Anoka County Veterans Treatment Court
The Anoka County Veterans Treatment Court runs 18 to 24 months of regular appearances for a veteran who pleads guilty to an eligible offence, is VA health care benefits-eligible,…
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Anoka County, Minnesota
Free help with a VA claim
- Anoka County Veteran Services. Anoka County Veteran Services, in the Government Center at 2100 3rd Avenue, Suite 216, Anoka, helps county veterans and dependents claim benefits through county, state and federal programmes; call (763) 324-4500 to meet a Veteran Services Officer, weekdays 8 to 4 and Fridays to 3. www.anokacountymn.gov/344/Veteran-Services
- Minnesota County Veterans Service Officers. Every county must appoint one, it is a gross misdemeanour to pay or receive a fee for their help, and anyone advertising paid claims appeal services must disclose in the advertisement that the same work is free from a CVSO. www.revisor.mn.gov/statutes/cite/197.603
Find a VA-accredited representative: www.va.gov/get-help-from-accredited-representative/find-rep
Anoka County benefits
Anoka County: Veterans Disability Homestead Market Value Exclusion
Anoka County's Property Records & Taxation takes the State's veterans disability homestead exclusion - two levels, $150,000 and $300,000, by disability status - for an honorably…
Gate: 70% or higher service-connected rating
Minnesota benefits that apply here
Minnesota Benefits for Veterans of the Secret War in Laos
A named list of state veterans benefits for a Minnesota resident who served with a special guerrilla unit or irregular forces operating from Laos between 1961 and 1975.
Minnesota Credit for Military Service in a Combat Zone
$120 for each month or part of a month in a designated combat zone since 2008, refundable, with no income test and no requirement to have owed any Minnesota tax.
Minnesota Credit for Past Military Service
A nonrefundable $750 income tax credit for a 20-year veteran, a military retiree, or a veteran at 100 percent total and permanent.
Gate: Or a 100 percent total and permanent service-connected rating
Minnesota Dental, Optical, Relief and Disaster Grants for Veterans
Means-tested dental and optical care through an assigned provider inside a benefit period of at most 150 days, a once-per-lifetime veteran’s relief grant, a housing deposit…
Minnesota Educational Assistance for Survivors and POW/MIA Families
Free tuition and fees at Minnesota public institutions to a bachelor’s degree, plus $750 a year, for the child or spouse of a veteran who died of service or of a POW or person…
Minnesota GI Bill: Apprenticeship, On-the-Job Training and Licensing
The same $15,000 lifetime pot also pays $3,000 a year for apprenticeship or on-the-job training and $3,000 a year for licence and certification tests, plus $1,000 job-placement…
Minnesota GI Bill: Educational Assistance
$5,000 a year and $15,000 in a lifetime, but it is a last-dollar benefit: Pell, the state grant and every federal military education benefit are subtracted from cost of…
Minnesota High School Diploma for Korean and Vietnam War Veterans
A 2026 statute requiring a school district or charter school to issue a high school diploma on request to a Korean Conflict or Vietnam War veteran who never finished, for reasons…
Minnesota Higher Education Fairness for Veterans
Resident tuition for any veteran at a state college or university with no residency waiting period, mandatory ACE credit for military training at Minnesota State, and a bar on…
Minnesota Homestead Market Value Exclusion for a Surviving Spouse
$300,000 of excluded value reaches a surviving spouse by four routes, one of which is simply receiving DIC.
Gate: Or VA certifies the veteran met the total and permanent requirement
Minnesota Income Tax on Military Pay and Retired Pay
All federal military retired pay, including SBP annuities, is subtracted, and so is title 10 active duty pay for residents.
Minnesota Market Value Exclusion for a Veteran with a Disability
$150,000 of homestead market value excluded at a 70 percent rating and $300,000 at a total and permanent 100 percent.
Gate: Service-connected disability of 70 percent or more; Or a total (100 percent) and permanent disability, for $300,000
Minnesota National Guard Pay and Protection in State Active Service
State active service now pays federal rates with a floor of E-5 basic pay, replacing the $130-a-day floor.
Minnesota National Guard Tuition and Textbook Reimbursement
Up to 100 percent of University of Minnesota resident tuition, capped at 144 semester credits for life, with an eight-year extension after a service-connected separation and a…
Minnesota Private Employment Preference and Expedited Licensing
A private employer may prefer a veteran in hiring and promotion without breaching state or local equal employment law, and every professional licensing board must run an…
Minnesota State Park Permit, Hunting and Fishing for Veterans
The free annual state park permit takes any level of service-connected disability, which is the widest such test in this catalog, but it has to be re-proved every year.
Gate: The park permit takes any level of service-connected disability; Free angling, deer and small game licences need 100 percent; A reduced-fee tier at 50 to 99 percent takes effect March 1, 2027
Minnesota State Soldiers Assistance Program: Subsistence
Short-term income replacement in 30-day periods, up to six, for a veteran or surviving spouse kept from their usual occupation by a medical condition, or for a surviving spouse…
Minnesota State Veterans Cemeteries
Four state cemeteries with no plot or interment fee for a veteran.
Minnesota Vehicle, Title, Sales Tax and Driver’s Licence Fee Exemptions
A veteran rated 100 percent total and permanent pays no registration tax, plate fees or title fee on up to two vehicles, no motor vehicle sales tax, and no fee for any driver’s…
Gate: A 100 percent total and permanent service-connected rating; Unemployability is accepted in practice but is not named in the statute
Minnesota Veteran Designation and Special Licence Plates
Three designations on a driver’s licence or state ID, including an SGU Veteran marking from January 2027, and a plate series that reaches allied foreign service, Laos War…
Gate: The 100% T&P marking needs a 100 percent total and permanent rating
Minnesota Veteran-Owned Small Business Procurement Preference
Up to a 12 percent preference on state procurement, with a statutory floor that it can never be less than any other preference group, plus direct award without competition up to…
Minnesota Veterans Bonus Program (Closed)
The $600, $1,200 and $2,000 post-9/11 bonus is still printed in full in section 197.79, but the department has been barred from receiving or accepting new applications since June…
Minnesota Veterans Homes
Seven homes providing nursing care to veterans and their spouses.
Minnesota Veterans Preference Act: Protection From Removal
A veteran in public employment cannot be removed except for incompetency or misconduct shown at a hearing.
Minnesota Veterans Preference in Local Government Hiring
10 points on a competitive open examination, 15 for a disabled veteran, and 5 on a first promotional examination.
Gate: Any compensable rating gives 15 points instead of 10 on an open examination; The 5-point promotional credit needs a permanent rating of 50 percent or more
Minnesota Veterans Preference in State Employment
State jobs do not use points. Disabled veterans are listed ahead of everyone in the applicant pool, other veterans ahead of nonveterans, and the top five recently separated…
Gate: Any compensable rating puts the applicant at the top of the pool; Noncompetitive appointment is available at 30 percent, but is never required
Who Counts as a Veteran in Minnesota
One definition governs most of Minnesota law, and it asks for 181 consecutive days.
79 federal benefits apply here as well and are left off this page; the place page lists them.