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Trumbull County, Ohio

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Free help with a VA claim

Trumbull County Veterans Service Commission: Emergency Financial Assistance. Help with rent, mortgage, utilities, food and other needs for a Trumbull County veteran or family after 90 days in the county, applied for by packet with 30 days of income and 60 days of bank records, receipts due back within 45 days, before a board that meets every Thursday morning and whose members are paid $200 a meeting. trumbullcountyvets.org/services
Trumbull County Veterans Service Commission: Free Dental Clinic. A free dental van from St. Elizabeths Hospital and the Kikel Dental Clinic comes to the commission office on the fourth Thursday of each month, doing everything from cleanings to extractions; veterans schedule by calling 330-536-3045. trumbullcountyvets.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/TCVSO-Annual-2023.pdf
Trumbull County Veterans Service Commission: Van Rides to the Cleveland VA. A free van to the Louis Stokes Cleveland VA Medical Center every weekday since 1988, leaving the Warren office at 7 a.m. for appointments between 8:30 a.m. and 1 p.m. and returning when the riders are done, or by 2:30 p.m.; 1,032 veterans rode in 2023. trumbullcountyvets.org/services/#VA-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

Trumbull County benefits

Trumbull County Auditor: Disabled Veteran Homestead Exemption

The Trumbull County Auditor takes the State's disabled veteran homestead application, DTE 105I, with the DD-214 and award letter, but its page still gives the 2025 figure of…

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

www.co.trumbull.oh.us/Auditor/Real-Estate/Homestead

Trumbull County Recorder: Free Discharge Recording and Veteran ID Cards

The Recorder records a DD-214 free and gives authorized parties one certified copy, charges $2 a page and $1 a certification for further copies, and prints a veteran ID card…

www.co.trumbull.oh.us/recorder/rs_vetid.html

Trumbull County: Memorial Affairs, Flags and the Veterans Memorial

The commission's office supplies grave flags and markers, coordinates the placement of more than 30,000 flags a year with the county's 31 veteran organizations, takes…

trumbullcountyvets.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/TCVSO-Annual-2023.pdf

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.