Arkansas veteran benefits
- Verified veteran benefits
- 23
- each with its statute
- Counties covered
- 75
- every one has its own page
- Veterans in this state
- 0.20M
- Rating thresholds that matter
- 0
- each one opens something different
How to use this, in four steps
You are on step 1. Nothing is locked — browse everything first, then check the ones that look relevant.
See what you may be entitled to
Browse every verified benefit in your state. No questions, no account — everything is open.
Check whether you qualify
Open any benefit and answer a few questions about that one. We stop as soon as we know.
Get the letter that shows the finding
A VA Benefit Summary Letter configured to show service connection, the rating and permanence satisfies most offices without disclosing any diagnosis.
File before the deadline
Furnish the VA verification letter to the county collector once — eligibility persists, including across county lines.
Which of these sounds like you?
Pick one and we will narrow the list. You can change or clear it at any point.
Two things sharpen this a lot
Both optional. Your county decides where you file and what a property tax exemption is actually worth; your rating decides which thresholds you cross.
Where do you live?
We use this once to work out your county, because property tax is decided county by county. No benefit is ever matched on a ZIP code alone.
Your VA disability status
What does my rating actually unlock?
Read the record for the routes that apply in Arkansas — 100% permanent and total, or special monthly compensation for the loss of use of a limb or blindness in one or both eyes.
2 likely, 25 possible
What you appear to qualify for — worth checking.
One question checks 17 of them. You can skip it and keep browsing.
Did you serve in the U.S. armed forces?
2 more questions could resolve others. We ask them one at a time.
Congressional Medal of Honor Plate
A Medal of Honor recipient, certified by letter from the Arkansas Department of Veterans Affairs, receives the Congressional Medal of Honor plate. The department states no fee for the initial plate; an additional plate is $4.00, and a surviving-spouse reissue is $4.00. Personalisation is available.
VeteransApplies statewideNo fee stated for the first plate; $4.00 for an additional plate or a spouse reissue
Read it and check if you qualifyNo Sales Tax on a Vehicle or Adaptive Equipment Bought with VA Assistance
A disabled veteran who buys a highway-licensed motor vehicle, or adaptive equipment, with VA financial assistance under 38 U.S.C. 1901-1905 pays no Arkansas gross receipts tax on it. Proof is an official VA letter verifying the assisted purchase. On a vehicle this is one of the larger single-transaction savings available in the state.
VeteransApplies statewideGross receipts (sales) tax exempt on the vehicle and its adaptive equipment
Read it and check if you qualifyA Camping Discount at State Parks for 100% Permanent and Total Disability
Arkansas State Parks discounts standard campsite fees for people who are 100% permanently and totally disabled. A veteran proves it with a VBA award letter dated within the last two years, an Arkansas DV or DAV plate, or an Access Pass. There is no Arkansas residency requirement in the rule — U.S. citizenship is what it asks. The discount is on standard campsites, not cabins or yurts.
VeteransApplies statewideNot a veteran benefitA discount on standard campsite fees — not cabins or yurts
Read it and check if you qualifyPurple Heart Plate — and a Second One for a Dollar
An Arkansas resident awarded the Purple Heart, certified by the Department of Defense, gets the Purple Heart plate at the standard registration fee and a SECOND plate for $1.00. A motorcycle version exists. One plate may be reissued to the surviving spouse at the regular registration fee — with a marriage licence and death certificate where they were not a joint owner.
VeteransApplies statewideThe plate at the standard registration fee, plus a second plate for $1.00
Read it and check if you qualifyMilitary Retirement Pay Is Fully Exempt from Arkansas Income Tax
All uniformed-services retirement pay has been exempt from Arkansas income tax since tax year 2018, with no rating requirement and no age gate. One trap: if your military exemption comes to $6,000 or more you cannot also claim the general $6,000 employer-plan retirement exemption. Below $6,000, the remainder can be applied against other employer-sponsored retirement income.
VeteransApplies statewide100% of uniformed-services retirement pay exempt from Arkansas income tax
Read it and check if you qualifyRent and Utilities for the Children of a Veteran Who Has Died or Been Hospitalised
The Veterans' Child Welfare Service pays up to three months of rent or house payments and utilities for the minor children of a veteran who has recently died, been hospitalised or become medically incapacitated, where the family has limited or no income. More is available at the Director's discretion. Counselling and referrals come with it. It is funded from general revenue and subsidised by the American Legion and Auxiliary.
VeteransApplies statewideUp to three months of rent or house payments and utilities, with more at the Director's discretion
Read it and check if you qualifyEx-Prisoner of War Plate — Up to Two, Free
An Arkansas resident who was a prisoner of war while serving, certified by the Department of Defense, gets up to TWO plates at no cost. One may be reissued to the surviving spouse at the regular registration fee, with a death certificate where they were not a joint owner.
