VetTOC · Veteran benefits reference
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Chisago County takes Minnesota's veterans preference in its own hiring: fill out the Claim for Veteran's Preference portion of the county's application form in UKG - Online Job…
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The Chisago County Recorder records a service member's Military Discharge Form (DD-214) at no charge and furnishes free certified copies to the filer; the records have been…
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Chisago County provides transportation for county veterans to the VA Health Care System in Minneapolis, the VA Health Care System in St.
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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.
$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.
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
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…
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…
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…
$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…
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…
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…
$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
All federal military retired pay, including SBP annuities, is subtracted, and so is title 10 active duty pay for residents.
$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
State active service now pays federal rates with a floor of E-5 basic pay, replacing the $130-a-day floor.
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…
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…
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
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…
Four state cemeteries with no plot or interment fee for a veteran.
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
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
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…
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…
Seven homes providing nursing care to veterans and their spouses.
A veteran in public employment cannot be removed except for incompetency or misconduct shown at a hearing.
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
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
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.