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Assists veterans with applying for benefits including disability compensation, disability pension, widow/survivor benefits, education/vocational benefits, medical benefits, and applications to the Iowa Veteran's Home.

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Veteran Burial Benefits
County Government Departments/Offices
Veteran Compensation and Pension Benefits
Veteran Benefits Assistance
Veteran services office.

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Veteran Benefits Assistance
Veteran/Military Health Insurance
Veteran Compensation and Pension Benefits
Veteran Burial Benefits
Veteran service office.

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Veteran Compensation and Pension Benefits
Veteran/Military Health Insurance
Veteran Burial Benefits
Veteran Benefits Assistance
Provides assistance to veterans with utilities, rent, mortgage interest, funeral, burial expenses, and grave markers; assists Veterans apply for compensation and pension programs.

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Food Vouchers
Veteran Benefits Assistance
Rent Payment Assistance
Utility Service Payment Assistance
Medical Expense Assistance
County Government Departments/Offices
Veteran Burial Benefits
Benefits information on county, state, and federal level benefits.

Claim filing assistance for veterans and their families, including applications to Veterans Home in Marshalltown and applications for lifetime hunting and fishing licenses for service connected disabled vets (small fee).

Funeral assistance.

Application assistance for VA medical care.

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Veteran Burial Benefits
Veteran Compensation and Pension Benefits
Veteran/Military Health Insurance
Veteran Benefits Assistance
Home Purchase/Mortgage Refinance Loans
Free legal assistance with civil legal problems involving basic necessities for low-income individuals in all 99 Iowa counties. Assistance ranges from providing counsel and advice to representation before various agencies and courts.

Community legal education presentations offered, as well as over 20 printed booklets on various legal topics; a wide variety of legal education materials are also available on the website.

Legal services are provided in all civil legal areas, including:
Consumer/Finance - debt collection, repossession, garnishment, contracts/warranties, predatory lending, and public utilities (including utility disconnection or shut off notices).

Education - expulsion/suspension, special education, learning disabilities, school fees, access, vocational education, and student financial aid.

Employment - employment discrimination, wage claims, earned income tax credit, and taxes.

Family - adoption, custody, visitation, guardianship, domestic abuse, human trafficking and exploitation, family violence (child abuse, elder abuse, battered women/men), including assistance with restraining orders, and child support.

Health - Medicaid, Medicare, government children's health insurance programs, long term health care facilities, nursing homes, supplemental medical insurance, and hospital care.

Housing - federally subsidized housing, homeownership, real property, landlord/tenant, public housing, mobile homes, housing discrimination, foreclosures, forfeitures, and mortgage predatory lending practices.

Benefit Programs - ADFC/FIP, Social Security, food stamps, Social Security Disability (SSD), Supplemental Security Income (SSI), unemployment compensation, veterans benefits, FEMA, government benefits, and utility assistance applications.

Individual Rights - mental health, disability rights, civil rights, human trafficking, AIDS/HIV issues, assistive devices, and institutional confinement.

End of Life Planning - wills, living wills, advance directives, and power of attorney.

Drivers License.

Advocacy and legal assistance for people with disabilities, people with Alzheimer's disease, people with brain injury, people with mental illness, children, migrants, and veterans.

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General Legal Aid
Protective/Restraining Orders
Will Preparation Assistance
Legal Information Services
Veteran Benefits Assistance
Child Custody/Visitation Assistance
Consumer Law
Landlord/Tenant Assistance
Labor and Employment Law
Child Support Assistance/Enforcement
Debt Management
Advance Medical Directives
Tax Information
Legal Representation
Human Trafficking Legal Assistance
Patient Rights Assistance
Discrimination Assistance
Adoption Legal Services
School System Advocacy
Protection and Advocacy for Individuals With Disabilities
Welfare Rights Assistance
Certificates/Forms Assistance
Domestic/Family Violence Legal Services

County level services provide direct emergency economic aid for vital necessities to veterans, their widow, and dependents, according to their needs. Personal visits for assistance and claims to housebound veterans or dependents. Must have an honorable or under honorable conditions discharge from active duty or wartime service. Must be a resident in Nebraska for the past one year.

