VetTOC · Veteran benefits reference
Find a VA-accredited representative: www.va.gov/get-help-from-accredited-representative/find-rep
Winchester’s Personal Exemptions page lists the veterans’ clause without an amount, so this entry gives the statute’s.
Every public institution must have a written policy for evaluating military training for academic credit and a single named point of contact.
malegislature.gov/Laws/GeneralLaws/PartI/TitleII/Chapter15A/Section42
A needs-based cash and medical benefit paid by the city or town where the veteran lives, reimbursed 75 per cent by the commonwealth.
malegislature.gov/Laws/GeneralLaws/PartI/TitleXVII/Chapter115/Section5
Not points. Disabled veterans go at the top of the eligible list, then veterans, then the spouse or single parent of a servicemember killed in action, then everyone else.
Gate: Ten per cent based on wartime service for the top tier
malegislature.gov/Laws/GeneralLaws/PartI/TitleIV/Chapter31/Section26
Every Massachusetts employer with more than 50 full-time employees must post a veterans’ benefits notice and hand it to every employee at hire and once a year.
malegislature.gov/Laws/GeneralLaws/PartI/TitleXVII/Chapter115/Section2E
No registration fee for any vehicle owned by a veteran at 100 per cent or rated individually unemployable, and no fee for that veteran’s driver’s licence either.
Gate: A combined service-connected rating of 100 per cent; Or individually unemployable due to a service-connected disability
malegislature.gov/Laws/GeneralLaws/PartI/TitleXIV/Chapter90/Section33
The entire taxable valuation of the home is exempt for the surviving spouse of a service-connected death or a missing-in-action presumption, and for the surviving parents or…
malegislature.gov/Laws/GeneralLaws/PartI/TitleIX/Chapter59/Section5
A dependent parent who takes chapter 115 benefits gives the town a lien on any real estate interest worth over $1,500.
malegislature.gov/Laws/GeneralLaws/PartI/TitleXVII/Chapter115/Section5A
A town may double the veteran abatements, index them to inflation, extend them to property held in trust, and run a work-off programme worth up to $1,500 a year.
malegislature.gov/Laws/GeneralLaws/PartI/TitleIX/Chapter59/Section5
Military retired pay is deducted from Massachusetts gross income whether or not the retiree contributed, and so are Survivor Benefit Plan annuities.
malegislature.gov/Laws/GeneralLaws/PartI/TitleIX/Chapter62/Section2
One vehicle is free of the annual motor vehicle excise for a veteran at 100 per cent or rated individually unemployable, or with specified losses of limb or sight.
Gate: A combined service-connected rating of 100 per cent; Or individually unemployable due to a service-connected disability
malegislature.gov/Laws/GeneralLaws/PartI/TitleIX/Chapter60A/Section1
The town must bury a veteran who dies without sufficient means, and may not do it in a pauper cemetery.
malegislature.gov/Laws/GeneralLaws/PartI/TitleXVII/Chapter115/Section7
The one Massachusetts education waiver the statute makes mandatory and the commonwealth pays for.
malegislature.gov/Laws/GeneralLaws/PartI/TitleII/Chapter15A/Section19
A veteran rated 100 per cent gets a $1,000 abatement and has to recertify every year. A paraplegic or blind veteran gets the entire domicile exempted and never recertifies.
Gate: A disability rating of one hundred per cent
malegislature.gov/Laws/GeneralLaws/PartI/TitleIX/Chapter59/Section5
Veterans are one of the categories the Board of Higher Education must cover in the state tuition waiver programme, but the statute sets no amount and no eligibility rules.
Chelsea and Holyoke, admitting on the broad chapter 115 definition of veteran but behind the strictest residency bar in this catalog: five continuous years, with the burden of…
malegislature.gov/Laws/GeneralLaws/PartI/TitleXVII/Chapter115A/Section1
A $400 abatement at a ten per cent rating or for a Purple Heart, rising to $750 and $1,250 for specific losses of limb or sight.
Gate: Ten per cent for the base $400 abatement
malegislature.gov/Laws/GeneralLaws/PartI/TitleIX/Chapter59/Section5
The plain VETERAN plate costs an extra $20 a year. The decoration plates, from the Purple Heart to the Medal of Liberty, are free, and a surviving spouse may keep or newly apply…
malegislature.gov/Laws/GeneralLaws/PartI/TitleXIV/Chapter90/Section2
A veteran discharged other than honorably because of who they are can have Massachusetts benefits restored without waiting for the federal record to be corrected.
malegislature.gov/Laws/GeneralLaws/PartI/TitleXVII/Chapter115/Section16
A $2,500 credit per qualified veteran hired, for a small Massachusetts employer certified by the Secretary of Veterans’ Services.
malegislature.gov/Laws/GeneralLaws/PartI/TitleIX/Chapter62/Section6
A $2,500 annual payment on August 1 for a blind or paraplegic veteran, one who lost both legs or is 100 per cent disabled from enemy action or a service-connected accident, and…
Gate: Or loss of both legs, or 100 per cent disability from enemy action or a service-connected accident
malegislature.gov/Laws/GeneralLaws/PartI/TitleXVII/Chapter115/Section6B
Two state cemeteries, at Agawam and Winchendon, operated by the Executive Office of Veterans Services with authority to add more.
malegislature.gov/Laws/GeneralLaws/PartI/TitleXVII/Chapter115/Section9A
A $1,000 bonus for service in the Iraq or Afghanistan area and $500 for six months elsewhere, paid by the State Treasurer out of the treasury without appropriation.
Massachusetts has two general definitions of veteran and they disagree.
Gate: Ten per cent based on wartime service for the civil service top tier
malegislature.gov/Laws/GeneralLaws/PartI/TitleI/Chapter4/Section7
79 federal benefits apply here as well and are left off this page; the place page lists them.