Bucks County Burial Allowance, Headstones and Grave Markers
Bucks County pays $100 toward the funeral of a wartime veteran with an honorable discharge who lived in the county, and $100 for the surviving spouse, if claimed within one year.
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Bucks County, Pennsylvania
Free help with a VA claim
- Bucks County Department of Veterans Affairs. Bucks County's Department of Veterans Affairs, in Doylestown and Levittown, is the county director of veterans affairs' office: it files VA claims, pays the county burial allowance, issues the county veteran discount card and takes the State tax exemption and temporary assistance applications. By appointment, 215-345-3307. Its page on temporary assistance describes the law as it stood before 2016. www.buckscounty.gov/516/Veterans-Affairs
- Pennsylvania County Directors of Veterans Affairs. Every Pennsylvania county must appoint a director of veterans affairs, who has to hold VA accreditation and who files VA claims, pays the county burial allowance and takes applications for the State programmes. Since 2026, a funeral director must tell the county director within 96 hours when a veteran from the county dies. www.palegis.us/statutes/consolidated/view-statute?txtType=HTM&ttl=51&div=0&chapter=17
Find a VA-accredited representative: www.va.gov/get-help-from-accredited-representative/find-rep
Bucks County benefits
Bucks County Recorder of Deeds: Free Recording of Discharge Papers
The Bucks County Recorder of Deeds records military discharge papers free and gives the veteran three certified copies.
Bucks County Veteran Discount Card
Bucks County gives veterans, active duty members and, since October 30, 2018, Reserve and National Guard members a free county veteran ID card that participating businesses…
Bucks County Veterans Treatment Court
The Bucks County Court of Common Pleas runs a Veterans Treatment Court for county residents with PTSD, brain injury, military sexual trauma or a mental health or substance use…
Bucks County Wills for Heroes
Bucks County's Register of Wills and Clerk of Orphans' Court runs Wills for Heroes with the Pennsylvania Bar Association's Young Lawyers Division: free estate plans for…
Bucks County: Applying for the State's Disabled Veterans Real Estate Tax Exemption
Bucks County's Department of Veterans Affairs takes applications for Pennsylvania's full real estate tax exemption.
Gate: 100% permanent, on one path; Permanent on the 100% path; Individual unemployability
www.buckscounty.gov/533/Disabled-Veterans-Real-Estate-Tax-Exempt
Pennsylvania benefits that apply here
Pennsylvania Amputee and Paralyzed Veterans Pension
$150 a month for the loss or loss of use of two or more extremities, where each affected limb is rated at least 40%. No income test, and it is paid on top of VA compensation.
Gate: 40% or more in each affected limb
Pennsylvania Blind Veterans Pension
$150 a month for life to a veteran whose service caused the loss of vision.
Pennsylvania County Burial Allowance, Headstone Base and Grave Flags
Every Pennsylvania county pays at least $75 toward the funeral of a veteran who lived there and of a surviving spouse who has not remarried, sets the base for a free federal…
www.palegis.us/statutes/consolidated/view-statute?txtType=HTM&ttl=16&div=0&chapter=155
Pennsylvania Disabled Veteran Fishing License
A free lifetime fishing license at a 100% service-connected rating, and a $1 statutory fee (about $2.97 with issuing charges) at 60% to 99%.
Gate: 60% opens the reduced fee, 100% the free lifetime license
Pennsylvania Disabled Veteran Hunting and Furtaker License
Free hunting and furtaker licenses at a 100% rating or unemployability, and $2.97 at 60% to 99%.
Gate: 60% opens the reduced fee, 100% or unemployability the free license
www.pa.gov/agencies/pgc/huntingandtrapping/licenses-and-permits/license-types
Pennsylvania Disabled Veterans Real Estate Tax Exemption
A total exemption from real estate tax on the dwelling a wartime veteran lives in, at 100% permanent, unemployability, blindness, paraplegia, or the loss of two or more limbs.
Gate: 100% permanent service-connected disability; Total disability individual unemployability
Pennsylvania Educational Gratuity for Children of Disabled and Deceased Veterans
Up to $500 a term for eight terms, $4,000 in total, paid to a Pennsylvania school for a child of a wartime veteran rated 100 percent or who died in service or of a…
Pennsylvania Free Vehicle Registration for Disabled Veterans and Decorated Veterans
No registration or title fee on one passenger vehicle for a veteran who lost a limb or an eye or became partially paralyzed in service, and for a former prisoner of war, a Medal…
www.pa.gov/services/dmv/apply-for-free-registration-for-eligible-veterans
Pennsylvania Military Retired Pay and Military Pay Tax Treatment
Pennsylvania does not tax military retired pay at all, and it does not tax active duty pay a resident earns outside the Commonwealth.
www.pa.gov/agencies/revenue/resources/tax-types-and-information/personal-income-tax/military-pay
Pennsylvania Operation Recognition High School Diploma
A high school diploma a Pennsylvania school board may grant, as an honorary degree, to an honorably discharged veteran who left school to serve in World War II, Korea or Vietnam,…
Pennsylvania Postsecondary Educational Gratuity for Children of Fallen Guard Members
Waives the tuition, fees and on-campus room and board that other grants leave, at a Pennsylvania community college, state-owned or state-related school, for the child of a…
www.pheaa.org/documents/funding-opportunities/aid-for-military-national-guard/military-brochure.pdf
Pennsylvania Severely Disabled Veteran and Veteran License Plates
A Severely Disabled Veteran plate at a 100% rating or a listed condition.
Gate: 100% service-connected, for the Severely Disabled Veteran plate
www.pa.gov/agencies/dmv/resources/persons-with-disabilities-placards-plates
Pennsylvania State Veterans Homes
Six state veterans homes, from Erie to Philadelphia. A veteran rated 70% or higher who needs skilled nursing pays nothing.
Gate: A rating of 70% or more means no cost
Pennsylvania Veteran Designation on a Driver License
A free veteran designation on a Pennsylvania licence or ID for anyone discharged under conditions other than dishonorable, added online or by mail and carried forward at every…
www.pa.gov/agencies/dmv/resources/military-personnel-veterans/veterans-designation
Pennsylvania Veterans Preference in Public Employment
Pennsylvania's Veterans' Preference Act (51 Pa.C.S. Chapter 71) adds 10 points to a veteran's passing civil service examination score, makes an appointing authority prefer a…
www.palegis.us/statutes/consolidated/view-statute?txtType=PDF&ttl=51&div=0&chapter=71
Pennsylvania Veterans Temporary Assistance
Up to $1,600 in any twelve-month period for food, shelter, fuel, and clothing, for a veteran or a beneficiary of a veteran in immediate need. No disability rating is involved.
Pennsylvania Veterans Trust Fund Grants
A state fund, paid for largely by voluntary donations at driver license renewal and by veteran plate fees, that grants money to county veterans offices and to nonprofits serving…
79 federal benefits apply here as well and are left off this page; the place page lists them.