State level services do not require wartime service. Assist in completing applications for the Nebraska Veterans Aid Fund; fee exempt fishing and hunting permits; applications to the Nebraska Veterans Homes; waivers of tuition.

Federal level services provide and/or complete Veteran Administration forms for claims relating but not limited to service connected compensation, disability pension, widow's pension, burial allowance, grave markers/headstones, educational benefits, home loans, insurance, indebtedness, and character of service upgrades.

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Veteran Compensation and Pension Benefits
Veteran Benefits Assistance
Veteran/Military Health Insurance
Veteran Burial Benefits

Provides assistance to wartime veterans and spouses with emergency basic needs (medical, shelter, food, utilities, burial cost and special needs). Also helps with applying for compensation, pension, widow's benefits, obtaining military records, Federal, State and County Benefits they may qualify for.

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Rent Payment Assistance
Medical Expense Assistance
Utility Service Payment Assistance
Food Vouchers
Veteran Benefits Assistance
Veteran Compensation and Pension Benefits
Veteran Burial Benefits

Advises and aids veterans and their dependents in applying for federal benefits through compensation or pension claims. Emergency financial assistance for basic necessities such as rent, mortgage interests payments, utilities, and burial expenses may be available. Can also assists with applications for benefits made available by federal, state or local laws.

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Burial/Cremation Expense Assistance
Veteran Compensation and Pension Benefits
Rent Payment Assistance
Utility Service Payment Assistance
Veteran Benefits Assistance
Veteran Burial Benefits
Provides assistance to veterans and their families who file claims with the Veteran's Administration (VA).

Family support network channels requests for any type of assistance including financial to Legion Posts throughout the United States. Callers are advised to give their home zip code and a call-back telephone number where they can be reached.

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Military Family Service/Support Centers
Veteran Benefits Assistance

Advises and aids veterans and their dependents in applying for federal benefits through compensation or pension claims. Emergency financial assistance for basic necessities such as rent and utility payments, and burial assistance may be available. Can also assists with applications for benefits made available by federal, state or local laws.

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Rent Payment Assistance
Burial/Cremation Expense Assistance
Veteran Compensation and Pension Benefits
Veteran Burial Benefits
Veteran Benefits Assistance
Utility Service Payment Assistance

Provides assistance to all eligible Veterans discharged from active military service under honorable conditions and/or their family members in applying for federal benefits and other Veteran's aid. Services include support with emergency funding when available, food vouchers for purchasing groceries, transportation expense assistance for fuel expense and utility service payment assistance to prevent or address utility shutoffs. Additional services include access to low-cost or hard-to-obtain prescription medications, general relief for indigent individuals, and guidance on Veteran burial benefits, including burial in national cemeteries, headstones, markers, and burial flags.

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Utility Service Payment Assistance
General Relief
Rent Payment Assistance
Prescription Medication Services
Food Vouchers
Veteran Burial Benefits
Veteran Benefits Assistance
Transportation Expense Assistance
Veteran service office.

Advises and aids veterans and their dependents in applying for federal benefits through compensation or pension claims. Can also assists with applications for benefits made available by federal, state or local laws.

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Veteran Benefits Assistance
Veteran Burial Benefits
Veteran Compensation and Pension Benefits
County Government Departments/Offices
Offers assistance for a wide range of benefits to veterans, service members, and their families, including Federal, State, and County benefits.

County benefits include rent, utilities, transportation for medical care, medications, and burial expenses.

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Utility Service Payment Assistance
Veteran Benefits Assistance
Veteran Burial Benefits
Non-Emergency Medical Transportation
Rent Payment Assistance
Utility Deposit Assistance
County Government Departments/Offices

Offers support to veterans, military personnel, and their families to address challenges related to deployments and reintegration. This program is staffed by certified veteran peer support specialists. Peer-to-peer mentoring, group support, and therapeutic counseling are available. Veterans and their family members are encouraged to drop in or call with any concern; if the agency does not have a way to assist, we are part of a network that can.

Programs offered Voices of Veterans writing group meets monthly, a support group for Vietnam veterans is held weekly, OIF/OEF veterans meet for food/comradery Wednesdays at 5:30 pm.

Other support meetings are started as the need arises.

