VetTOC · Veteran benefits reference
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The Crittenden County Circuit Clerk, Terry Hawkins, records soldiers' discharges among the land records the office keeps at 100 Court Square, Marion ((870) 739-3248); the page…
The Crittenden County Collector, Ellen Foote, 250 Pine Street, Suite 2, Marion ((870) 739-3141), takes the State's disabled veteran exemption on the home and personal property;…
The Second Judicial Circuit's veterans treatment court, which its 2026 plan calls the Veterans Diversion Program, takes veterans and service members who live in any of the…
An Arkansas surviving spouse can keep the full property tax exemption while unmarried, pays no income tax on a Survivor Benefit Plan annuity, receives state hiring preference,…
arkleg.state.ar.us/Home/FTPDocument?path=%2FACTS%2F2025R%2FPublic%2FACT340.pdf
No property tax at all on the home, the land around it (160 acres for 2025; from 2026 two acts of the same session conflict, one at 160 and one at 40), and personal property such…
Gate: 100 percent service-connected; Permanent and total; Or total through individual unemployability; Permanent and total, on the unemployability route too
arkleg.state.ar.us/Home/FTPDocument?path=%2FACTS%2F2025R%2FPublic%2FACT407.pdf
A free disabled veteran plate, with disabled parking privileges, for an Arkansas resident VA rates at least 30 percent service-connected or permanent and total.
Gate: At least 30 percent service-connected; Or permanent and total
www.dfa.arkansas.gov/specialty-plates/disabled-veteran-license-plate-free
Lifetime hunting and fishing licences from the Game and Fish Commission for resident disabled veterans: $1.50 for hunting or fishing and $3 for both at 100 percent permanent and…
Gate: At least 50 percent, which needs a Purple Heart below 70; Or permanent and total through unemployability
Tuition, mandatory fees and on-campus housing for a first bachelor's degree, for up to eight semesters, for the spouse or child of an Arkansan who is a prisoner of war, missing…
arkleg.state.ar.us/Home/FTPDocument?path=%2FACTS%2F2025R%2FPublic%2FACT340.pdf
A school board may grant a high school diploma to an Arkansas resident veteran who left school to serve in World War II, Korea or Vietnam, was honorably discharged, and served 18…
dese.ade.arkansas.gov/Files/20201103153726_Diplomas_for_Veterans_Final_Rule_CLEAN.pdf
A public Arkansas college, trade school or vocational school must charge in-state tuition, whatever the student's residence, to a veteran honorably discharged after at least 90…
uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title38-section3679&num=0&edition=prelim
Active duty pay is fully exempt from Arkansas income tax, including annual training and other full-time duty.
arkleg.state.ar.us/Home/FTPDocument?path=%2FACTS%2F2025R%2FPublic%2FACT508.pdf
State and local government employees in the Guard or reserves get 15 days of paid military leave a year, carrying over up to 30, and 30 working days of paid leave when called up…
arkleg.state.ar.us/Home/FTPDocument?path=%2FACTS%2F2025R%2FPublic%2FACT572.pdf
A resident military retiree aged 60 or older can buy a lifetime fishing licence for $10.50, hunting for $25 or both for $35.50 from the Game and Fish Commission, after one year…
All military retired pay, including Guard and reserve retirement, and Survivor Benefit Plan annuities are exempt from Arkansas income tax.
arkleg.state.ar.us/Home/FTPDocument?path=%2FACTS%2F2023R%2FPublic%2FACT358.pdf
Arkansas issues its military and veteran plates, including Armed Forces Veteran, Purple Heart, Medal of Honor, ex-POW and retiree plates, free of charge apart from a renewal fee…
arkleg.state.ar.us/Home/FTPDocument?path=%2FACTS%2F2025R%2FPublic%2FACT51.pdf
An Arkansas Guard member on state active duty is a covered public employee: the state pays $50,000 to beneficiaries if the member is killed in the line of duty and $10,000 for a…
arkleg.state.ar.us/Home/FTPDocument?path=%2FACTS%2F2025R%2FPublic%2FACT414.pdf
Tuition-free study for up to 120 semester hours at a public Arkansas college for a Guard soldier or airman in good standing without a bachelor's degree.
arkleg.state.ar.us/Home/FTPDocument?path=%2FACTS%2F2025R%2FPublic%2FACT14.pdf
An Arkansas licensing board must grant an automatic licence to a service member stationed here, a veteran who lives here, or the spouse of either, who holds a licence in good…
arkleg.state.ar.us/Home/FTPDocument?path=%2FACTS%2F2025R%2FPublic%2FACT508.pdf
A service member deployed out of state on federal orders owes no late penalty on property tax during the deployment and one tax year after it.
arkleg.state.ar.us/Home/FTPDocument?path=%2FACTS%2F2025R%2FPublic%2FACT550.pdf
A disabled veteran pays no Arkansas sales tax on a vehicle or adaptive equipment bought with VA's automobile allowance.
arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/Detail?id=HB1738&ddBienniumSession=2025%2F2025R
Half-price standard campsites at Arkansas State Parks for a U.S. citizen with a 100 percent or permanent and total disability, including veterans, shown by a VA award letter from…
Gate: 100 percent disabled; Or permanent and total; Or total through unemployability
Free burial for an eligible veteran, with an $807 fee for a spouse or dependent, at the state veterans cemeteries in North Little Rock and Birdeye.
Two state veterans nursing homes, in North Little Rock and Fayetteville, for veterans who need long-term care, with priority at 70 percent.
Gate: Priority in admission at 70 percent
Five points for a veteran, ten for a disabled veteran, in state agency, college and school district hiring, with preference also in interviewing, promotion and layoffs.
arkleg.state.ar.us/Home/FTPDocument?path=%2FACTS%2F2025R%2FPublic%2FACT116.pdf
The word "Veteran" on an Arkansas driver licence or ID for anyone whose discharge document shows honorable or general under honorable conditions.
www.dfa.arkansas.gov/office/driver-services/licenses-ids-permits/military-veterans
Circuit courts may run veterans treatment courts, with a VA veterans justice outreach specialist on the team, for a veteran or service member aged 18 or older with a substance…
arkleg.state.ar.us/Home/FTPDocument?path=%2FACTS%2F2025R%2FPublic%2FACT691.pdf
Emergency help with basic living expenses, once a fiscal year, for the minor children of an honorably discharged Arkansas veteran who has died or is medically incapacitated.
Gate: The department reads incapacitated as 30 percent or more
Arkansas lets a private employer, city, county or township adopt a written veterans preference for hiring, promotion or layoffs without breaking discrimination law.
codes.findlaw.com/ar/title-11-labor-and-industrial-relations/ar-code-sect-11-15-102
Arkansas has no single definition of veteran. State hiring counts six years of honorable Guard or reserve service.
web.archive.org/web/2025/https://www.veterans.arkansas.gov/s/Veterans-Home-Rule-Edit-V2-p27c.pdf
79 federal benefits apply here as well and are left off this page; the place page lists them.