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Up to $3,000 to the Employer Who Hires You — and a Two-Year Cliff

An employer claims $3,000 for hiring a disabled veteran, $2,000 for a veteran who is not disabled and $1,000 for a seasonal hire. The veteran must have been unemployed more than four weeks, and the discharge window is ten years for a disabled veteran but only two for everyone else.

Verified August 23, 2026

What this benefit is

What it's worth: $3,000 disabled, $2,000 not disabled, $1,000 seasonal — claimed by the employer

The published credit amounts are $3,000 for employing a disabled veteran, $2,000 for employing a veteran who is not disabled, and $1,000 for employing a veteran in a seasonal position.
The veteran must have been unemployed for more than four weeks before the employment begins.
For a disabled veteran — meaning a service-connected disability through the federal veterans administration — the discharge or release must be less than ten years before the date employment begins.
For a veteran who is not disabled, the discharge or release must be less than two years before the date employment begins.
Hour requirements: 1,560 hours in the twelve consecutive months immediately following employment for a full-time position, or 500 hours in three consecutive months for a seasonal position.
The employer applies on the state form when filing its taxes; the document states there is only one form and no certification process.
The credit is claimed by the employer on its annual corporate income tax return, not by the veteran.
The state veterans office cites AS 43.20.048 as the authority and directs employers to state form 6325.
The revenue department’s tax division is the contact for applying, on 907-269-6620.

Who is entitled to it

You served, which is the gate here.
The programme runs on a discharge or release from military service.
Your home is in this state.

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How to claim it

Deadline: With the employer’s annual corporate income tax return

1Work out your own window before you use this. Ten years from discharge if you have a service-connected disability; two years if you do not. Past that, the credit is worth nothing to the employer.
2Raise it in the interview, with the figure. Most hiring managers in a small business have never heard of it, and $3,000 against a salary is a real argument.
3Check the unemployment condition: more than four weeks out of work before the job starts. Moving straight from one job to another takes the credit off the table.
4Tell the employer there is no certification process and one form — that removes the usual objection, which is paperwork rather than money.
5Bring the discharge record and, if you have one, the letter showing the service-connected disability. The disabled rate is 50% higher and the window five times longer.
6If the role is seasonal, the credit is $1,000 and the hours test is 500 hours in three consecutive months rather than 1,560 in twelve.
7Point the employer at the revenue department tax division on 907-269-6620 rather than trying to explain the filing yourself.

Form: Alaska form 6325, filed by the employer with its corporate income tax return
File with: Department of Revenue, Tax Division — by the employer
Documents you will need: dd214 · va benefit summary letter
No renewal: Once granted it does not need renewing.

CorrectionThis is not money for the veteran and is regularly listed as if it were. It is a credit against an employer’s corporate income tax. Its value to a veteran is entirely as a bargaining chip at the point of hire, and it expires.

CorrectionThe two-year window for a veteran without a service-connected disability is the trap. A veteran who spends eighteen months looking for work and then finds a willing employer may have run out the clock before the offer arrives.

Worth knowingThe statute AS 43.20.048 was not read — the legislature’s statute host refuses automated access. The amounts, windows and hour tests come from the labour department’s own current programme document; the statute may carry conditions the leaflet does not.

Sources

authority · published policyDepartment of Labor and Workforce Development — Alaska Veteran Employment Tax Credit (rev. 1/24)
operating · published policyOffice of Veterans Affairs — Employment Benefits (naming AS 43.20.048 and form 6325)

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