VetTOC · Veteran benefits reference
Find a VA-accredited representative: www.va.gov/get-help-from-accredited-representative/find-rep
Great Parks, the county's park district, gives an honorably or medically discharged veteran, or an active-duty or reserve member, a free two-year motor vehicle permit, and 20%…
Hamilton County's Auditor takes the State's disabled veteran homestead application, and asks for applications by October 16, 2026 so new homes share in the State's one-time 2026…
Gate: 100% service-connected; Individual unemployability at 100%
The commission pays up to $1,000 toward the cremation or burial of a veteran who died without means, in practice through one funeral home's reduced-cost cremation, though the…
The Recorder records a discharge free and issues a free veteran ID card by appointment, but asks for an "honorable" discharge where the statute bars only a dishonorable one, and…
recordersoffice.hamilton-co.org/additional_services/veterans_id_cards.html
The Common Pleas Felony Veterans' Treatment Court takes a veteran charged with a third, fourth or fifth degree felony, with the prosecutor's consent and a guilty plea, and may…
hamiltoncountycourts.org/index.php/felony-veterans-treatment-court
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%.
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.
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
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
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 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
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…
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.