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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 and 6 months of that year in Washington County.

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 Burial Benefits
Veteran/Military Health Insurance
Veteran Compensation and Pension 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 utility payments, burial 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/Military Health Insurance
Prescription Medication Services
Veteran Compensation and Pension Benefits
Burial/Cremation Expense Assistance
Veteran Burial Benefits
Utility Service Payment Assistance
Rent Payment Assistance
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 utilities 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
Veteran Compensation and Pension Benefits
Veteran Burial Benefits
Utility Service Payment Assistance
Veteran Benefits Assistance
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
Veterans services include veterans benefits and aid in the case of a hardship.

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Veteran Burial Benefits
Veteran Benefits Assistance
Veteran/Military Health Insurance

Provides financial and support services to Veteran Families who are homeless or imminently at-risk of being homeless.

Aims to stabilize these families in housing, while providing on-going support as needed to sustain independent living.

Services may include, rental and utility deposits, limited rental and utility assistance, limited moving costs and emergency supplies, case management services, transportation assistance, information and referrals to community resources, assistance in obtaining VA benefits, assistance in obtaining and securing other public benefits, and assistance in securing permanent housing.

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Rental Deposit Assistance
Temporary Financial Assistance
Veteran Benefits Assistance
Comprehensive Information and Referral
Rent Payment Assistance
Utility Service Payment Assistance

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 Employment Programs
Veteran Benefits Assistance
The Veterans Service Office will assist veterans and their families in obtaining the local, state, and federal benefits that they are entitled to receive. This may include assistance in obtaining military records, compensation and pension benefits, education and retraining grants, health insurance, and veteran burial benefits.

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Military Records
Veteran Burial Benefits
Veteran Benefits Assistance
Veteran/Military Health Insurance
Veteran Compensation and Pension Benefits
Veteran Education Benefits
The Veterans Service Office will assist veterans and their families in obtaining the local, state, and federal benefits that they are entitled to receive. This may include assistance in obtaining military records, compensation and pension benefits, education and retraining grants, health insurance, and veteran burial benefits.

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

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, medical/dental assistance, prescription medications, burial assistance, 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
Burial/Cremation Expense Assistance
Rent Payment Assistance
Prescription Medication Services
Veteran Compensation and Pension Benefits
Home Purchase/Mortgage Refinance Loans
Medical Expense Assistance
Veteran Benefits Assistance
Food Vouchers
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, 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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Utility Service Payment Assistance
County Government Departments/Offices
Burial/Cremation Expense Assistance
Rent Payment Assistance
Veteran Burial Benefits
Veteran Compensation and Pension 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 burial expense assistance may be available. Can also assists with applications for benefits made available by federal, state or local laws.

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Veteran Compensation and Pension Benefits
Veteran Burial Benefits
Veteran Benefits Assistance
Utility Service Payment Assistance
Rent Payment Assistance

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 of Mills County for the past one year.

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 Homes; and 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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Home Purchase/Mortgage Refinance Loans
Veteran Benefits Assistance
Veteran Burial Benefits
Veteran/Military Health Insurance
Veteran Compensation and Pension Benefits
Veteran service office.

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

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Veteran Benefits Assistance
Veteran/Military Health Insurance
Veteran Burial Benefits
Veteran Compensation and Pension 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 expense may be available. Can also assists with applications for benefits made available by federal, state or local laws.

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

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.

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Veteran Benefits Assistance
Veteran/Military Health Insurance
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 or utility payments, burial expenses, dental/medical bill expenses, medically necessary prescriptions, and food 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
Veteran Benefits Assistance
Utility Service Payment Assistance
Burial/Cremation Expense Assistance
Veteran Burial Benefits
Food Vouchers
Veteran Compensation and Pension Benefits
Medical Expense Assistance
Assists legally resident, indigent, honorably discharged veterans, their wives, widows, and dependent children. Administer emergency general relief for veterans in need.

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Medical Expense Assistance
Temporary Financial Assistance
Veteran Burial Benefits
Veteran Benefits Assistance
Utility Service Payment Assistance
Food Vouchers
Veteran Compensation and Pension Benefits
Rent 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, 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.

Categories

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

Offer benefits for veterans and their families. Providing donations, community services, and scholarships for members.

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.

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Veteran Benefits Assistance
Veteran Burial Benefits
County Government Departments/Offices
Utility Service Payment Assistance
Rent Payment Assistance
Assists veterans, their widows, widowers, wives, and minor children with filling out forms to enroll in VA Healthcare system as well as burial benefits, education, home loan assistance, VA pensions, and Veterans Affairs Medical Van Available.

If a veteran needs a ride to a medical appointment, they may contact the Veterans Affairs Director at 641-373-0349 to arrange transportation with the VA Medical Van.

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Rent Payment Assistance
Veteran Burial Benefits
Veteran Benefits Assistance
Burial/Cremation Expense Assistance
Food Vouchers
Medical Expense Assistance
Veteran Compensation and Pension Benefits
Utility Service Payment Assistance
Assists Polk County honorably discharged veterans, their wives, widows, and dependent children. Financial assistance for basic necessities such as rent or house payments, utilities and food. Assistance may also be provided for glasses and funeral expenses

APPLICATIONS/ADMISSIONS into Iowa Veterans Home in Marshalltown for disabled veterans and/or spouse.

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