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Geary County, Kansas

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Geary County benefits

Geary County Register of Deeds: Free DD-214 Recording and Copies

The Geary County Register of Deeds, 200 E. 8th Street, Room 133, Junction City (785-238-5531), records a veteran's DD-214 free and gives free certified copies on request, with…

www.gearycounty.gov/DocumentCenter/View/1272

Kansas benefits that apply here

Kansas Additional Personal Exemption for Disabled Veterans

An extra $2,320 Kansas exemption from tax year 2025 for a veteran receiving compensation at the 100 percent rate for a permanent disability.

Gate: In receipt of compensation at the 100 percent rate; And the disability is permanent; Unemployability pays at the 100 percent rate; Permanence on the unemployability route too

www.ksrevisor.gov/statutes/chapters/ch79/079_032_0121.html

Kansas Disabled Veteran Business Contract Preference

The state sets a goal of awarding at least 3 percent of its service contracts to businesses at least 51 percent owned and actually controlled by veterans rated 30 percent or more.

Gate: Service-connected evaluation of 30% or more

www.ksrevisor.gov/statutes/chapters/ch73/073_002_0030.html

Kansas Disabled Veteran Permanent Hunting and Fishing License

A free permanent licence to hunt and fish for a Kansas resident rated 30 percent or more. Bought once, never renewed, and the lowest disability threshold in the Kansas code.

Gate: Service-connected evaluation of 30% or more

www.ksrevisor.gov/statutes/chapters/ch32/032_009_0034.html

Kansas Disabled Veteran Plate and Parking Privileges

A free plate and free registration at 50 percent, and with it free metered parking with no time limit anywhere in Kansas, whether or not the veteran qualifies for the wheelchair…

Gate: Service-connected evaluation of 50% or more

www.ksrevisor.gov/statutes/chapters/ch08/008_001_0060.html

Kansas Disabled Veteran Sales Tax Exemption

Live since July 1, 2026. A veteran rated 100 percent permanent, or permanently unemployable, carries a card and buys up to $24,000 a year of ordinary goods and services free of…

Gate: Certified at 100 percent, and permanent; Permanence is required on the schedular route; Or deemed totally disabled or unemployable; Permanence on the unemployability route too

www.ksrevisor.gov/statutes/chapters/ch79/079_036_0006h.html

Kansas Hero’s Scholarship

Tuition and fees waived at Kansas public institutions for up to 10 semesters for a prisoner of war, or for the dependent or spouse of a Kansas resident who died in service, was…

Gate: Eighty percent reaches the family of a living veteran

www.ksrevisor.gov/statutes/chapters/ch75/075_043_0064.html

Kansas In-State Tuition for Veterans and Service Members

Three separate routes to resident tuition rates with no waiting period: using VA education benefits and living here, having been stationed in Kansas 11 months, or being a current…

www.ksrevisor.gov/statutes/chapters/ch48/048_036_0001.html

Kansas Income Tax on Military Retired Pay

Kansas taxes income but not military retired pay. Retired pay, Survivor Benefit Plan annuities and social security in federal adjusted gross income are all subtracted out, with…

www.ksrevenue.gov/pdf/ia-36.pdf

Kansas Military Discharge Records: Free Recording, Closed Records

A Kansas register of deeds records an honorably discharged veteran’s discharge free and gives the first five certified copies free; the recorded DD-214 is closed to the public…

www.ksrevisor.gov/statutes/chapters/ch73/073_002_0010a.html

Kansas Motor Vehicle Property Tax Exemption for Service Members

No motor vehicle property tax on up to two vehicles for a Kansas resident who is on full-time active duty, mobilised, stationed in Kansas, or a current member in good standing of…

www.ksrevisor.gov/statutes/chapters/ch79/079_051_0007.html

Kansas Property Tax Deferral for Deploying Service Members

A member deploying outside the United States for six months or more may defer the property tax on their principal residence for up to two years, with interest and penalties waived.

www.ksrevisor.gov/statutes/chapters/ch79/079_016_0012.html

Kansas State Employee Military Leave and Activation Pay

Thirty working days of paid military leave a year for a state employee in the Guard or reserves, plus, on a mobilization of more than thirty consecutive days, a pay differential…

www.ksrevisor.gov/statutes/chapters/ch75/075_032_0028.html

Kansas Veterans Preference in Public Employment

The strongest preference in this catalog. It binds cities and counties as well as the state, requires certified-mail notice to every veteran passed over within 30 days, and gives…

Gate: O-4 and above retirees need combat wounds or a 10 percent rating

www.ksrevisor.gov/statutes/chapters/ch73/073_002_0001.html

Which Kansas Percentage Opens Which Benefit

Kansas writes one definition of disabled veteran into six statutes and changes only the number: 30, 50, 80, 100, or any rating at all.

Gate: Thirty percent: hunting and fishing licence, and the business preference; Fifty percent: the plate, and both property tax refunds; Eighty percent: a dependent’s tuition; One hundred percent permanent: both tax exemptions

www.ksrevisor.gov/statutes/chapters/ch73/073_002_0001.html

79 federal benefits apply here as well and are left off this page; the place page lists them.