VetTOC · Veteran benefits reference
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Aiken County's tax FAQ describes the State's exemption for a veteran totally disabled from a service-connected cause, or the surviving spouse, as covering "a house and one acre…
The Second Judicial Circuit Solicitor runs a Veterans Treatment Court in Aiken County for non-violent offenders who served in the armed forces, with substance use or mental…
Up to three free plates for a veteran considered totally and permanently disabled from a service-connected disability, in four designs including wheelchair and female variants.
Gate: Totally and permanently disabled from a service-connected disability; Or individual unemployability, on the VA letter
Any institution of higher education receiving state funding, directly or indirectly, must excuse a student called to military service, duty, training or disaster relief, may not…
Free tuition at any state-supported college, university or technical college for the child of a wartime veteran who meets one of nine conditions.
Gate: One route is permanent and total disability "from any cause"
A free three-year combination hunting and fishing licence for any resident receiving VA disability benefits, with no rating floor, plus free deer tags.
Gate: Any level of VA disability benefits opens the free licence
A veteran with ninety days of active duty using Chapter 30, 31 or 33 benefits pays in-state tuition with no waiting period, and so does a transferee.
An employer earns $3,000, then $2,500, then $1,000 for a veteran hired into a federally validated registered apprenticeship.
All military retirement income is deductible with no cap and no age condition, from tax year 2022.
Guard and reserve drill pay, inactive duty training pay and the customary annual training period are excluded from South Carolina gross income, with the annual training capped at…
A licensing board must approve a relocating military spouse to keep working on an out-of-state licence and must issue the South Carolina licence within fifteen business days of a…
Grants of $500 on mobilised status, $1,000 to next of kin on a service injury or death, and up to $2,000 on need, from a fund built out of income tax check-off donations.
Fifteen paid workdays a year for Guard and reserve duty, thirty more in an emergency, and thirty more for a state employee serving in a combat zone who has exhausted military…
Article 149 sorts military plates into six tiers, and which tier a plate sits in decides whether it is free and whether it parks free at a meter.
Grants of up to 100 percent of tuition and fees, including textbooks, for a drilling South Carolina Guard member.
The house and its lot are exempt from all property tax. The test is not a rating percentage: the statute defines permanently and totally disabled as the inability to perform…
Gate: Permanently and totally disabled from a service-connected disability; Or individual unemployability, which is the same functional test
A Medal of Honor recipient or a former prisoner of war is exempt on the dwelling and one acre, and on two vehicles.
A clerk of court records a discharge free of charge, certified copies cost no more than fifty cents, and since 2005 a recorded DD-214 is not a public record.
A Guard or State Guard member released from duty ordered by the Governor has a right to the previous position, enforceable in circuit court with lost wages and benefits.
An active member of the state retirement system may buy up to six years of service credit for military service, at an actuarially neutral price with a floor of sixteen percent of…
South Carolina adopts the federal SCRA as state law, extends it to state active duty, and adds a right to terminate telecom, internet, television, gym and satellite radio…
Burial at no charge for a veteran with an honorable discharge, and a fee not exceeding cost for an immediate family member.
Two private passenger vehicles are exempt from property tax.
Gate: Total and permanent disability, certified to the DMV; Or individual unemployability, on the same certification
A free veteran designation on the front of a driver’s licence or identification card. Three document routes, and the National Guard route demands at least twenty years of service.
Six state veterans homes, moved from the Department of Mental Health to the Department of Veterans’ Affairs in 2024 and 2025.
South Carolina has no statutory veterans preference. The preference is a Department of Administration policy effective January 1, 2021 requiring that at least one qualified…
South Carolina has no single statutory definition of veteran.
79 federal benefits apply here as well and are left off this page; the place page lists them.