; the service is free. No rating is needed.

Oldham County has no veterans page and names no veterans service officer, but its FY 2026-27 budget, adopted August 10, 2026, keeps a Veterans Service Officer department of $4,456 - a $3,210 salary, $246 of FICA and $1,000 of travel - the same as 2025-26; TexVet names James Peach at 806-346-2326, and the County Judge's office in Vega (806-639-2145) is the county's general contact.

Veterans, dependents and survivors. The office helps any veteran, dependent or survivor with VA and State claims. No rating is needed.

Olmsted County Veteran Services in Rochester helps veterans, dependents and survivors secure federal and state benefits, including VA health care enrolment, transportation, mental health and chemical dependency help, gets certified copies of DD-214s at no charge, and takes applications for the State's one-time Special Needs Grant; 507-328-6355 or the online appointment calendar.

Veterans, dependents and survivors. Veterans, dependents and survivors in Olmsted County. No rating is needed; the Special Needs Grant also needs a financial need.

Oneida County's Veterans Services - CVSO Matthew Young (a 23-year Army veteran elected February 17, 2026 after Tammy Javenkoski's twenty years) and Assistant CVSO Samantha Negron at the Courthouse, 1 S. Oneida Avenue, Rhinelander (715-369-6127, fax 715-369-6267) - assists veterans, dependents and survivors with all federal and state veterans' benefits, weekdays 8:00 to 4:30, under the Social Services Committee.

Oneida County veteran or qualifying family member. The CVSO files claims free; no rating is needed to schedule. The rating filter never hides this entry.

Oneida County's Veterans' Service Agency, directed by John A. Jones with Veteran Service Officers Bryan Severs and Brandon Olsen in the Veteran Affairs Building, 125 Brookley Road, Rome, 315-336-4270 (fax 315-336-3325, [email protected]), prepares, presents and prosecutes claims for compensation, pension, education, burial, health care, nursing home care, vocational rehabilitation, tax exemption, discharge review and upgrades, home loan guarantees and blind annuity; Rome is open weekdays 8:30 to 4:30 with walk-ins Wednesday 10 to 2, and the Utica office is open Fridays 8:30 to 4:30 by appointment.

Oneida County military personnel, veterans and their dependents. No rating is needed.

Onondaga County's Veterans Service Agency in the Mulroy Civic Center, Syracuse, files VA compensation, pension and survivors claims at no cost, handles applications for the County's free veterans cemetery, and trains the town veterans outreach workers. Three of its seven posts were vacant in April 2026. Call 315-435-3219.

Veterans, spouses, dependents and survivors. Free. No rating is needed.

Ontario County's Veterans Service Agency, at 2930 County Road 48, Canandaigua, 585-396-4185 (toll-free 888-494-1448, fax 585-396-4850), weekdays 8:30 to 5, has accredited service officers who file and appeal VA claims, enrol veterans in VA health care, determine home-loan eligibility and help with education and burial benefits; the agency says its work brings nearly $10 million a year back to the county.

Ontario County veterans and their families. No rating is needed.

Orange County Veteran Services, 306 Revere Road, Hillsborough (919-245-2594, [email protected]), helps veterans, service members, Guard and Reserve members and their families apply for VA disability, pension, health care, education, home loan, insurance, survivor and burial benefits free, in person or remotely, and holds benefits events such as its March 2026 Veterans & Survivors Benefits Breakfast.

Orange County veterans, service members and their families. Free; no rating is needed to ask.

The Orange County Veterans Service Agency in Goshen informs and assists veterans, their families and service members about VA benefits and rights, runs the veterans' shuttle to the Castle Point and Bronx VA hospitals, delivers a veterans food pantry, and helps with burials and grave markers. Call 845-291-2470.

Veterans, their families, survivors and service members. Free. No rating is needed.

Orange County's Veterans' Office, at 10984 FM 1442, Orange, (409) 745-1535 (fax 745-9539), weekdays 8 to 5 with appointments and walk-ins, interviews and advises on entitlements, files and reopens VA claims, files Notices of Disagreement and appeals to the Board of Veterans' Appeals, keeps about 150 VA forms in stock and serves as liaison with the county's veterans organizations.

Orange County veterans and surviving spouses. Free; no rating is needed.

Orangeburg County's Veterans Affairs Office, 1437 Amelia Street, Orangeburg (803-533-6156), with Veterans Affairs Officer Kenisha Grimes, helps veterans and families with VA claims, survivors' annuities, discharge reviews and home loan certificates, records and keeps DD-214s, and books rides to the Dorn VA Medical Center in Columbia from Orangeburg on Tuesdays and Wednesdays and from Holly Hill on Thursdays.

Orangeburg County veterans and their families. Anyone can ask the office for help with VA claims and rides. No rating is needed.

