Buchanan County Recorder of Deeds: Free Military Discharge Recording
The Buchanan County Recorder of Deeds, 411 Jules Street, Room 103, St.
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Buchanan County, Missouri
Free help with a VA claim
- Missouri Veterans Service Officers. Commission staff may not accept or charge anything of value for helping a veteran, and doing so is a class A misdemeanour. The wider service officer network runs on matching grants from casino money rather than on a statutory officer in every county. revisor.mo.gov/main/OneSection.aspx?section=42.027
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Buchanan County benefits
Missouri benefits that apply here
How Missouri Pays for Veterans Homes and Cemeteries
The Veterans Commission Capital Improvement Trust Fund is funded by casino admission fees.
Missouri Disabled Veteran License Plate
Not available for any service-connected disability. The plate needs either a disability of the kind that would have earned a federal automobile grant, or compensation at the…
Gate: Or compensation at the total service-connected rate
Missouri Free Recording and Copies of Military Discharge Papers
Every county recorder of deeds in Missouri, and the City of St.
Missouri Hunting and Fishing Permits for Veterans
A veteran at 60 percent or a former prisoner of war may hunt and fish without a permit, but not for deer, turkey, bear or elk, and not trapping.
Gate: A service-related disability of 60 percent or greater
Missouri In-State Tuition and Academic Credit for Military Service
Separating service members, current Guard and reserve members, and dependents of members stationed here all get resident tuition, on three different statutes with three different…
Missouri Income Tax on Military Pay
Active duty component pay is fully deductible including the signing bonus, Guard drill and annual training pay reached 100 percent in tax year 2024, and enlistment bonuses were…
Missouri Income Tax on Military Retired Pay and Survivor Annuities
A retiree’s own military retirement is subtracted in full with no cap and no income test, including Guard and state militia service.
Missouri Military Family Relief Fund
Grants to the families of Missouri Guard and reserve members for expenses caused by a call to active duty, funded largely by a voluntary check-off on the state income tax return…
Missouri Military Leave and Reemployment for Public Employees
Paid military leave for every public employee in the state rose from 120 to 160 hours a federal fiscal year in 2026, state-call duty is unlimited, and Guard members on state…
Missouri Military License Plates, Veteran Designation and Free Parking
One set of any military plate is free of special-plate and personalisation fees, and plates authorised after 2006 carry no count limit.
Missouri National Guard Educational Assistance
A tuition and fee waiver at Missouri public institutions plus a grant programme, capped at University of Missouri average tuition and 120 completed credit hours.
Missouri Operation Recognition Honorary High School Diploma
An honorary high school diploma for any honorably discharged veteran who left school to serve and did not return, and for civilian prisoners of war.
Missouri Private Employer Preference and Veteran Employment Priority
A private employer may prefer veterans without breaching state equal employment law, and every federally funded state training programme must run a five-tier veteran priority…
Missouri Procurement Preference for Veteran-Owned Businesses
Two parallel three-point bonus preferences with three percent goals, one for any honorably discharged veteran-owned enterprise created in 2026 and one for service-disabled…
Missouri Property Tax Credit for a 100 Percent Disabled Veteran
Outside a narrow exemption for a totally disabled former prisoner of war, Missouri has no veteran property tax exemption.
Gate: A veteran who became 100 percent disabled as a result of service
Missouri Property Tax Exemption for a Totally Disabled Former Prisoner of War
Since 2010 the Missouri Constitution exempts from property tax the whole homestead of a former prisoner of war who has a total service-connected disability.
Gate: Total service-connected disability, schedular 100%; Total service-connected disability through unemployability
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Missouri Relief From State Law Obligations During Active Duty
Eleven separate state-law reliefs for a Missouri resident on qualifying active duty of thirty days or more: insurance, licence renewal, vehicle registration, professional…
Missouri Returning Heroes’ Education Act
Tuition capped at $50 per credit hour for a combat veteran at any Missouri public institution, and at 30 percent of tuition and fees for a graduate degree.
Missouri Service Medallion and Medal Programs
Medallions, medals and certificates for six conflicts, three of them added in 2026.
Missouri Veterans Homes
Seven homes, and admission is an entitlement rather than a discretion for a Missouri citizen who meets the federal definition of veteran or holds an honorable Guard discharge.
Missouri Veterans Preference in State Employment
The merit system preference is a tie-breaker and nothing more: it applies only "if all other relevant job-related factors are equal" and names no points.
Missouri Veterans Treatment Courts
Any Missouri circuit court, or several together, may set up a veterans treatment court for veterans and current service members charged with a crime who have a substance use or…
Missouri Wartime Veteran’s Survivors Grant
Tuition, $2,000 a semester for room and board and $500 a semester for books, for the child or spouse of a service member killed, injured in combat, or rated 80 percent from…
Gate: Or became 80 percent disabled from combat injuries after September 11, 2001
Who Counts as a Veteran in Missouri
Missouri writes no service test of its own for chapter 42. It adopts whatever the United States Department of Veterans Affairs says, which means the state definition moves when…
79 federal benefits apply here as well and are left off this page; the place page lists them.