Montgomery County Auditor: Disabled Veteran Homestead Exemption
Montgomery County's Auditor takes the State's disabled veteran homestead application by mail, on DTE 105I.
Gate: 100% service-connected; Individual unemployability at 100%
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Montgomery County, Ohio
Free help with a VA claim
- Montgomery County Veterans Service Commission Dental Assistance Program. A voucher for one routine dental examination and cleaning a year at a participating dentist, for a Montgomery County veteran of 90 days with a general discharge or better who holds the county Recorder's veteran ID card and has met a service officer in the last two years. mcvsc.org/mcvsc-services/dental
- Montgomery County Veterans Service Commission: Emergency Financial Assistance. Short-term help with rent, mortgage, utilities, food vouchers and emergency repairs for a Montgomery County veteran or family after three months in the county, paid to the landlord, lender or vendor, with a lifetime cap of $25,000 a person set by the commission. Its page adds a VA compensation condition for spouses and parents that the statute does not have. mcvsc.org/mcvsc-services/financial-assistance
- Montgomery County Veterans Service Commission: Rides to Medical Appointments. Rides to any medical appointment in Montgomery County, not only the VA, for a veteran with an honorable or general discharge and no other way to get there: an RTA bus pass by mail, paratransit for a veteran who cannot reach a stop, and since June 2026 the commission's own vehicle. mcvsc.org/mcvsc-services/transportation
- 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
Montgomery County benefits
Montgomery County Common Pleas Veterans Treatment Court
The Common Pleas Court's certified Veterans Treatment Court, running since 2013, takes a veteran with an honorable or general discharge on felony community control or…
Montgomery County Recorder: Free DD-214 Recording and Veteran ID Card
The Recorder records a DD-214 free and issues a free Ohio veterans ID card to anyone who records it there, county resident or not, at the office or at mobile events.
Montgomery County Veterans Service Commission: Indigent Veteran Burial
Up to $1,000 toward the funeral of a veteran who died without the means to pay, applied for by the funeral home and judged like any assistance application.
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%.
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.
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…
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.