VetTOC · Veteran benefits reference
Find a VA-accredited representative: www.va.gov/get-help-from-accredited-representative/find-rep
A reserve or National Guard member called to active duty outside Pennsylvania gets a credit against the City's share of the real estate tax on the home they own and live in, for…
www.phila.gov/services/payments-assistance-taxes/tax-credits/active-duty-tax-credit
City of Philadelphia civil service applies the State's veterans preference, and the Home Rule Charter lets an appointing authority pass over a non-veteran to hire a veteran…
www.phila.gov/departments/office-of-human-resources/careers/civil-service-faqs
Philadelphia's Department of Records records a DD-214 or NGB-22 free and gives copies free to those entitled to them.
www.phila.gov/2024-12-18-safeguarding-our-veterans-military-discharge-papers
Philadelphia Municipal Court's Veterans Court pairs a veteran charged with a crime with a veteran mentor and with veteran service organization staff on site in the courtroom, who…
www.courts.phila.gov/municipal/criminal/diversion-programs-and-problem-solving-courts
In Philadelphia the State's full real estate tax exemption goes through the Office of Veterans Affairs in City Hall.
Gate: 100% permanent, on one path; Permanent on the 100% path; Individual unemployability
$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
$150 a month for life to a veteran whose service caused the loss of vision.
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
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
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
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
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…
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 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
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,…
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
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
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
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'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
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.
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.