VetTOC · Veteran benefits reference
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The Franklin County Register of Deeds records military discharges at no charge, as its Standard Fees page prints under TCA 8-21-1001, and keeps them off the public index under…
Franklin County's FY 2026-2027 proposed budget carries $85,000 on the County Commission's 540 Tax Relief Program line for the elderly low-income and disabled veterans relief the…
Gate: Permanent and total, as VA determines it
Franklin County budgets a Thank A Veteran Program in its Register of Deeds office - $21,000 in the FY 2026-2027 proposed budget - and the Register's site links the program's…
A veteran rated one hundred percent permanent and total from a service-connected cause, or a former prisoner of war, is exempt from the county wheel tax.
Gate: One hundred percent permanent total, service-connected
www.tn.gov/veteran/veteran-benefits/tn-state-benefits/motor-services.html
Two different deals. A resident veteran rated 100 percent permanent and total buys a permanent combination license once for ten dollars.
Gate: One hundred percent permanent and total buys the permanent license for $10; Thirty percent from wartime service is free
www.tn.gov/content/dam/tn/veteranservices/documents/MiscApp.pdf
A free plate for a veteran entitled to compensation for loss or loss of use of a foot or hand, prescribed vision loss, or one hundred percent permanent total disability.
Gate: Or one hundred percent permanent total
www.tn.gov/veteran/veteran-benefits/tn-state-benefits/motor-services.html
The state reimburses the local property tax on the first $175,000 of full market value of a disabled veteran’s home, with no income limit.
Gate: Service-connected permanent and total disability; Permanence is the test, not the percentage; Permanent unemployability reaches the same finding; Permanence on the unemployability route too
comptroller.tn.gov/content/dam/cot/pa/documents/tax-relief/tax%20relief%20tca.pdf
The means-tested programs a veteran falls back on when the disabled veteran route is out of reach: $38,470 of 2025 income and relief on the first $33,600 of market value for tax…
comptroller.tn.gov/content/dam/cot/pa/documents/tax-relief/TaxReliefBrochure.pdf
A state medal presented by the Governor to the immediate survivor of an active-duty member killed in action or killed in an attack targeting service members.
Tennessee taxes no income of any kind. The Hall tax on interest and dividends, the last thing that came close, was repealed for tax years beginning January 1, 2021, so there is…
A lottery-funded grant for post-9/11 veterans and Guard and reserve members holding the Iraq, Afghanistan or Inherent Resolve Campaign Medal or the Global War on Terrorism…
A veteran using VA education benefits and living in Tennessee pays no out-of-state tuition or fees at a public institution, regardless of formal residency.
www.tn.gov/veteran/veteran-education/scholarships/veterans/instate-tuition.html
A county or city may appropriate its own money to add to the state tax relief a disabled veteran already receives, up to the total tax actually paid.
comptroller.tn.gov/content/dam/cot/pa/documents/tax-relief/tax%20relief%20tca.pdf
A county register records a veteran’s discharge free of charge, and the record is confidential for seventy-five years rather than open to the public.
Twenty paid working days a year for a reserve or Guard member employed by the state, plus additional paid days for any call to active state duty, with no length-of-service…
Gate: Thirty-six hours a year of medical appointment leave at 30 percent
hrsupport.tn.gov/hc/en-us/articles/46458272086035-When-is-military-leave-with-pay-granted
Tennessee exempts a vehicle from sales tax for a uniformed service member on active duty stationed in the state, an AGR member, and a Guard or reserve member in a combat zone…
www.tn.gov/content/dam/tn/revenue/documents/taxguides/militaryveterans.pdf
A Guard member injured on state active duty or training is compensated as under workers’ compensation, on the higher of the civilian or federal wage.
codes.findlaw.com/tn/title-58-military-affairs-emergencies-and-civil-defense/tn-code-sect-58-1-230
A Tennessee private employer may adopt a written policy preferring veterans and certain spouses in hiring, and doing so is not an equal employment opportunity violation.
codes.findlaw.com/tn/title-50-employer-and-employee/tn-code-sect-50-1-107
A disabled veteran who moves in with a relative or into a hospital or nursing facility keeps the property tax relief, so long as there is an intent to return.
Three separate routes carry the disabled veteran’s property tax relief to a surviving spouse who does not remarry.
comptroller.tn.gov/content/dam/cot/pa/documents/tax-relief/TaxReliefBrochure.pdf
The administrative half of the tax relief program. A 35-day deadline with a good-cause waiver, a statutory power to cut every payment when the appropriation runs short, a…
comptroller.tn.gov/content/dam/cot/pa/documents/tax-relief/tax%20relief%20tca.pdf
Tuition reimbursement for a serving Tennessee National Guard member toward a first bachelor’s or master’s degree or a vocational certificate.
www.tn.gov/military/programs-benefits/education-incentives/state-ta.html
Burial at no fee in five state veterans cemeteries. A 2026 act opened eligibility to reserve and Guard members with eight years of service or any call to state orders, and made…
Six skilled nursing homes for veterans with a Tennessee connection.
Gate: Seventy percent moves the cost to the VA higher per diem
www.tn.gov/content/dam/tn/attorneygeneral/documents/ops/2020/op20-13.pdf
Full waiver of tuition and fees at state institutions for a child under 23, or the spouse, of a veteran killed, who died of service injuries, or reported a prisoner of war or…
An honorably discharged veteran, including a Guard member, can have the designation printed on a Tennessee driver license or photo ID at renewal.
www.tn.gov/veteran/veteran-benefits/tn-state-benefits/motor-services.html
Not points. A veteran who meets the minimum qualifications is guaranteed a first-round interview, wins a tie, and gets a written explanation filed within 30 days if passed over.
Gate: Spouse preference needs 100 percent, P&T, or a line-of-duty death
A statutory framework for veterans treatment courts, either standing alone or as a track inside a certified drug court, run on a nonadversarial model where the prosecutor and…
law.justia.com/codes/tennessee/title-16/chapter-6/section-16-6-101
Tennessee has no single definition. The discharge line moves from program to program, and the state veterans homes sit at the strictest end of it while the cemeteries sit at the…
www.tn.gov/content/dam/tn/attorneygeneral/documents/ops/2020/op20-13.pdf
79 federal benefits apply here as well and are left off this page; the place page lists them.