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Offers to assist veterans with, Social Security, help with benefits, estimate of benefits, change of address, and help replace Medicare Card.

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

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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Veteran Benefits Assistance
Veteran Burial Benefits
Veteran Compensation and Pension Benefits
Utility Service Payment Assistance
Rent Payment Assistance
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 Deposit Assistance
Veteran Burial Benefits
Veteran Benefits Assistance
Non-Emergency Medical Transportation
County Government Departments/Offices
Utility Service Payment Assistance
Rent Payment Assistance
Provides assistance in obtaining, filing, and completing forms for claims to state and federal agencies to secure the benefits and services to which they are entitled. Will also assist in obtaining military records, medals, awards, and ribbons.

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

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

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

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, Budgeting, Clothing, Legal assistance, Food, Telephones, Transportation, Entitlement benefits, Medical care, Job training, Education, Job placement services.

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Veteran Benefits Assistance
Veteran Homes
Veteran Employment Programs
Homeless Permanent Supportive Housing

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

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/Military Health Insurance
Veteran Compensation and Pension Benefits
Veteran Burial Benefits
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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Veteran Education Benefits
Military Records
Veteran Burial Benefits
Veteran Compensation and Pension Benefits
Veteran/Military Health Insurance
Veteran Benefits 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 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 Benefits Assistance
Home Purchase/Mortgage Refinance Loans
Veteran Burial Benefits
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 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 Benefits Assistance
Transportation Expense Assistance
Prescription Medication Services
Medical Expense Assistance
County Government Departments/Offices
Veteran Burial Benefits
Veteran Compensation and Pension Benefits
Rent Payment Assistance
Utility Service Payment Assistance
Veteran services office.

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

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

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 Burial Benefits
Rent Payment Assistance
Utility Service Payment Assistance
General Relief
Veteran Compensation and Pension 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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Burial/Cremation Expense Assistance
Veteran Burial Benefits
Veteran Benefits Assistance
Rent Payment Assistance
County Government Departments/Offices
Veteran Compensation and Pension Benefits
Utility Service Payment Assistance
Veteran service office.

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

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

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