VetTOC · Veteran benefits reference
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The St. Clair County Clerk files DD-214s during business hours and keeps them confidential, but has stopped processing the county's veteran discount cards and sends veterans to…
St. Clair County's Department of Veterans Affairs at 200 Grand River in Port Huron files VA claims free, runs the county's relief, hardship and burial benefits and a volunteer…
St. Clair County's own Emergency Relief/Hardship Fund aids peacetime as well as wartime veterans and their dependents as a fund of last resort, pays providers directly, caps a…
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A St. Clair County employee in the retirement system can buy up to five years of credit for active duty of 30 days or more: intervening military service that interrupted county…
St. Clair County's Soldiers and Sailors Relief Fund pays emergency grants to indigent wartime veterans with an honorable or general discharge, their un-remarried spouses and…
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St. Clair County pays up to $1,000 toward a qualifying veteran's burial - $1,000 to the funeral home on an unpaid bill, $600 reimbursed when it was paid - and its check registers…
The price of not reapplying each year is a mandatory local audit program, a duty to rescind within 45 days, and an assessor who can deny the current year plus the three before it…
No Michigan department or agency may count an Agent Orange judgment or settlement as income or resources when deciding assistance, services, or a charge based on income level.
Up to $2,800 an academic year for the child of a Michigan veteran who died in service, died of a service-connected cause, or was rated totally and permanently disabled.
A county pays $300 toward the burial of a wartime veteran or their spouse whose estate is under $40,000, with the homestead excluded from the count.
Every county must levy up to a tenth of a mill for the relief of indigent wartime veterans and their families, administered by a soldiers relief commission of three veterans…
Compensation for service in the armed forces, including military retired pay, is deducted from Michigan taxable income in full.
From the 2025 tax year, a disabled veteran deducts the cancelled debt reported on a 1099-C when the Department of Education discharges a student loan under the total and…
Gate: Permanently and totally disabled at the 100% rate; Permanence is part of the first route; Individually unemployable, with no permanence required
The entire homestead comes off the tax roll, with no ceiling on value.
Gate: Permanently and totally disabled at the 100% rate; Permanence is part of the first route; Individually unemployable, with no permanence required
Since April 2025 a veteran rated 50 percent or more can hold the DV plate, and a surviving spouse can keep it.
Gate: Fifty percent for the plate itself
A discharge recorded with the county clerk is confidential for 70 years, free to the veteran and to a service officer, and a certified copy is admissible as evidence of the…
Ex-POW, Medal of Honor, Purple Heart, Pearl Harbor survivor, World War I, Gold Star and Blue Star plates.
A resident veteran rated permanently and totally disabled at the 100 percent rate, or individually unemployable, gets any resident hunting or fishing license free, except those…
Gate: Permanently and totally disabled at the 100% rate; Permanence is part of the first route; Individually unemployable, with no permanence required
A school district may award a diploma to a veteran of the Second World War, Korea or Vietnam who was enrolled in that district and left before graduating.
An alternative credit computed from a taxable value allowance of $2,500 to $4,500 set by a table last updated in 1996.
Gate: Ten percent is enough, and the allowance rises in bands
An extra personal exemption, $500 for the 2025 tax year, for each taxpayer and each dependent who is a veteran with any service-connected disability.
State law that covers governor-ordered state active duty, which USERRA does not, reaches service in any state’s National Guard, and awards reinstatement and attorney fees in…
A stipend for child care during drill and annual training, for a single parent or where both parents are Guard members.
Up to $14,400 toward an associate or bachelor degree and $6,000 toward a master degree, certificate or trade program, at any Michigan school.
Created in December 2025, this reimburses a Michigan Guard member for premiums paid for individual TRICARE Reserve Select or TRICARE Dental cover, out of the new member benefit…
From July 2026, a full-time firefighter or law enforcement officer in the reserve components gets at least 26 days of paid military leave a year at full pay.
A private employer of any size may adopt a veterans preference for hiring, promotion or retention in a layoff.
A Michigan professional or occupational license held at the time of entering service stays in full force without any further action until discharge, and the act overrides…
The full exemption passes to an unremarried surviving spouse and, unusually, follows them to a house bought after the veteran died.
A 1909 statute making it unlawful for a carrier, innkeeper or place of public amusement to refuse service to someone in uniform, with actual damages plus $100 and a prima facie…
A separate act for public employees: restoration to the old position, a year of protection against discharge without cause, employer pension contributions for the period away,…
A veteran in a Michigan public job can be removed, suspended or transferred only on six enumerated grounds, after 15 days written notice and a hearing before a named official,…
Anyone regularly enlisted or commissioned in the armed forces and officially stationed in Michigan is a resident for every game and fish law, with all the privileges a resident…
Entry to state parks is free for a vehicle carrying a disabled veteran, ex-prisoner of war or Medal of Honor plate.
Gate: Fifty percent now reaches it through the plate
Authorised in 2022, Michigan’s first state-run veterans cemetery is identified in statute only by a county population bracket of 12,500 to 13,500, and the department must apply…
A veteran of this state, another state, or the United States may ask for the designation.
Nursing and domiciliary care at Chesterfield Township, Grand Rapids and Marquette, run by a state authority.
A county clerk must issue a resident veteran a free one-year license to sell their own goods for personal gain.
Since April 2025 every Michigan employer with one or more full-time employees must post a veterans resource notice listing nine specific items, including the crisis line.
A veteran shall be preferred for appointment and employment in every public department and on every public work of the state, its counties and its municipal corporations.
A circuit or district court may run a veterans treatment court for a veteran with 180 days of active duty whose offense is generally related to service.
A 1946 permanent fund whose earnings pay one-off grants for an unforeseen financial emergency, decided by a county committee of veterans, with an appeal to a state board whose…
Section 35.61 is meant to be the uniform definition and is the widest in this catalog: no minimum service, reserve components included, and a discharge under conditions other…
79 federal benefits apply here as well and are left off this page; the place page lists them.