VeteransApplies statewideUp to two plates at no cost
Read it and check if you qualifyA High School Diploma for the War That Interrupted School
An honorably discharged veteran who left high school before graduating and served 18 or more consecutive months of active duty during the Second World War, Korea or Vietnam may be granted a high school diploma by the local school district board. A discharge with a service-connected disability substitutes for the 18-month requirement. The qualifying windows are 16 September 1940 to 31 December 1946, 1 June 1950 to 1 January 1954, and 3 July 1965 to 15 May 1975.
VeteransApplies statewideA high school diploma granted by the local school district board
Read it and check if you qualifyNo Sales Tax on a Car Every Two Years for a Service-Blinded Veteran
A veteran blind as the result of a service-connected injury pays no sales tax on one new or used passenger automobile or pickup truck, once every two years. A VA certifying statement is what establishes it. Larger trucks and trailers are outside it. This is a separate route from the VA-assisted purchase exemption and does not require the VA to have funded the vehicle.
VeteransApplies statewideSales tax exempt on one car or pickup every two years
Read it and check if you qualifyHomestead and Personal Property — Exempt in Full
The homestead AND personal property come off the roll entirely — at 100% permanent and total, or on special monthly compensation for limb loss or blindness — with no annual renewal, ever.
VeteransApplies statewideHomestead and personal property, exempt from all state taxes
Read it and check if you qualifyLifetime Licences — $3 at 100%, $52.50 at 70%, and a Retiree Tier at 60
Three routes. At 100% permanent and total, lifetime hunting and fishing together cost $3. At 70% — or 50% with a Purple Heart — $52.50 buys the lifetime combination WITH the trout and duck stamps for life. And separately from disability altogether, a military retiree aged 60 or over buys a lifetime licence on a retirement ID: fishing $10.50, hunting $25, or the combination at $35.50.
VeteransApplies statewide$1.50 lifetime fishing + $1.50 lifetime hunting at 100% P&T; $52.50 lifetime combo with stamps at 70%+; retiree lifetime combo $35.50 at 60+
Read it and check if you qualifyMilitary Dependents' Scholarship — Tuition, Room AND Board
A spouse or child of an Arkansas veteran who was killed or missing in action, a POW, killed on ordnance delivery, or is 100% totally and permanently disabled from service is educated with in-state tuition, campus room and board, AND fees waived — pursuing a bachelor's degree or certificate.
VeteransApplies statewideIn-state tuition, campus room and board, and fees waived — bachelor's or certificate
Read it and check if you qualifyDisabled Veteran Plate (100% Non-Service-Connected) — First Plate Free
A veteran certified by the federal VA as 100% non-service-connected disabled receives the white-on-red Disabled Veteran plate at no charge — one additional plate costs $4.00, and one plate can be reissued to the unremarried surviving spouse for $4.00.
VeteransApplies statewideFirst plate free; one additional plate $4.00; surviving-spouse reissue $4.00
Read it and check if you qualifyState Veterans Homes — and Gold Star Parents May Apply
Two state homes, in Fayetteville and North Little Rock. The department names veterans, veterans’ spouses and Gold Star parents as the people who may apply, with an honorable discharge and a medical need for nursing home placement.
VeteransApplies statewideSkilled nursing care at a state veterans home, with hospice available
Read it and check if you qualifyFederal Surplus Property for a Veteran-Owned Small Business
A veteran-owned small business with a physical presence in this state can buy federal surplus equipment through the state surplus programme at a service charge, typically 10% to 50% of the item’s original value.
Veteran business ownersApplies statewideAccess to federal surplus equipment at a service charge below market value
Read it and check if you qualifyState Veterans Cemeteries — Free for the Veteran, $807 for a Spouse
Two state veterans cemeteries, at North Little Rock and Birdeye. Interment costs an eligible veteran nothing; a spouse or qualified dependent is charged $807, and the department asks for it at pre-registration.
VeteransApplies statewideNo cost to inter an eligible veteran; $807 for a spouse or qualified dependent
Read it and check if you qualifyHiring Preference That Also Reaches Promotion and Retention
State agencies must give preference in hiring, promotion AND retention to qualified veterans, disabled veterans, spouses of disabled veterans and the surviving spouse of a deceased qualified veteran — but only to applicants who volunteer their proof.
VeteransApplies statewidePreference in hiring, promotion and retention across state departments
Read it and check if you qualifyNational Guard Tuition Waiver — Tuition and Mandatory Fees, Public Institutions Only
A serving Guard member in good standing who has not already been awarded a bachelor’s degree can have tuition and mandatory institutional fees waived at a state-supported public two-year or four-year institution. Private and out-of-state schools are excluded.
VeteransApplies statewideTuition and mandatory institutional fees waived at a state-supported public institution
Read it and check if you qualifyOne Free Birth or Death Certificate for a Veteran — the Form Nobody Knows About
The health department publishes a single-page form, VR-40, that lets a veteran or a named relative ask for a free copy of a birth OR a death certificate. The form cites the code section on its face. The ordinary charge is $10 for a first death certificate and $12 for a first birth certificate.
