VetTOC · Veteran benefits reference
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Nance County keeps no section 80-102 aid fund and budgets no aid line; its only veterans line is the $20,945 contract for Hall County’s Veterans Service Office in Grand Island,…
auditors.nebraska.gov/Budgets_Filed/2026/Nance_County_B2526.pdf
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…
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…
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
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…
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
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 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
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
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.
One hundred percent of military retirement pay is excluded from Nebraska income tax, with no election, no form and no age condition.
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
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
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
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Every Nebraska public college must automatically accept a qualifying veteran or serving member who meets its admissions requirements.
Two state cemeteries, at Alliance and at Grand Island, on federal eligibility rules.
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
Emergency money for food, shelter, fuel, transport, clothing, medical care and funerals, paid from the interest on a trust the Legislature created in 1921.
Four state homes offering assisted living, skilled nursing and memory care.
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.
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.
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
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.