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County Veterans Affairs | Madison County Offices

Provides medical care, food, clothing, rent, fuel, utilities, hospital and funeral expenses to eligible veterans. Applicants must bring DD214 form or discharge papers, marriage certificates and birth certificates of children under 18 years of age at first application. Also provides assistance with Veterans Affairs applications and forms

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Veteran Affairs Services | Dubuque County Offices

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 expense may be available. Can also assists with applications for benefits made available by federal, state or local laws.

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Commission of Veterans Affairs | Scott County Community Services

Offers the Veterans Relief Program, which provides assistance to Scott County veterans with emergency basic needs such as shelter, food, utilities, medical, and burial.

Offers the Veterans Service Program, which provides assistance to all veterans and their dependents in applying for federal benefits and other related matters concerning the federal government. Benefits counseling and applications for pension, compensation, home loans, education, etc. are available.

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Veterans Affairs | Mitchell County Offices

Assists veterans, their spouses, and dependents with applying for a wide range of benefits, including disability compensation, disability pension, widow/survivor benefits, education and vocational benefits, medical benefits, applications to the Iowa Veteran’s Home, and burial benefits such as burial in a national cemetery, headstones and markers, memorial certificates, burial flags, and funeral allowances for eligible deceased veterans and their dependents.

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Veteran Affairs Services | Clinton County Offices

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 Iowa for the past one year and 6 months of that year in Clinton County.

State level services do not require wartime service. Assists in completing applications for the Iowa Veterans Aid Fund, fee exempt fishing and hunting permits, applications to the Iowa Veterans Home, 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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Veterans Affairs Services | Cedar County Offices

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. Can also assists with applications for benefits made available by federal, state or local laws.

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Legal Services | Iowa Legal Aid

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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Veteran Affairs Services | Decatur County Offices

Provides assistance to wartime veterans and their spouses with emergency basic needs such as medical, shelter, food, utilities, burial cost and special needs. Also helps with applying for compensation, pension, retirement benefits and widow's benefits and obtaining military records.

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Veteran Affairs Services | Audubon County Offices

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, including burial benefits.

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Veteran Affairs Services | Iowa County Offices

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. Can also assists with applications for benefits made available by federal, state or local laws.

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Veteran Affairs Services | Buena Vista County Offices

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 Affairs Services | Kankakee County Offices

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, transportation assistance (bus tokens) and food may be available. Can also assists with applications for benefits made available by federal, state or local laws.

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Veterans Assistance Commission | Veterans Assistance Commission - Winnebago County

Provides assistance for:

- Rent, utility, and limited mortgage payments.

- Household/hygiene vouchers.

- Employment referrals/advocacy.

- Community services referrals.

- Military service records retrieval assistance.

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Veteran Affairs | Webster County 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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Veterans Assistance | Veterans Assistance Commission - Sangamon County

Provides services to the local Veterans community in areas of:

-- Free VA claims assistance for all veterans and their survivors

-- Advocacy services

-- Rent payment assistance

-- Utility assistance

-- Food expense assistance

-- Prescription expense assistance

-- Transportation assistance

The VAC offers service officers accredited by the VA to prepare, present, and prosecute claims for VA Disability and Pension benefits on behalf of veterans and/ or their families. The VAC is also available to assist with identifying and applying for other benefits or programs offered by the VA such as VA Healthcare.

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Veteran Services | Monona County Offices

Veterans services include veterans benefits and aid in the case of a hardship.

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Veteran Services | Goodwill of Central Illinois

Provides training, support services, and job referral opportunities with employers in Central Illinois for U.S. Military veterans. Can also assist with veterans benefits through a V.A. Accredited Claims Agent who is available by appointment.

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Veteran Affairs Services | Benton County Offices

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 utilities may be available. Can also assists with applications for benefits made available by federal, state or local laws.

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Veteran Affairs Services | Muscatine County Offices

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 Iowa for the past one year and 6 months of that year in Muscatine County.

State level services do not require wartime service. Assist in completing applications for the Iowa Veterans Aid Fund, fee exempt fishing and hunting permits, applications to the Iowa Veterans Home, 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 Services | Harrison County Offices

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

State level services do not require wartime service:
Completes applications for the Iowa Veterans Aid Fund
Fee exempt fishing and hunting permits if eligible
Applications to the Iowa Veterans Homes
Waivers of tuition

Federal level services - provides and/or completes Veteran Administration forms for claims relating but not limited to:
Service connected compensation
Disability pension
Widow's pension
Vocational rehab
Burial allowance
Grave Markers/headstones
Educational benefits G.I. Bill Chapter 30
Certificate 9 eligibility for VA home loan
Insurance
Character of service upgrades

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Veterans Affairs Services | Clarke County Offices

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. Can also assists with applications for benefits made available by federal, state or local laws.

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Veteran Services | Iowa Department of Veterans Affairs

Provides assistance to Veteran's with utilities, rent, mortgage interest, funeral, burial expenses, and grave markers. Assists Veteran's applying for compensation and pension programs, and with pension forms, information and claims assistance for all VA benefits.

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