VeteransApplies statewideOne certificate at no charge — $12 for a first birth copy, $10 for a first death copy otherwise
Read it and check if you qualifyAutomatic Occupational Licensure — the Requirement Is Waived, the Fee Is Not
A serving member, a veteran or a spouse who already holds a licence in good standing elsewhere can be granted a licence here without meeting this state’s own licensure requirements. Agencies publish this under a "fee waiver" heading, and then say the initial licence fee is still payable.
VeteransApplies statewideLicensure granted without meeting this state’s own requirements — the initial licence fee is still payable
Read it and check if you qualifyMilitary Funeral Honours Stipend — Paid to the Honour Guard, Not the Family
The veterans department reimburses veterans service organisation honour guard teams that augment active duty branch teams in delivering military funeral honours. The rate is set in a Memorandum of Agreement and is not published on the department’s page.
VeteransApplies statewideReimbursement to the honour guard organisation; the rate is in the Memorandum of Agreement
Read it and check if you qualifyA Staffed Women Veterans Post, With a Registry Behind It
The state veterans department runs a women veterans programme under a named coordinator, serving more than nineteen thousand women veterans. It carries a registry, an annual summit, a retreat, a recognition award and a dedicated licence plate.
VeteransApplies statewideA named coordinator, a registry, a summit, a retreat and a plate
Read it and check if you qualifyFree Veteran-Produced Branding, and a Metal Sign for the Gate
Farmer veterans can label their produce as veteran-grown at no cost, and receive a custom-designed metal sign for the property, approved by the state highway department. Certification runs through a national coalition, not through the state.
VeteransApplies statewideVeteran-produced labelling at no cost, plus a custom metal property sign
Read it and check if you qualifyGold Star Family Plate — One Per Person, and Your Name Must Be on the Title
One plate for a spouse, parent, sibling or child of a service member whose death the Department of Defense recognises. It needs the Report of Casualty plus a document proving the relationship, and the applicant must be an owner or co-owner on the vehicle title.
VeteransApplies statewideOne Gold Star Family plate per eligible applicant
Read it and check if you qualifyVeteran Designation on the Licence — Six Documents Open It
A veteran designation is added to a driver licence or identification card on a discharge document showing honorable or general-under-honorable-conditions status. Six different documents are accepted, and the only cost named is the ordinary licence or card fee.
VeteransApplies statewideA veteran designation on the licence or identification card, at the ordinary card fee
Read it and check if you qualifyDisabled Parking Placards Are Free — and Have No Veteran Route
Permanent placards are free and run four years; temporary ones are free and run three months. Four kinds of clinician can certify. Nothing on the finance department's placard page turns on a VA rating, and the disabled veteran plate is a separate thing entirely.
VeteransApplies statewideNot a veteran benefitFree placards — four years permanent, three months temporary
Read it and check if you qualifyA Respite Voucher for Caregivers Everything Else Turned Down
A payer-of-last-resort voucher for unpaid family caregivers giving forty hours a week or more of care. Being on a waiting list, or having been refused respite by an existing programme, is a qualification here rather than a bar.
VeteransApplies statewideNot a veteran benefitFinancial assistance to buy planned respite over roughly a ninety-day award term
Read it and check if you qualify
Does my county change the answer?
For the statewide records, no — the same law applies in all 75 counties. What changes is the office you file with and the local tax arithmetic, which we do not yet hold for Arkansas.
- Arkansas County
- Ashley County
- Baxter County
- Benton County
- Boone County
- Bradley County
- Calhoun County
- Carroll County
- Chicot County
- Clark County
- Clay County
- Cleburne County
- Cleveland County
- Columbia County
- Conway County
- Craighead County
- Crawford County
- Crittenden County
- Cross County
- Dallas County
- Desha County
- Drew County
- Faulkner County
- Franklin County
- Fulton County
- Garland County
- Grant County
- Greene County
- Hempstead County
- Hot Spring County
- Howard County
- Independence County
- Izard County
- Jackson County
- Jefferson County
- Johnson County
- Lafayette County
- Lawrence County
- Lee County
- Lincoln County
- Little River County
- Logan County
- Lonoke County
- Madison County
- Marion County
- Miller County
- Mississippi County
- Monroe County
- Montgomery County
- Nevada County
- Newton County
- Ouachita County
- Perry County
- Phillips County
- Pike County
- Poinsett County
- Polk County
- Pope County
- Prairie County
- Pulaski County
- Randolph County
- St. Francis County
- Saline County
- Scott County
- Searcy County
- Sebastian County
- Sevier County
- Sharp County
- Stone County
- Union County
- Van Buren County
- Washington County
- White County
- Woodruff County
- Yell County
Every benefit here was checked against the statute or rule behind it, and each page shows the date. This is an informational match, not a government eligibility determination — the responsible agency decides your application.