VetTOC · Veteran benefits reference
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The Lincoln County Collector, Melissa Bumpass, at the courthouse, 300 South Drew St., Room 102, Star City (870-628-5020), takes the State's disabled veteran exemption on the home…
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.