VetTOC · Veteran benefits reference
VetTOC has not written a veterans service office for this place yet.
Find a VA-accredited representative: www.va.gov/get-help-from-accredited-representative/find-rep
The Monongalia County Assessor takes homestead applications July 1 to December 1, once, with a printable form whose military-retirement checkbox and disability certification cite…
Gate: Age 65 or older, or certified permanently and totally disabled
Monongalia County has no county veterans office and no Morgantown state office; the Clarksburg benefit office carries the claims work, and the county clerk records DD-214s free…
Burial at no cost to the veteran and a flat $780 for a spouse or eligible child. The veteran's service is what creates eligibility, so a spouse may be buried first.
Not a veterans benefit, but it carries one veteran-specific rule: service abroad does not break the two-year residency test. The $20,000 has not moved since 1990.
Gate: Certified permanently and totally disabled, or age 65
West Virginia does not broadly exempt active duty pay. There is a one-time deduction in the year you separate, and an older exemption limited to two named call-ups.
West Virginia Code 61-7-4(q) exempts an honorably discharged veteran of the armed forces, reserves or National Guard from the $50 fee and costs of a resident licence to carry a…
A refundable income tax credit for the full property tax paid on your home, not a property tax exemption.
Gate: Service-connected rating of 90% or more; Individual unemployability qualifies on its own
No license at all, not a discount, for a resident veteran at 100% permanent and total.
Gate: A pension based on total permanent service-connected disability; Permanent and total, not merely a high rating
Park at any metered space in any West Virginia municipality without paying. The plate designation is the credential, and without it the benefit does not exist.
A real diploma for a living veteran who left school to serve, issued by the county board of the veteran's choice between where they live and where they would have graduated.
Plates for disabled veterans, Purple Heart, Medal of Honor, the service crosses, and Pearl Harbor survivors, exempt from all registration fees.
Gate: The disabled veteran plate follows the 100% standard in practice
Every public institution must charge the in-state rate to a GI Bill user living in West Virginia, however long ago the discharge.
Eight semesters of undergraduate tuition and mandatory fees waived.
A credit paid to the employer, not to you, and for a disabled veteran it scales with the rating: your percentage times a $5,000 wage base. Get the voucher before you are hired.
Gate: Any compensable rating carries a credit, and it scales
All military retired pay is exempt from West Virginia income tax with no cap and no age test, and survivor annuities come out with it.
Fully exempt for every taxpayer from the 2026 tax year, the end of a three-year phase-in that only ever applied to higher incomes.
Ten percent off lodge rooms, cabins, and campsites year-round for any veteran or serving member, with no rating and no residency requirement.
A 120-bed skilled nursing facility at Clarksburg connected by breezeway to the VA medical center, with a second facility at Beckley under construction.
Tuition and fees waived at every state institution for the child or spouse of a member killed in the line of duty, with no semester cap in the statute.
One vehicle free of registration fees at 100% permanent and total, for a former POW, or for a Medal of Honor recipient. A VA vehicle grant lifts the one-vehicle limit.
Gate: 100% total and permanent for the one-vehicle exemption
An honorably discharged veteran can have the designation added, and gets a free replacement license if that is the only reason for it.
Available to any active, retired, or honorably discharged member for a $10 initial fee on top of the regular registration, and to the next of kin of a member killed in combat.
A 125-bed residential home, not a nursing facility. Long-term residents pay half their monthly income; veterans facing homelessness get 60 days free.
Five or ten points on a passing exam score, and the categories are alternatives rather than additive.
The statute behind this program was repealed effective June 29, 2025, yet the state agency and the federal benefits library both still advertise it with dollar figures.
79 federal benefits apply here as well and are left off this page; the place page lists them.