VetTOC · Veteran benefits reference
Find a VA-accredited representative: www.va.gov/get-help-from-accredited-representative/find-rep
The Bartholomew County Auditor's Deductions & Other Forms page posts the Disabled Veteran & Surviving Spouses Deduction among the property-tax deductions its Real Estate and…
Gate: Totally disabled or the statute's second route
The Bartholomew County Recorder records military discharges, and since January 5, 2021 copies of service-member records recorded with county recorders are requested through the…
Bartholomew County's Veteran Services Office runs volunteer-driver vans to and from medical appointments at the Wakeman VA Clinic in Edinburgh and the Roudebush VA Hospital in…
Superior Court I (Judge James Worton) oversees the Bartholomew County Veteran's Treatment Court, a certified problem-solving court for veterans in the criminal justice system…
An Indiana resident veteran with any service-connected disability, or a Defense Department disability retirement, can buy a yearly hunting and fishing licence for $2.75 or a…
From taxes due in 2027, a wartime veteran with a service-connected rating of 10 percent or more gets a $350 credit, and a veteran of any period aged 62 or older with a disability…
Gate: A disability of 10 percent or more
Since the 2026 assessment date, a veteran with a total disability, 90 days of service, an honorable discharge and a year of Indiana residence deducts the whole assessed value of…
Gate: A total disability; Or paid at the total rate through individual unemployability
The county board of commissioners pays up to $1,000, in an amount set by county ordinance, toward the burial or cremation of an Indiana resident veteran with an acceptable…
Every Indiana county must employ a veterans service officer, and since July 1, 2026 that officer must hold state accreditation.
A veteran rated 50 percent or more whose home was given to him or her free by a tax-exempt charity deducts a share of its assessed value equal to the rating band, from 50 percent…
Gate: 50 percent or more
A free plate with accessible parking and free metered parking for a veteran whose service-connected disability affects walking, sight or the hands, or who is rated 50 percent or…
Gate: 50 percent with 60 percent of it for mobility
A veteran with an acceptable discharge gets a free county licence to vend, hawk and peddle goods, and in Marion County municipalities a free transient merchant licence.
When a veteran or service member with a service-related physical or mental health condition goes missing, police treat it as a high risk missing person case and can broadcast a…
A veteran who left an Indiana high school to serve in World War I, World War II, Korea or Vietnam may receive a diploma, including posthumously at a surviving relative's request.
Indiana has a Hoosier Veteran plate with a $15 fee that funds the Military Family Relief Fund, free metered parking for Purple Heart, former POW and Medal of Honor plates, and…
All military retired pay and military survivor benefits are deducted from Indiana adjusted gross income, at any age, since the 2022 tax year.
An Indiana resident pays no Indiana income tax on active duty pay from 2024, on reserve and National Guard pay including state active duty from 2023, or on Public Health Service…
Short-term grants for rent, utilities, food, medical bills, transport, childcare and funeral costs for Indiana resident service members, veterans and their dependents with a…
Public employees who are Guard or reserve members get 15 days of paid military leave a year.
A Guard member hurt in state service is a state employee for workers' compensation and can be placed on a state pension.
An Indiana Guard member in active drilling status with no AWOL in the past year gets full undergraduate tuition at an Indiana public college, usable for graduate study, or up to…
Indiana licensing boards must license a service member whose military training is equivalent, and a military spouse or dependent licensed for a year elsewhere, and must give a…
Indiana makes it an unlawful employment practice to refuse to hire someone because he or she is a veteran, a Guard member or a reservist, and lets private employers adopt a…
An honorably discharged veteran, and his or her spouse or children, pay in-state tuition at Indiana public colleges if they enrol within 12 months of discharge and show Indiana…
A veteran eligible for the disabled Hoosier veteran plate buys a $25 annual state park pass instead of $50.
Gate: Eligible for the disabled Hoosier veteran plate
Children of Indiana veterans with any service-connected disability from wartime or campaign-medal service get up to 124 credit hours of tuition and fees at Indiana public…
Gate: Full exemption for a post-June 30, 2011 enlistee at 80 percent
A disabled veteran who owns no property to which the veteran property tax deduction can be applied may take up to $70 off the vehicle excise tax on each of two vehicles.
Gate: A disability of 10 percent or more
A veteran with any discharge other than dishonorable may have a veteran designation on an Indiana driver licence, permit or ID card, and a surviving spouse may have a surviving…
Indiana aims to award at least 3 percent of state contracts to Indiana veteran owned small businesses and gives them a 15 percent price preference on supplies bought by…
Free burial for veterans eligible for a national cemetery, their spouses, and Guard and reserve members discharged other than dishonorably, at the state cemetery in Madison.
State agencies must interview veterans in the qualified pool, give them a hiring preference and count military time toward layoff seniority.
Indiana courts may run veterans' courts that link veterans charged with offences to treatment and services under intensive judicial supervision, and a veterans' court may take a…
The state nursing home in West Lafayette admits veterans of all eight uniformed services and their spouses who have a disability and live in Indiana or move there within six…
Indiana has a code-wide definition of Hoosier veteran and a separate test in almost every program.
79 federal benefits apply here as well and are left off this page; the place page lists them.