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Seneca County, Ohio

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Free help with a VA claim

Seneca County Board of Commissioners: the Veterans Services Budget Hearing and the 2026 Commission Appointment. The Seneca County Board of Commissioners (Anthony Paradiso, Bill Frankart, Brent Busdeker; County Administrator Barb Patterson) carried the veterans year in the October 2, 2025 budget hearing for Veterans Services and the October 6, 2026 Veteran's Commission appointment, with the Commission's own dollars-and-routes accounts in the county's post-meeting releases; no benefit was adopted, narrowed or repealed. senecacountyohio.gov/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/Agenda-100225.pdf
Seneca County Veterans Service Commission (Tara S. Balliet, CVSO / Director). The Seneca County Veterans Service Commission - CVSO/Director Tara S. Balliet (a U.S. Navy veteran, filing claims since March 2004, the county's director since 2010), CVSO/Assistant Director Scott Mareches, CVSO Kenzie Mitchell and Transportation Coordinator Mark Vittorio, 920 E. www.senecacountyveterans.org/index.htm
Seneca County Veterans Service Commission: Daily Van Transportation to Toledo, Ann Arbor, Findlay, Sandusky and Cleveland. The Seneca County Veterans Service Commission runs daily Monday-to-Friday van transportation - Toledo, Ann Arbor, Findlay, Sandusky and Cleveland appointments from 9:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. - to VA-ordered compensation and pension exams and Veterans Board of Appeals hearings in Cleveland, and provides no transportation to private Community Care providers. www.senecacountyveterans.org/transportation.htm
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

Seneca County benefits

Seneca County Auditor: the Disabled Veteran’s Homestead Exemption

The Seneca County Auditor (Julie A. Adkins, 109 S. Washington Street, Suite 2206, Tiffin, 419-447-0692) takes the homestead applications under Revised Code 323.151 and 323.152 -…

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

senecacountyauditoroh.gov/homestead-exemption

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.