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Guam

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Guam benefits

Beneficiary Travel from Guam

Fifty-nine percent of Guam’s VA-enrolled veterans did not qualify for travel reimbursement in fiscal 2022, the worst rate in the Pacific, and a round trip to Hawaii cost more…

Gate: Thirty percent or more qualifies for travel to any VA care

www.gao.gov/products/gao-24-106364

Guam Annual Vehicle Registration Fee Waiver

The annual vehicle licence and registration fee is waived for a veteran at one hundred percent or individually unemployable, for any registered World War II, Korean War or…

Gate: One hundred percent or unemployable is one route

col.guamcourts.gov/sites/default/files/16gc007_0.pdf

Guam Derived Veterans Benefits for a Spouse, Surviving Spouse or Legal Guardian

Guam hands the driver license fee waiver, the vehicle registration fee waiver and the ten-point hiring preference to a veteran’s spouse, legal guardian or surviving spouse.

Gate: Rated one hundred percent disabled; Individually unemployable qualifies on its own

col.guamcourts.gov/sites/default/files/04gc004.pdf

Guam Disabled Veteran Property Tax Exemption

Total exemption from Guam real property tax on the residence of a veteran rated one hundred percent disabled or individually unemployable, and of a surviving spouse or legal…

Gate: Rated one hundred percent disabled; Individually unemployable qualifies on its own

col.guamcourts.gov/sites/default/files/11gc024_Q.pdf

Guam Gold Star License Plates

Gold Star plates issued free to parents, including step, adoptive and foster parents who stood in loco parentis, to widows and widowers, and since September 1, 2026 to siblings…

col.guamcourts.gov/sites/default/files/16gc007_0.pdf

Guam Government Veterans Preference

Five points for a veteran and ten for a veteran disabled in service, added to a passing competitive examination score on initial employment, with a statutory tiebreaker that…

Gate: Ten points needs a service-connected disability, not a percentage

col.guamcourts.gov/sites/default/files/04gc004.pdf

Guam Housing Corporation Direct Loans to Veterans

A direct loan authority that survives in the code with a $16,000 ceiling set decades ago and an era limit that stops at Vietnam. It is on the books and it is not a housing plan.

col.guamcourts.gov/sites/default/files/12gc004.pdf

Guam Service-Disabled Veteran Owned Business Procurement Preference

A mandatory award, not a bid credit. If a service-disabled veteran owned business offers the supply or service on time at no more than 105 percent of the lowest price, the…

Gate: A service-connected disability with a VA award letter, no percentage stated

col.guamcourts.gov/sites/default/files/05gc005.pdf

Guam Veterans Bill of Rights, the SERVE Act

Free academic credit for military training at the University of Guam and Guam Community College, with no limit and no fee, plus registration protections for veterans called to…

col.guamcourts.gov/sites/default/files/10gc067_0.pdf

Guam Veterans Bonuses for Second World War Service

Three $2,500 bonuses still stand in the code for the Guam Combat Patrol, the Wake Island workers and the civilian scouts, payable to the person or their survivors, with no…

col.guamcourts.gov/sites/default/files/10gc068.pdf

Guam Veterans Higher Education Benefits Act

A tuition exemption at the University of Guam and Guam Community College: ninety undergraduate credit hours for life, thirty graduate, transferable to a spouse or child, last…

col.guamcourts.gov/sites/default/files/17gc056_Q_0.pdf

Veteran Status as a Protected Class in Guam Employment

Honorably discharged veteran and military status is a protected class under the Guam Employment Relations Act, covering employers, employment agencies, labour organizations, job…

col.guamcourts.gov/sites/default/files/22gc005.pdf

79 federal benefits apply here as well and are left off this page; the place page lists them.