VetTOC · Veteran benefits reference
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The Bernalillo County Assessor applies the State's $10,000 veteran exemption and the disabled veteran exemption in proportion to the VA rating, from the Department of Veterans'…
Gate: Any service-connected rating, for the proportional exemption
Bernalillo County guarantees an interview to every veteran, disabled veteran and National Guard member who meets a job's posted qualifications.
The Metropolitan Court's Community Veterans Court in Albuquerque takes veterans of any era and any discharge, and Guard and Reserve members, charged with a misdemeanour in…
metro.nmcourts.gov/services-programs/community-veterans-court
Veterans swim free at Bernalillo County's Rio Grande Indoor Pool, daily, monthly or yearly, and its fitness centre page lists veterans as free at the county's community centre…
www.bernco.gov/community-services/parks-recreation/swimming-pools-spray-parks/rio-grande-indoor-pool
Up to $30,000 a year of military retired pay, including disability retirement, is exempt from New Mexico income tax, and a surviving spouse can take the same $30,000 against a…
Free disabled veteran plates, with the registration fee waived, for up to two vehicles including motorcycles, for a veteran rated 50 percent or more.
Gate: 50 percent or more
From tax year 2026 the share of your home's taxable value exempt from property tax equals your VA disability percentage, after the $10,000 veteran exemption comes off: 30 percent…
Gate: Any service-connected rating of 10 percent or more, exempting that percentage
A home owned and lived in by a veteran rated 100 percent permanent and total is exempt from special benefit assessments, the levies of conservancy districts, public improvement…
Gate: 100 percent rating; Permanent and total; Or total through individual unemployability, which the statute neither names nor excludes; Permanent on the unemployability route too
A licensing board must issue a license within thirty days to a service member, military spouse or dependent child, or veteran who holds a current license from another state or…
Free tuition and up to $300 a year at a state institution for a child aged 16 to 26 of a New Mexico service member killed or who died as a result of service in armed conflict, or…
A local school board may give a high school diploma, even after death, to an honourably discharged veteran who left a New Mexico high school to serve in World War II, Korea or…
A free lifetime hunting and fishing licence for a resident veteran rated 100 percent, a $10 combination licence for any other resident disabled veteran, and half price on every…
Gate: Free lifetime licence at 100 percent
Active duty military pay is wholly exempt from New Mexico income tax, a Guard member's reimbursement for SGLI premiums is exempt, and a deployed member gets a year after…
Reemployment rights after service, custody protections for deploying parents, confidential and free recording of discharge papers, a crime of lying about service for gain, and…
Free plates with no registration fee for Purple Heart and Medal of Honor recipients, former prisoners of war and their surviving spouses, and serving Guard members; a $17 armed…
www.mvd.newmexico.gov/vehicles/license-plates/military-and-veterans
Half a million dollars to the beneficiaries a Guard member or state defense force member named, if the member is killed on state active duty, on top of any other death benefit.
Resident tuition for Guard members and their families, a Guard scholarship programme, state hiring preference while serving, fifteen days of paid military leave for public…
Since May 2024 military status is a protected class under the New Mexico Human Rights Act, in employment, housing, credit and public accommodations.
A veteran who cannot use the whole veteran property tax exemption can take it instead as registration fees at two-thirds of the normal rate, and a resident veteran who lost, or…
A veteran eligible for federal education benefits pays resident tuition at every public college, as do the spouse and children of a veteran who are eligible for GI Bill benefits,…
A certified resident veteran business or contractor with up to $6 million in annual revenue is treated as bidding ten percent lower, or gets ten percent of the evaluation points,…
Five points for an honourably discharged veteran and for a serving Guard member, ten for a veteran with a service-connected disability of any percentage, added to the passing…
Free general admission to state museums and historic sites all year for a resident veteran rated 50 percent or more, and free admission for any resident who has served, and their…
Gate: Free all year at 50 percent
Since July 1, 2025 every resident veteran, not only the 50 percent disabled, can get a free lifetime hang-tag pass for unlimited day use and camping, including utility hookups,…
Four state veterans cemeteries, at Fort Stanton, Gallup, Angel Fire and Taos, with a fifth planned in Carlsbad, for veterans and their families, alongside the national cemeteries…
A state nursing home for veterans, their spouses and Gold Star parents in Truth or Consequences, with six new small houses and an annex for about 131 residents.
Gate: VA pays the full cost at 70 percent or more
A veteran can have "Veteran" printed on a New Mexico driver's license or ID card at no extra cost on a first issue or renewal, on showing a DD-214 or a VA veteran ID card; adding…
www.mvd.newmexico.gov/nm-drivers-licenses-ids/veteran-designation
The $1,000 employer credit for hiring a recently returned veteran was repealed with effect from July 1, 2023.
Ten thousand dollars off the taxable value of property owned by a resident veteran with 90 days of active duty and an honourable discharge, or by the veteran's unmarried…
Tuition, required fees and a book allowance at a state college, for undergraduate or graduate study, for a resident veteran who entered service from New Mexico or has lived here…
New Mexico has no single definition. The Veterans' Services Department Act counts active duty, six continuous years in the Guard or reserves, or commissioned service in the…
79 federal benefits apply here as well and are left off this page; the place page lists them.