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Military Family Support Groups
Veteran Benefits Assistance
Veteran Reintegration Counseling
Veteran Support Groups
Peer to Peer Networking

Advises and aids veterans and their dependents in applying for federal benefits through compensation or pension claims. Emergency financial assistance for basic necessities such as rent, mortgage interests payments, utilities, burial expense and food may be available. Can also assists with applications for benefits made available by federal, state or local laws.

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Veteran Burial Benefits
Food Vouchers
County Government Departments/Offices
Rent Payment Assistance
Utility Service Payment Assistance
Veteran Benefits Assistance
Veteran Compensation and Pension Benefits
Offers disability compensation, retirement benefits and pension payments, rehabilitation benefits, guaranteed home loans, information and claims assistance for all VA benefits.

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Veteran Compensation and Pension Benefits
Retirement Benefits
Veteran/Military Health Insurance
Veteran Benefits Assistance
Home Purchase/Mortgage Refinance Loans

Assists veterans and their dependents in applying for and navigating the various federal, state and county programs offered to the veteran and his or her family.

Provides assistance in completing applications for the Nebraska Veterans Aid Fund, fee exempt fishing and hunting permits, applications to the Nebraska Veterans Homes, and waivers of tuition.

Provides and/or completes Veteran Administration forms for claims relating but not limited to service connected compensation, disability pension, widow's pension, burial allowance, grave markers/headstones, educational benefits, home loans, insurance, indebtedness, and character of service upgrades.

Categories

Veteran Benefits Assistance
Veteran Burial Benefits
Veteran Compensation and Pension Benefits
Veteran/Military Health Insurance

Advises and aids veterans and their dependents in applying for federal benefits through compensation or pension claims. Emergency financial assistance for basic necessities such as rent, mortgage interests payments, utilities, and burial expenses may be available. Can also assists with applications for benefits made available by federal, state or local laws.

Categories

Burial/Cremation Expense Assistance
Veteran Burial Benefits
Rent Payment Assistance
Veteran Benefits Assistance
Veteran Compensation and Pension Benefits
Utility Service Payment Assistance

Advises and aids veterans and their dependents in applying for federal benefits through compensation or pension claims. Emergency financial assistance for basic necessities such as rent and utility payments, burial assistance, and food may be available. Can also assists with applications for benefits made available by federal, state or local laws.

Categories

Utility Service Payment Assistance
Veteran Benefits Assistance
Burial/Cremation Expense Assistance
Veteran Compensation and Pension Benefits
Rent Payment Assistance
Veteran Burial Benefits
Food Vouchers
County Government Departments/Offices

Limited funds for medical, rent, food, and utility.

Claim filing assistance for vets and families, assistance with applications to Veterans Home in Marshalltown, and assistance in making applications for lifetime hunting and fishing licenses for service connected disabled vets (small fee).

Funeral assistance.

Information on county, state, and federal level benefits.

Categories

Veteran Benefits Assistance
Veteran Burial Benefits
Veteran Compensation and Pension Benefits
Veteran/Military Health Insurance
Veteran services office.

Categories

Veteran Compensation and Pension Benefits
Veteran Burial Benefits
Veteran Benefits Assistance

Advises and aids veterans and their dependents in applying for federal benefits through compensation or pension claims. Emergency financial assistance for basic necessities such as rent or mortgage payments, utilities and food may be available for Veterans and their dependents. Can also assists with applications for benefits made available by federal, state or local laws.


Provides rides to medical appointments to the VA Hospital in either Knoxville or Des Moines. Call at least 5 days ahead with the date of appointment and the time and location.

***Please note our transportation is not handicap accessible***

Categories

Veteran Benefits Assistance
Utility Service Payment Assistance
Food Vouchers
Non-Emergency Medical Transportation
Veteran Compensation and Pension Benefits
Veteran Burial Benefits
Rent Payment Assistance
Medical Expense Assistance
Retirement Benefits
Provides assistance to veterans with utilities, rent, mortgage interest, funeral, burial expenses, and grave markers. Can also assist Veterans with applying for compensation and pension programs.

Categories

Food Vouchers
Utility Service Payment Assistance
Rent Payment Assistance
Veteran Burial Benefits
County Government Departments/Offices
Non-Emergency Medical Transportation
Veteran Benefits Assistance