VetTOC · Veteran benefits reference
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The County Clerk registers any veteran’s DD-214 at no charge (certified copies extra), and issues peddler’s licenses to honorably discharged veterans who have lived in New Jersey…
The county’s Veteran Cemetery Care Program places American flags on veterans’ graves just before Memorial Day and cuts the grass of unmaintained veteran graves all summer across…
The Sheriff’s Office issues a free Veteran ID card on an honorable DD-214 and proof of residency, Monday to Friday 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., (609) 265-3788; the County Clerk issues free…
A free round-trip shuttle to the Philadelphia VA Medical Center runs Tuesday through Friday, arriving 9:30 a.m. and departing 2:30 p.m., with seats reserved through Sen-Han…
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Free burial, grave liner, marker and perpetual care for eligible veterans at New Jersey's state veterans cemetery in Arneytown, North Hanover Township, with eligibility following…
Half fare on NJ Transit buses and trains at all times for a disabled veteran, except on peak commuter trains excluded from excursion fares.
Gate: A compensable service-connected disability from war service
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A $250 deduction from the property tax bill each year for an honorably discharged veteran with active service in any era who owns property and is domiciled in New Jersey, and for…
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A $6,000 personal exemption on the New Jersey income tax return for an honorably discharged veteran, and another $6,000 for a spouse on a joint return who is also a veteran.
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A full exemption from property tax on the home of a veteran whom VA has found totally and permanently disabled from service, by schedule or through unemployability, or who has…
Gate: 100 percent schedular rating; Permanent and total; Or paid at 100 percent through individual unemployability; Permanent and total, on the unemployability route too
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The state pays $1,800 a year, in monthly payments of $150, for life to a wartime veteran who entered service from New Jersey and is totally blind, paraplegic, hemiplegic or a…
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In New Jersey civil service, every disabled veteran who passes an open competitive exam is ranked above every veteran, and every veteran above every non-veteran, regardless of…
Gate: Disabled veterans preference with compensable service-connected disability from war service
New Jersey public colleges must give veterans and service members priority course registration, readmit a student who left for military service with the same academic standing…
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State agencies aim to award at least 3 percent of contracts to New Jersey businesses at least 51 percent owned by veterans with any service-connected disability, and a resident…
Gate: Any service-connected rating for the set-aside
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A $15 Disabled Vet plate for any veteran with a service-connected disability, free municipal meter parking for 24 hours with that plate or a placard, disability parking for a…
Gate: Any service-connected rating for the Disabled Vet plate and the meter exemption; Permanently 100 percent disabled for disability parking without a physician
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Free hunting, fishing and trapping licences, permits, stamps and tags for a New Jersey resident with any service-connected disability who was honorably discharged, and for an…
Gate: Any service-connected rating, including 0 percent
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Free undergraduate tuition at any New Jersey public or private college for a child of a service member from New Jersey declared a prisoner of war or missing in action after…
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Military retired pay and military survivor benefit payments are fully excluded from New Jersey income tax at any age, with no dollar limit.
Gate: Student loan discharge exclusion at 100 percent or through unemployability
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Up to 16 credits a semester tuition-free at a New Jersey public college or university, undergraduate or graduate, for an active New Jersey Guard member in good standing who has…
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A state-endorsed high school diploma, including after death, for an honorably discharged veteran of World War I, World War II, Korea or Vietnam who left a New Jersey high school…
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Every New Jersey licensing board must license a military spouse transferred here by endorsement or with a one-year temporary courtesy licence, teachers get a 180-day temporary…
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A resident deployed in time of war, or a Guard or reserve member mobilized for federal active duty, can defer property tax bills that fall due during the deployment until 90 days…
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Since January 2026 the Law Against Discrimination protects a person's service in the Armed Forces, not only liability for future service, in employment, housing, public…
Free admission to state parks and forests for active New Jersey Guard members and Gold Star families, free entry for veterans at a veterans' organization event, and a free beach…
Gate: Free beach driving permit at any service-connected rating
Seven state medals for New Jersey veterans, among them the Distinguished Service Medal for combat theater service, the Meritorious Service Medal and the Global War on Terrorism…
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The Motor Vehicle Commission prints a veteran designation on a driver licence or ID for a resident discharged honorably or under general honorable conditions from the Armed…
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A statewide program that lets police and prosecutors send a veteran or service member with a mental illness who is charged with a non-violent lower-level offense to treatment…
Two state-run transitional housing programs for homeless veterans, Veterans Haven North in Glen Gardner and Veterans Haven South in Winslow Township, with counseling, addiction…
Three state nursing homes for veterans of any era with 90 days of service, their spouses, surviving spouses and Gold Star parents, with preference for two years of New Jersey…
Gate: At 70 percent or more VA pays the full rate
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A veteran in the Public Employees' Retirement System or the Teachers' Pension and Annuity Fund can retire at 55 with 25 years, or at 60 with 20, on 54.5 percent of the best 12…
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Since January 2026 the primary home and one second home of a veteran, service member or military spouse are exempt from creditors without any value limit, along with retirement…
Two Vietnam-era programs, the Veterans Tuition Credit Program and Vietnam veterans tuition assistance, are still in the statutes and still advertised, but their application…
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Up to $500 a year for four years toward school or college for a New Jersey child aged 16 to 21 whose resident parent died in wartime service, died later of a disability from that…
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A refundable income tax credit of up to $675 a year for a New Jersey relative who cares for a post-9/11 veteran who meets VA's standard for individual unemployability and lives…
Gate: The veteran meets VA's standard for individual unemployability
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New Jersey has no single definition. Property tax relief and the income tax exemption need an honorable discharge from active service in any era.
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79 federal benefits apply here as well and are left off this page; the place page lists them.