VetTOC · Veteran benefits reference
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The Ada County Assessor takes applications for Idaho's veterans property tax reduction, up to $1,500 off the tax on the home and one acre, for a veteran rated 100 percent or paid…
Gate: 100% service-connected; Or 100% compensation through individual unemployability
adacounty.id.gov/assessor/tax-relief-programs/veterans-property-tax-reduction
Ada County's Veterans Treatment Court in Boise takes Ada County residents who served in the armed forces and face felony drug or alcohol charges, or other charges tied to…
adacounty.id.gov/judicial-court/district-court/veterans-treatment-court
No Idaho public officer may charge a veteran for recording or indexing discharge papers or for certified copies of them; a recorded DD-214 is not a public record without the…
legislature.idaho.gov/statutesrules/idstat/title65/t65ch3/sect65-301
A $5 resident license at a 40% rating, with deeply reduced tag fees.
Gate: 40% service-connected
A lifetime pass waiving the vehicle entrance fee for one vehicle and the campsite fee for one site at Idaho state parks, for an Idaho resident rated 100% permanent and total…
Gate: 100% total and permanent
parksandrecreation.idaho.gov/wp-content/uploads/Vet-Application-2025.pdf
A deduction for military retired pay, available to a retired service member who is disabled or 62 or older, which is a lower age bar than Idaho applies to other pensions.
The Idaho National Guard's State Education Assistance Program reimburses tuition and fees at Idaho higher education and vocational schools for Guard members; the Legislature cut…
Operation Education at the University of Idaho is an individualized scholarship for veterans who sustained a permanent disability while serving since September 11, 2001, and in…
Gate: A permanent service-connected disability from post-9/11 service
www.uidaho.edu/military-veteran/scholarships/operation-education
Up to $1,500 off the property tax on the home and one acre, at a 100% rating or individual unemployability.
Gate: 100% service-connected; Compensation at 100% due to individual unemployability
Idaho's income-tested Property Tax Reduction takes $250 to $1,500 off the tax on the home and up to an acre, and a veteran rated 10% or more, or drawing a VA pension for a…
Gate: 10% service-connected, or a VA pension
legislature.idaho.gov/statutesrules/idstat/title63/t63ch7/sect63-701
Idaho Code 33-3717B makes resident students of a service member who entered service as an Idaho resident, one stationed in Idaho, an Idaho National Guard member, their supported…
legislature.idaho.gov/statutesrules/idstat/title33/t33ch37/sect33-3717b
Two state cemeteries, at Boise and Blackfoot, with casket burial, in-ground and columbarium niches for cremated remains and scattering gardens, open to veterans from any state;…
Four state skilled nursing homes, at Boise, Pocatello, Lewiston and Post Falls, for Idaho residents discharged under honorable conditions with at least 90 days of service and a…
A VETERAN designation on an Idaho driver's licence or ID card, free on a new or renewed card and for the $15 duplicate fee at any other time, on proof of an honorable discharge,…
itd.idaho.gov/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/Veterans_Designation.pdf
Idaho registers one vehicle free with Disabled Veteran (D.V.) plates and a parking placard for a veteran paid for a 100% service-connected disability, the loss or loss of use of…
Gate: 100% service-connected compensation for the free plate
Emergency grants of up to $1,500 from the Idaho Division of Veterans Services for an honorably discharged veteran now living in Idaho who entered service from Idaho or has lived…
In a first appointment with the State, a county or a city, a veteran with 90 days of continuous active duty separated under honorable conditions is preferred over applicants who…
Gate: 10% for ten points, 30% for an offered interview
Idaho has seven veterans treatment courts, run by the district courts as Idaho Supreme Court treatment courts: Kootenai (Coeur d'Alene), Nez Perce (Lewiston), Canyon (Caldwell),…
79 federal benefits apply here as well and are left off this page; the place page lists them.