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Helps veterans navigate funding opportunities for in-home care services, including applying for the Veterans Administration Aid and Attendance benefit.

Aid and Attendance offers veterans and surviving spouses help with daily tasks in the home or assisted living. Veterans must have served at least 90 days during a period of war. If approved for the VA Aid and Attendance benefit, clients may choose any agency to provide the services, they are not obligated to choose this agency.

Service covered include help with daily activities such as dressing, bathing, meal preparation, and housekeeping.

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In Home Meal Preparation
Personal Care
Veteran Benefits Assistance
SSVF is a Veterans Affairs funded program which is delivered through Primary Health Care. This program is focused on helping homeless and unstably-housed Veterans and their families living in Warren, Polk, Dallas, Jasper, Story, and Marshall Counties. Services provided include:

CASE MANAGEMENT services that will assist participants in obtaining VA and other public benefits, including: health care referrals, daily living referrals, personal financial planning, fiduciary and payee referrals, legal services, housing counseling services, employment and training referrals.

TEMPORARY FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE (TFA) which may include rent assistance, moving expenses, security and utility deposits, transportation, and child care. All financial services based on eligibility and available funding.

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Moving Services
Transportation Expense Assistance
Veteran Benefits Assistance
Utility Deposit Assistance
Rent Payment Assistance
Rental Deposit Assistance
Case/Care Management

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.

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.

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

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

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

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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Utility Service Payment Assistance
Temporary Financial Assistance
Rent Payment Assistance
Veteran Benefits Assistance
Comprehensive Information and Referral
Rental Deposit 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, including burial benefits.

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Veteran Benefits Assistance
Veteran Burial Benefits
Veteran Compensation and Pension Benefits

Provides assistance to veterans and their dependents in applying for federal benefits, including compensation or pension claims, and benefits available through federal, state, or local laws. Offers emergency financial assistance for basic necessities such as rent or mortgage payments, utilities, burial benefits, transportation assistance (bus tokens) and food.

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

Provides assistance to discharged veterans and their dependents in applying for federal benefits, including compensation or pension claims, as well as benefits available under federal, state, or local laws. Services may include emergency financial assistance for basic necessities such as rent or mortgage payments, utilities, burial benefits, transportation assistance (bus tokens) and food.

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Rent Payment Assistance
Mortgage Payment Assistance
Food Vouchers
Utility Service Payment Assistance
Veteran Compensation and Pension Benefits
Transportation Expense Assistance
Veteran Burial Benefits
Veteran Benefits Assistance
County Government Departments/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 Nebraska for the past one year and 6 months of that year in Sherman 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 Compensation and Pension Benefits
Veteran Benefits 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 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 Compensation and Pension Benefits
Veteran Benefits Assistance
Veteran Burial 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 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.

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Home Purchase/Mortgage Refinance Loans
Veteran Compensation and Pension Benefits
Veteran Burial Benefits
Veteran Benefits 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, including burial benefits.

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

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

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

Offers support to veterans, military personnel, and their families to address challenges related to deployments and reintegration. This program is staffed by certified veteran peer support specialists. Peer-to-peer mentoring, group support, and therapeutic counseling are available. Veterans and their family members are encouraged to drop in or call with any concern; if the agency does not have a way to assist, we are part of a network that can.

Programs offered Voices of Veterans writing group meets monthly, a support group for Vietnam veterans is held weekly, OIF/OEF veterans meet for food/comradery Wednesdays at 5:30 pm.

Other support meetings are started as the need arises.

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Military Family Support Groups
Veteran Support Groups
Peer to Peer Networking
Veteran Reintegration Counseling
Veteran Benefits Assistance

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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Rent Payment Assistance
County Government Departments/Offices
Veteran Benefits Assistance
Utility Service Payment 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
Veteran Benefits Assistance
Tax Information
Legal Representation
Protective/Restraining Orders
Protection and Advocacy for Individuals With Disabilities
Domestic/Family Violence Legal Services
School System Advocacy
Landlord/Tenant Assistance
Legal Information Services
Child Support Assistance/Enforcement
Patient Rights Assistance
Human Trafficking Legal Assistance
General Legal Aid
Labor and Employment Law
Discrimination Assistance
Adoption Legal Services
Consumer Law
Certificates/Forms Assistance
Welfare Rights Assistance
Child Custody/Visitation Assistance
Will Preparation Assistance
Debt Management
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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Veteran Benefits Assistance
Military Family Service/Support Centers

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.

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

Provides emergency general relief, including rent and utility assistance, medical expense assistance and food vouchers when available. Also helps with Veteran benefits, Veteran Compensation and Pension Benefits and burial benefits. This service is offered to legal residents, indigent individuals, honorably discharged Veterans, their spouses, widows, and dependent children.

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