VetTOC · Veteran benefits reference
Find a VA-accredited representative: www.va.gov/get-help-from-accredited-representative/find-rep
Salt Lake County Aging and Adult Services runs the VA's Veteran Directed Care programme locally: a disabled veteran of any age gets a budget for in-home care and hires their own…
www.saltlakecounty.gov/aging-adult-services/services/home-community-based-care
Salt Lake County Animal Services, the only municipal shelter in Utah partnered with Pets for Patriots, waives the adoption fee for veterans, active-duty members and their…
www.saltlakecounty.gov/animal-services/programs/pets-for-patriots
Salt Lake County's Treasurer takes Utah's veteran disability exemption by September 1: the rating percentage of $535,459 of taxable value in 2026, from $53,546 at 10 percent to…
Gate: A rating of 10 percent or more, in proportion; Unemployability counts as 100 percent
The Third District Court runs a veterans court in Salt Lake City, at least 18 months long and usually 20 to 24, with VA treatment, testing and graduated sanctions.
www.utcourts.gov/en/courts/court-types/problem-solving-courts.html
Serve 200 days of active duty outside Utah inside any continuous 365-day period and the entire taxable value of your Utah primary residence is exempt for the following calendar…
New in 2026: the Division of Professional Licensing must, with the veterans department, publish a public resource mapping military skills, credentials, training and education…
Utah community colleges must give enrolment preference to veterans who show anything other than a dishonorable discharge, which is the widest discharge test in the Utah code.
Any Utah veteran, at any age, may enrol at a public institution in classes with surplus space and is exempt from tuition and other charges except a registration fee the board sets.
A Utah local school board may award an honorary high school diploma to a veteran of World War II, Korea or Vietnam who left school to enlist.
A Utah resident with a service-connected disability of 20 percent or more buys a fishing licence for $12 against $39, a hunting licence for $25.50 and a combination licence for…
Gate: A 20 percent service-connected rating, which the statute does not require
State employees get 15 days of paid military leave a year on top of vacation; counties and cities may grant the same but do not have to.
Utah gives a nonrefundable credit equal to the income tax rate multiplied by your military retirement pay, which cancels the Utah tax on that pay.
The Utah National Guard may pay tuition and fees for an active member at a Utah institution, capped at the resident rate for the course actually taken, and fees here expressly…
Utah enacted a 2026 law directing the Huntsman Mental Health Institute to run a clinical study of MDMA, psilocybin or 5-MeO-DMT assisted therapy for veterans with…
A Utah resident veteran who earned a Purple Heart gets undergraduate tuition waived outright at any public institution, full-time, part-time or summer.
A Utah public officer or employee who enters military service gets up to five years of leave, must be restored to the same or an equivalent position within 20 days of asking, and…
A Utah public institution must classify a veteran as a resident student for tuition on evidence of an honorable or general discharge, regardless of whether the veteran ever…
Undergraduate tuition is waived at Utah public institutions for a dependent of a service member killed on state or federal active duty, or who died of wounds received on such duty.
Utah gives its National Guard and State Defense Force members on state orders the protections federal law gives on federal orders: a six percent interest cap, no foreclosure or…
An honorably discharged Utah-resident veteran with any current service-connected disability rating gets free day-use admission to state parks, and the pass covers up to seven…
Gate: Any current service-connected rating, with no percentage floor
Four state homes in Salt Lake City, Ogden, Payson and Ivins, each at least 80 beds, run day to day by a contracted private provider.
Gate: A 70 percent or higher service-connected rating means no cost at all
An employer who hires a veteran discharged within the last two years who is on or has exhausted unemployment benefits can claim $200 a month in year one and $400 a month in year…
Two separate credits. A surviving spouse or dependent child gets a credit equal to the tax rate times their Survivor Benefit Plan payments, but only where the death was on active…
A recognised veterans remains organization may inventory the unclaimed cremated remains held at any Utah funeral establishment, and the establishment must release a veteran’s or…
A $2,500 grant toward buying a first home in Utah, for a veteran who separated within the last five years or anyone currently serving in the active, reserve or Guard components.
The exemption is your disability percentage multiplied by an indexed limit, which the Tax Commission currently publishes as $535,459 of taxable value.
Gate: A 10 percent rating is the floor, and the exemption scales from there; Individual unemployability counts as 100 percent
A state-run database that matches veterans and their dependent spouses and children who need specific goods, services or labour with donors willing to provide them free.
One state cemetery, at Bluffdale just north of Camp Williams. There is no fee for a veteran’s burial.
A Utah private employer may prefer veterans, and if it does the policy must be in writing, applied uniformly to hiring, promotion and retention including during a layoff, and…
Five percent of the total possible score for a veteran or a currently serving service member, ten percent for one with a disability of any percentage or a Purple Heart, and the…
Gate: Any percentage of service-connected disability gets the full 10 points
A veteran charged with a crime who has a mental health condition, a traumatic brain injury or a substance use disorder may be screened into a veterans treatment court, with…
A grant for a veteran in the final year of a bachelor’s degree who has run out of federal education benefits.
Utah defines veteran once for the entire code: 180 days of service, active duty or reserve drilling time, or any service-related injury, with an honorable or general discharge.
Gate: One Utah benefit imposes a rating floor that its statute does not
79 federal benefits apply here as well and are left off this page; the place page lists them.