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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 Benefits Assistance
Military Records
Veteran Burial Benefits
Veteran Compensation and Pension Benefits
Veteran Education Benefits

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

Veteran service office.

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

Provides permanent supportive housing to male veterans. Provides and coordinates all services including treatment for post-traumatic stress syndrome, substance abuse, stress, anxiety and psychological counseling. Can also help with budgeting, clothing, legal assistance, food, transportation, entitlement benefits, medical care, job training, education, and job placement services.

Provides assistance to veterans with utilities, rent, mortgage interest, funeral, burial expenses, and grave markers. Assists Veterans applying for compensation and pension programs.

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Veteran Burial Benefits
County Government Departments/Offices
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, 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
Burial/Cremation Expense Assistance
Food Vouchers
Veteran Compensation and Pension Benefits
Rent Payment Assistance
Utility Service Payment Assistance
Veteran Benefits 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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Adoption Legal Services
Discrimination Assistance
Landlord/Tenant Assistance
Labor and Employment Law
School System Advocacy
Child Custody/Visitation Assistance
Protective/Restraining Orders
Protection and Advocacy for Individuals With Disabilities
General Legal Aid
Patient Rights Assistance
Tax Information
Legal Information Services
Certificates/Forms Assistance
Debt Management
Veteran Benefits Assistance
Consumer Law
Human Trafficking Legal Assistance
Will Preparation Assistance
Legal Representation
Child Support Assistance/Enforcement
Advance Medical Directives
Domestic/Family Violence Legal Services
Welfare Rights Assistance
Provides assistance to veterans with utilities, rent, burial expenses, and grave markers. Can also assist Veterans with applying for compensation and pension programs.

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Utility Service Payment Assistance
Veteran Benefits Assistance
County Government Departments/Offices
Rent Payment Assistance
Veteran Burial Benefits

Provides assistance in determining eligibility and filing for veteran benefits, including burial benefits. These services include completion of forms, referrals, follow-up services, and other assistance. Temporary financial assistance may be available for rent or mortgage, utilities/propane, gas, and food.

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Transportation Expense Assistance
Food Vouchers
Veteran Burial Benefits
Veteran Benefits Assistance
Mortgage Payment Assistance
Rent Payment 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. VA benefits and services include Disability benefits, education and training services, home loans, burial benefits, dependents' and survivors' benefits, life insurance, and healthcare assistance.

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Veteran Benefits Assistance
Veteran Burial Benefits
Vocational Rehabilitation
Veteran Compensation and Pension Benefits
Home Purchase/Mortgage Refinance Loans
County Government Departments/Offices

Assists 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.

Categories

Veteran Compensation and Pension Benefits
Veteran Burial Benefits
Veteran Benefits Assistance

Provides assistance to veterans and their families with utilities, rent, mortgage interest, funeral, burial expenses, grave markers, and medical expenses; assists veterans in applying for compensation and pension programs.

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

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 and must be a resident in Nebraska for the past one year and 6 months of that year in Scotts Bluff or Banner County.

State level services do not require wartime service and include the following: completes applications for the Nebraska Veterans Aid Fund, fee exempt fishing and hunting permits, applications to the Nebraska Veterans Homes, and 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, 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 Burial Benefits
Veteran/Military Health Insurance
Veteran Benefits Assistance

Provides financial assistance, assist stranded motorists, donates to needy veterans, provides community services and fellowship, and provides scholarships for members. Call for more information and understanding of benefits.

Eligibility dates-

WW1- 4/6/17-11/11/18

WW2 - 12/7/41-12/31/46

Korean - 6/25/50-1/31/55

Vietnam - 2/28/61-5/7/75

Lebanon and Granada - 8/24/82-7/31/84

Panama12/20/89 -1/31/90

Persian Gulf- 8/22/90 - continuing.

Assists 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.

Provides transportation for eligible veterans to the Veterans Administration (VA) for medical appointments.

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Non-Emergency Medical Transportation
Veteran Burial Benefits
Veteran Benefits Assistance
Veteran Compensation and Pension 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.

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Veteran Burial Benefits
Utility Service Payment Assistance
Veteran Benefits Assistance
County Government Departments/Offices
Rent Payment Assistance
Assists Veterans and their dependents residing in Pocahontas County in obtaining county, state and federal benefits to which they may be entitled.

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

Categories

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

Assists 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.

Also serves as an agency of last resort for temporary financial assistance for rent, utilities (electric/heating fuel), prescription drugs, and other basic needs.

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

Categories

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

Prepares, presents, and prosecutes claims for VA Disability and Pension benefits on behalf of veterans and/or their families. This program also assists with identifying and applying for other benefits or programs offered by the VA such as VA Healthcare.

Identifies programs/ services/ benefits the veteran and/or the veteran's family can use, and are eligible for, that are not administered by the VA.