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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 Burial Benefits
County Government Departments/Offices
Veteran Compensation and Pension Benefits
Veteran Benefits Assistance
Helps Veterans get enrolled in health care at the VA Hospital in Iowa City.

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

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.

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Veteran Burial Benefits
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 and utility payments, 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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Veteran Benefits Assistance
Burial/Cremation Expense Assistance
County Government Departments/Offices
Veteran Burial Benefits
Veteran Compensation and Pension Benefits
Utility Service Payment Assistance
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 or utilities and food may be available. Can also assists with applications for benefits made available by federal, state or local laws.

Categories

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

Assists low-income veterans and their families in obtaining and maintaining permanent stable housing. Assists through strengths-based goal planning to address current gaps in the Veteran's ability to secure or maintain stable and sustainable permanent housing. Services can include: Case management; Peer mentoring/advocacy from fellow Veterans; Linkage to VA and other community resources; Training in life skills, coping skills, and housing preparation; Linkage to specialists in budgeting, credit counseling, legal services, job preparation, and employment search; Temporary financial assistance to address housing barriers; Landlord/ tenant mediation

Offers the following benefits for those veterans who are eligible:

-County Veterans Aid
-A Bronze Grave Flag Holder
-Registration of DD214s
-Homestead Exemption
-Grave Registration
-Benefits Counseling and Advocacy
-Assistance with the application for State and Federal VA benefits.

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Veteran/Military Health Insurance
Veteran Benefits Assistance
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. Can also assists with applications for benefits made available by federal, state or local laws, including burial benefits.

Categories

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

Assistance to veterans and their families in obtaining forms for claims to State and Federal Agencies, such as:
- U.S. and Illinois Department of Veteran Affairs
- Social Security Administration
- Department of Human Services
- Others to secure the benefits and services to which they are entitled
- Helps veterans obtain DD214
- Military medical records
- Other service-related documents

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

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.

Categories

Veteran Compensation and Pension Benefits
Veteran Burial Benefits
Veteran Benefits Assistance
Non-Emergency Medical Transportation
Provides assistance to veterans with utilities, rent, mortgage interest, funeral, burial expenses, and grave markers; assists Veterans apply for compensation and pension programs.

Categories

Utility Service Payment Assistance
County Government Departments/Offices
Rent Payment Assistance
Veteran Benefits Assistance
Veteran Burial Benefits
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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Advance Medical Directives
Adoption Legal Services
Patient Rights Assistance
Landlord/Tenant Assistance
Veteran Benefits Assistance
General Legal Aid
Debt Management
Legal Representation
Consumer Law
Will Preparation Assistance
Child Support Assistance/Enforcement
Welfare Rights Assistance
Domestic/Family Violence Legal Services
Child Custody/Visitation Assistance
Discrimination Assistance
Human Trafficking Legal Assistance
Labor and Employment Law
Protection and Advocacy for Individuals With Disabilities
Certificates/Forms Assistance
Protective/Restraining Orders
School System Advocacy
Legal Information Services
Tax Information
Assists Ringgold County honorably discharged veterans, their wives, widows, and dependent children. Services include help 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.

Categories

Rent Payment Assistance
Veteran Burial Benefits
Burial/Cremation Expense Assistance
Veteran Benefits Assistance
Food Vouchers
Utility Service Payment Assistance

Assists veterans and their families with information and access to federal, state and local veterans benefits.

Transportation program provides rides for veterans to US Department of Veterans Affairs medical facilities.

Limited financial assistance to veterans with basic human needs.

Categories

Veteran Burial Benefits
Non-Emergency Medical Transportation
Specialized Information and Referral
Veteran Benefits Assistance
Military Records
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.

Categories

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

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 Shelby 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; 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.

Categories

Veteran Burial Benefits
Home Purchase/Mortgage Refinance Loans
Veteran Compensation and Pension Benefits
Veteran Benefits Assistance
Assist veterans and their families with information and access to federal, state and local veterans benefits.

Categories

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

Categories

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

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.

Can also provide transportation for eligible veterans to the Veterans Administration (VA) for medical appointments.

Categories

Veteran Burial Benefits
Non-Emergency Medical Transportation
Veteran Benefits Assistance
Veteran Compensation and Pension Benefits
Provides assistance to veterans with utilities, rent, mortgage interest, funeral, burial expenses, and grave markers. Assists Veterans applying for compensation and pension programs.

Categories

Veteran Benefits Assistance
County Government Departments/Offices
Veteran Burial 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.

Categories

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

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.

Categories

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