The Orleans County Veterans Service Agency - Director Nikolas Mroz, 13996 Route 31 West, Albion (585-589-3219) - is accredited through the American Legion and the VFW to file and appeal VA claims for veterans, dependents, widows and orphans, helps with the property tax exemption, the NYS blind annuity and the reduced hunting and fishing licences and Lifetime Liberty Pass at 40% service-connected, serves as the county's burial officer for an indigent honorably discharged veteran, runs a volunteer veterans van, and spends the Dwyer Peer to Peer money on outings, a holiday banquet and a WNYHeroes contract.

Veterans, dependents, widows and orphans. The agency files and appeals claims and applies for the listed benefits; no rating is needed to ask.

The Louisiana Department of Veterans Affairs keeps the Orleans Parish veterans service office at 2020 Jackson Avenue, New Orleans, helping veterans and families claim benefits; 504-658-2930, weekdays 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.

Veterans, dependents and survivors. Open to any veteran, dependent or survivor. No rating is needed.

Oswego County's Veterans Service Agency, at 200 N. Second Street, Fulton, 315-591-9100 (fax 315-591-9103), weekdays 8 to noon and 1 to 4 - Thursdays to noon only, lunch 12 to 1 - takes appointments by phone or online and runs a Wednesday-to-Thursday DAV van to the Syracuse VA and a smaller van to the Oswego clinic; its Director of Veteran Services is Eric Boozer, and its Pulaski satellite is in the H. Douglas Barclay Courthouse on the first and second Thursdays.

Oswego County veterans and their families. No rating is needed.

Otsego County's Veterans' Service Agency - Director Phil Couse and Veteran Services Officer Jamie Carkees, Meadows Office Complex, 140 County Highway 33W, Cooperstown (607-547-4224, fax 607-547-7519) - files VA claims, enrols veterans in VA health care and helps with the NYS benefits, weekdays 8:30 to 4:30; the county van runs to the Albany Stratton VA Medical Center.

Any veteran, service member or family. The agency assists Otsego County veterans and veteran family members with claims, records and referrals; services are free. No rating is needed.

The Ottawa County Veterans Service Office - Director Sara A. Toris, Senior Service Officer Jenilee K. Biehler and Service Officers Jeremy Mowel and Tyisha Amos at 8444 W State Route 163, Suite 102, Oak Harbor (419-898-2089, toll-free 800-610-8872), weekdays 8:30 to 4:30 - files VA claims and appeals, provides grave flags, markers and flag cases, medical and safety products at no cost, Ohio Veterans Home applications and tours, and the commission’s temporary financial assistance under ORC Title 59.

Ottawa County veterans, spouses, minor children and widows. Claims help and the listed services are free; the temporary financial assistance is for honorably discharged veterans and their families facing an unexpected hardship.

Otter Tail County Veterans Service, under Veterans Service Officer Robb Emerson with Assistant Veterans Service Officer Sergeant Major (ret.) James Bakkila, helps county veterans, their dependents and survivors claim the benefits they earned - disability pay and VA health care, PTSD and PACT Act claims, State benefits such as the homestead exclusion and State grants, burial and survivor benefits - from the South Court Building, 505 South Court Street, Fergus Falls (218-998-8605) and 118 North Main Avenue, New York Mills (218-385-5540).

Otter Tail County veterans, their dependents and survivors. No rating is needed to ask; the office asks you to schedule an appointment.

Ouachita County's veterans service officer, Michael Suttle, at the courthouse, 145 Jefferson SW, Camden ((870) 837-2216, [email protected]), helps county veterans, dependents and survivors with VA claims free, Tuesday to Thursday 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., with Jim Bob Davis assisting.

Veterans, dependents and survivors. Open to any veteran, dependent or survivor. No rating is needed.

The Louisiana Department of Veterans Affairs keeps the Ouachita Parish veterans service office at 704 Cypress Street, West Monroe, under Chris Villarreal, helping veterans and families claim benefits; 318-362-5137.

Veterans, dependents and survivors. Open to any veteran, dependent or survivor. No rating is needed.

Palo Pinto County's Veterans Office (Ryan Auld, 100 SE 6th Avenue, Mineral Wells, 940-659-1275) helps veterans, surviving spouses and families with VA compensation, pension, survivors' and aid and attendance claims, takes walk-ins four days a week and makes home visits for the housebound; the county made the officer full-time for FY2027, at $60,234.

Veterans, dependents and survivors. The office helps any veteran, dependent or survivor with VA and State claims. No rating is needed.

Panola County's Veterans Service Officer, William Morris, helps veterans and survivors with VA and State claims at 316 West Sabine Street, Carthage (903-693-0360), weekdays 8 to 5 by appointment (903-693-0361); the county budgets the office at $92,824 for 2027, and jurors may give their pay to it.

Veterans, dependents and survivors. The office helps any veteran, dependent or survivor with VA and State claims. No rating is needed.