Central Nebraska Veterans Treatment Court (Hall, Buffalo and Adams Counties)
The Central Nebraska Veterans Treatment Court serves veterans with criminal cases from Hall, Buffalo and Adams Counties, the Ninth and Tenth Judicial Districts, under an…
VetTOC · Veteran benefits reference
Hall County, Nebraska
Free help with a VA claim
- Hall County Veterans Service Office (also serving Howard, Nance and Sherman Counties). Hall County’s Veterans Service Office at 131 S. Locust Street in Grand Island, under county veterans service officer Donald L. Shuda, files federal, state and county claims and, by interlocal agreements, also serves Howard, Nance and Sherman Counties; its veterans service committee, not the county board, controls the contract dollars those counties pay. www.hallcountyne.gov/departments/veterans_services/index.php
- Nebraska County Veterans Aid Fund. Every county runs its own veterans relief fund off a dedicated levy, decided locally by the county veterans service committee. A refusal from the state fund is not a refusal from this one. nebraskalegislature.gov/laws/statutes.php?statute=80-102
Find a VA-accredited representative: www.va.gov/get-help-from-accredited-representative/find-rep
Hall County benefits
Hall County Veterans Aid Fund
Hall County’s veterans service committee pays temporary emergency aid for food, shelter, clothing, funeral, medical, dental and surgical needs under section 80-102; the county’s…
www.hallcountyne.gov/departments/veterans_services/veterans_aid_fund.php
Nebraska benefits that apply here
Nebraska Active Selected Reserve Tuition Credit
Seventy-five percent of resident tuition for an undergraduate programme and fifty percent for a graduate one, with no lifetime limit, but only two hundred people in the state may…
Nebraska County Duty to Bury and Mark a Veteran’s Grave
The county must decently inter a veteran who dies without the means to pay for a funeral, must not use a pauper cemetery, and must furnish a grave marker to any veteran buried in…
Nebraska Disabled Veteran Homestead Exemption
The entire taxable value of the home is exempt, with no income limit and no ceiling on the house value, for a veteran drawing compensation at 100 percent permanent or through…
Gate: One hundred percent service-connected permanent disability; Or a total disability rating for compensation under 38 C.F.R. 4.16
Nebraska Discharge Records and Free Records for a VA Claim
The county clerk keeps a Discharge Record that is confidential by statute and readable by only three kinds of person, and any Nebraska public record needed for a VA claim must be…
Nebraska Homestead Exemption for Surviving Spouses
The same total, uncapped exemption reaches an unremarried surviving spouse four ways, and remarriage after the age of fifty-seven no longer ends it.
Gate: One route follows the veteran’s 100 percent or unemployability rating
Nebraska Homestead Exemption for a Non-Service-Connected Total Disability
A wartime veteran totally disabled by something VA did not connect to service can still reach a homestead exemption, but this one is income tested, value capped, and gated on a…
Nebraska Homestead Exemption on a Temporary 100 Percent Rating
Nebraska is the only state in this catalog that opens its property tax exemption to a temporary 100 percent rating.
Gate: One hundred percent service-connected temporary disability
Nebraska Hunting, Fishing and Park Permits for Veterans
A free permanent combination permit and a free lifetime park entry permit at fifty percent, a five dollar annual permit five years earlier than other Nebraskans, and a free…
Gate: Fifty percent for the free permanent permit and the free park permit
Nebraska In-State Tuition for Veterans and Their Families
Resident tuition at any Nebraska public college from the first day, for a veteran with ninety days of service and for a family member using transferred benefits.
Nebraska Military Retirement Pay Income Tax Exclusion
One hundred percent of military retirement pay is excluded from Nebraska income tax, with no election, no form and no age condition.
Nebraska Military and Disabled Veteran License Plates
Disabled veteran plates at ten percent on any number of vehicles with no plate fee, plus prisoner of war, Purple Heart and branch plates.
Gate: Ten percent service-connected for the disabled veteran plate
Nebraska Mobile Home Property Tax Exemption for a Disabled Veteran
A mobile home owned and occupied by a service-connected disabled veteran is exempt from property tax outright, at any rating including zero percent.
Gate: Any service-connected disability, including a zero percent rating
Nebraska Motor Vehicle Tax and Fee Exemption for a Disabled Veteran
From January 1, 2026 one vehicle is free of the motor vehicle tax and the motor vehicle fee at any service-connected rating, but the request has to be made inside a narrow window…
Gate: Any service-connected disability recognised by VA
Nebraska National Guard Income Tax Exclusion
Drill pay, annual training, dual-status technician wages and state active duty pay are all excluded from Nebraska income tax, and from 2027 the exclusion widens to cover title 10…
Nebraska National Guard Tuition Assistance
One hundred percent of resident tuition for an undergraduate programme, at private nonprofit colleges as well as public ones, capped at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln rate…
Nebraska Private Employer Veterans Preference
A private employer of any size may adopt a written veterans preference policy, is protected from discrimination claims for using it, and is listed on a public registry kept by…
Nebraska Property Tax Exemption for a Paraplegic Veteran or Multiple Amputee
A home VA substantially contributed to is exempt for the life of the veteran and of an unmarried surviving spouse, and the exemption follows the proceeds into a replacement home…
Nebraska Tuition Credit for the Family of a Guard Member Who Dies in State Service
The spouse and children of a Nebraska National Guard member who dies in the active service of the state get full tuition for four undergraduate years, with a ten year window for…
Nebraska Veteran Promise Act
Every Nebraska public college must automatically accept a qualifying veteran or serving member who meets its admissions requirements.
Nebraska Veterans Cemetery System
Two state cemeteries, at Alliance and at Grand Island, on federal eligibility rules.
Nebraska Veterans Preference in Public Employment
Five percent added to a passing score, ten for a disabled veteran, and where no exam is used the preference decides between equally qualified candidates.
Gate: Any service-connected disability adds the second five percent
Nebraska Veterans’ Aid Fund
Emergency money for food, shelter, fuel, transport, clothing, medical care and funerals, paid from the interest on a trust the Legislature created in 1921.
Nebraska Veterans’ Homes
Four state homes offering assisted living, skilled nursing and memory care.
Nebraska Veterans’ Registry and the Veteran Designation
One registration with the Department of Veterans’ Affairs unlocks every military plate, the veteran designation on a driver’s licence and the vehicle tax exemption.
Nebraska Vets Get Pets
Up to $350 toward a veteran’s pet adoption fees, paid to the shelter, funded entirely by the sale of a licence plate and available only while the plate money lasts.
Nebraska Waiver of Tuition for Dependents of Veterans
All tuition, and the fees left after federal and state grants, waived at the University of Nebraska, the state colleges and the community colleges.
Gate: Or permanently and totally disabled as a result of military service; Permanent individual unemployability is inside the definition
Which Nebraska Benefit Uses Which Test
Nebraska has at least seven definitions of veteran and they disagree.
Gate: Zero percent: the mobile home exemption, the vehicle tax exemption, the preference points; Ten percent: the disabled veteran licence plate; Fifty percent: the free recreation permit and the free park entry permit; One hundred percent or unemployability: the homestead exemption
79 federal benefits apply here as well and are left off this page; the place page lists them.