Rhode Island Academic Credit and Priority Registration for Combat Veterans
State institutions must award academic credit for military training or service where academically appropriate, and must let combat veterans register first for all classes, ranked…
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Rhode Island Burial at Public Expense
A city or town pays the funeral of a wartime veteran who dies without means, but the statutory ceiling is $55 and the claim must be made within 60 days.
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Rhode Island Civil Service Veterans Preference
Five points added to a passing examination score for a veteran and ten for a disabled veteran, for entrance into the classified service only and never for promotion.
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Rhode Island Counts Merchant Mariners as Veterans
Rhode Island extends state veterans benefits to American merchant marine members who were legal residents at enlistment with six months of service, and names the merchant marine…
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Rhode Island Dependents’ Education Fund
Tuition and books for a child or surviving spouse of a veteran who died of a service-connected disability, or died of any cause while one was in existence, and for families of…
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Rhode Island Disabled Veteran Registration, License Fee Exemption and Plate
No annual registration fee and no driver license fee, plus a Disabled Veteran plate, on four alternative gates: amputation, loss of use of a limb, a VA vehicle grant, or a 100…
Gate: Individual unemployability, as an express alternative; A combined service-connected rating of 100 percent
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Rhode Island Family Military Leave
Up to 30 days of unpaid leave for the spouse or parent of a person called to service for more than 30 days, at employers with more than 50 staff, and 15 days at employers with 15…
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Rhode Island Hunting and Fishing Licenses for Veterans and Service Members
A free continuing license for a 100 percent disabled veteran, at the licensing authority’s discretion, once applied for and never renewed.
Gate: A 100 percent disabled veteran
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Rhode Island In-State Tuition for Service Members, Veterans and Families
Resident tuition rates without any waiting period for active duty members with more than 30 days of service, their spouses and dependents, any veteran eligible for the GI Bill,…
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Rhode Island Military Funeral Honors
The adjutant general furnishes a firing squad on the family’s request for a wartime veteran’s funeral, and where possible a bugler to play Taps live.
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Rhode Island Military Service Pension Income Exemption
Military service pension income is subtracted from Rhode Island taxable income in full, with no income cap, no age test and no dollar ceiling, for tax years beginning January 1,…
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Rhode Island National Guard Tuition Waiver
Five courses a semester waived at any Rhode Island state college or university for a Guard member in good standing, through a master’s degree.
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Rhode Island Prisoner of War Property Tax Exemption
A further $15,000 exemption, by town ordinance, for a veteran VA has classified as a prisoner of war and for the unmarried widow or widower. Westerly runs to $68,000.
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Rhode Island Property Tax Exemption for a Surviving Spouse of a Veteran
The veterans exemption runs in terms to the unmarried widow or widower, and Rhode Island defines unmarried generously: a remarriage that was void, ended in death, or was annulled…
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Rhode Island Reemployment Rights and Seniority Credit for Time Served
A former employer must reinstate a veteran who asks within 40 days of discharge, on penalty of a fine, and a veteran reemployed within a year receives additional seniority equal…
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Rhode Island Specially Adapted Housing Property Tax Exemption
Two different exemptions for a VA specially adapted housing grant. One gives $10,000 of value.
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Rhode Island Totally Disabled Veteran Property Tax Exemption
A further $10,000 exemption for a veteran VA-determined totally disabled through a service-connected disability, but only where the city or town has passed an ordinance.
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Rhode Island Tuition Waiver for Disabled Veterans
Free tuition at any public institution of higher education in Rhode Island for a permanent resident veteran rated between 10 and 100 percent disabled.
Gate: A VA-rated disability of 10 percent to 100 percent
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Rhode Island Veteran Designation on a License, and the Retail Discount Right
A "veteran" marking on a Rhode Island license or ID, which the statute gives the same validity as a military identification card for preferential treatment in retail…
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Rhode Island Veterans Memorial Cemetery
Burial at Exeter at no cost to the veteran, with two years of service enough on its own and six years in the Guard or Reserve enough for a member and spouse.
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Rhode Island Veterans Property Tax Exemption
A statutory $1,000 exemption, and a further $1,000 for a totally disabled veteran, which roughly three dozen cities and towns replace with their own figure, from a $182.90 tax…
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Rhode Island Veterans Transitional Supportive Program for Homeless Veterans
Domiciliary care for homeless veterans at the Bristol home at a maintenance fee of 10 percent of monthly gross income instead of the usual 80 percent of net, with extended beds…
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Rhode Island Veterans’ Assistance Fund
State assistance for worthy dependent veterans and for widows, widowers and dependent children of deceased veterans, plus free preparation of VA claims.
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Rhode Island Veterans’ Home
Nursing and assisted living at Bristol for a wartime or campaign veteran with 90 days of service who entered from Rhode Island or has lived there two years.
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