Summit County Fiscal Office: Disabled Veteran Homestead Exemption
Summit County's Fiscal Office takes the State's disabled veteran homestead application.
Gate: 100% service-connected; Individual unemployability at 100%
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Summit County, Ohio
Free help with a VA claim
- Summit County Veterans Service Commission: Emergency Financial Assistance. Short-term help with rent, mortgage, utilities and food for a Summit County veteran or family after three months in the county, decided at a walk-in interview on 30 days of income and expenses. Two of the commission's pages limit families to those of an honorably discharged veteran, narrower than its own veterans page and the statute. www.vscsummitoh.us/financial-assistance
- Summit County Veterans Service Commission: Rides to VA Care. Weekday rides from Akron to the Louis Stokes Cleveland VA Medical Center and other VA sites, the VA's Kent imaging and infusion centre and the Ohio Veterans Home in Sandusky, booked ahead, with a Tuesday and Thursday pickup for the county's northeast. www.vscsummitoh.us/transportation-services
- 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
Summit County benefits
Summit County Fiscal Office: Veteran ID Card
The Fiscal Office's Recorder Division issues an Ohio veterans ID card for $1 to a veteran whose DD-214 shows an "honorable discharge status".
Summit County Military Assistance Program: Property Tax Deferral for Activated Reservists
Summit County's Fiscal Office defers property tax for a Guard or reserve member called to active duty, as Ohio now requires of every county treasurer: no tax due during the duty…
Summit County Valor Courts
Summit County's Common Pleas Valor Court takes a veteran charged with a third, fourth or fifth degree felony, and Akron Municipal Court's Valor Court takes nonviolent charges,…
Summit County Veterans Service Commission: Indigent Burial Fund
Up to $1,000 toward the unpaid funeral or burial bill of a Summit County veteran, or a veteran's family member, who left no funds or assets, applied for by the person responsible…
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.