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Athens County, Ohio

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Free help with a VA claim

Athens County Veterans Service Commission. The Athens County Veterans Service Commission, 88 North Plains Road, Suite 102, The Plains (740-592-3216, fax 740-592-3217), Monday to Friday 8 to 4:30, works under Senior VSO Kim Spencer, Office Manager/VSO John Woods and Administrative Assistant Brian Artrip: individual guidance on VA and NGO eligibility, referrals, and, where necessary and appropriate, direct financial assistance, with applications due by 4 p.m.… www.athensveteransservicesoh.org
Athens County Veterans Service Commission: the R.S.V.P. Transportation Contract and Travel Reimbursement. The Athens County Veterans Service Commission contracts round-trip transportation for veterans to VA facilities through the R.S.V.P. agency - 72 hours notice, income within the VA Pension Rates, VA-health-care eligibility, with doctor-letter exceptions - to the Athens CBOC, Chillicothe, Columbus, Marietta, Logan, Gallipolis and Lancaster, and reimburses travel to VA visits with proof within 30 days. www.athensveteransservicesoh.org/transportation-rsvp
Ohio County Veterans Service Commissions. Every Ohio county must have a veterans service commission, funded by a county levy of up to half a mill, that gives temporary financial help to a veteran discharged under honorable conditions, a service member or their family after three months in the county, files VA claims free, arranges rides to VA medical centers and buries an indigent veteran. codes.ohio.gov/ohio-revised-code/chapter-5901

Find a VA-accredited representative: www.va.gov/get-help-from-accredited-representative/find-rep

Athens County benefits

Athens County Auditor: the Disabled Veteran’s Homestead Application

The Athens County Auditor takes the homestead exemption applications under Revised Code 323.151 and 323.152: a totally disabled veteran with a 100% service-connected rating (or…

Gate: 100% service-connected or TDIU as VA finds it

co.athensoh.org/departments/index.php

Athens County Common Pleas Veterans Treatment Court (Judge George P. McCarthy)

Judge George P. McCarthy's Athens County Veterans Treatment Court - created 2013-2015, certified by the Supreme Court of Ohio since 2015 and again through 2027, motto "Reclaiming…

co.athensoh.org/government/common_pleas_court/athens_county_ohio_veterans_court.php

Athens County Recorder: Veterans Discharge (DD-214) Recorded

The Athens County Recorder (Jessica Markins, 15 S. Court Street, Room 236, Athens, 740-592-3219) records Veterans Discharge (DD-214) among its documents; recording a discharge is…

co.athensoh.org/government/recorders_office.php

Ohio benefits that apply here

Ohio Civil Service Examination Credit for Veterans

A veteran who passes an Ohio classified civil service exam gets 20% of the grade added, and a Guard or reserve member who has finished initial training gets 15%.

codes.ohio.gov/ohio-revised-code/section-124.23

Ohio County Recorders: Free Discharge Recording and the Ohio Veterans ID Card

Every county recorder must record a discharge free, keep it out of the public record for 75 years, give one free certified copy, and expunge it or the separation code on request.

codes.ohio.gov/ohio-revised-code/section-317.24

Ohio Disabled Veteran Homestead Exemption

A larger homestead credit, with no income test, for a veteran rated 100% service-connected or paid at 100% for individual unemployability.

Gate: 100% service-connected; Individual unemployability at the 100% rate

tax.ohio.gov/help-center/faqs/real-property-tax-homestead-means-testing

Ohio Disabled Veteran License Plates and Driver License

No registration fee, service fee, or local motor vehicle tax on the first vehicle for a veteran rated or compensated at 100% service-connected, or awarded a VA vehicle allowance.

Gate: Rated or compensated at 100%

www.bmv.ohio.gov/military-veterans-with-disabilities-plates.aspx

Ohio Free Hunting and Fishing Licenses for Disabled Veterans

Free hunting and fishing licenses, plus deer, turkey, fur taker, and the wetlands stamp, for an Ohio resident veteran whose disability VA has found permanently and totally…

Gate: Permanently and totally disabled; 100% plate path

ohiodnr.gov/buy-and-apply/hunting-fishing-boating/hunting-resources/hunting-licenses-permits

Ohio Military Retirement Pay Deduction

Ohio deducts uniformed-services retirement pay, including reserve and Ohio National Guard retirement, from Ohio income.

tax.ohio.gov/individual/military/military-servicemembers-and-ohio-income-taxes

Ohio Veterans Homes

State nursing care at Sandusky and Georgetown for an honorably discharged Ohio veteran who served in wartime, or holds a listed expeditionary medal, and who cannot earn a living…

dvs.ohio.gov/veterans-homes/apply-today

Ohio War Orphans and Severely Disabled Veterans' Children Scholarship

Tuition help for a child, age 16 through 24, of a deceased veteran or of a veteran disabled at 60% or more service-connected, who served in a covered war period.

Gate: Parent rated at least 60% service-connected

highered.ohio.gov/students/pay-for-college/ohio-grants-scholarships/wos

79 federal benefits apply here as well and are left off this page; the place page lists them.