Which document will your property appraiser actually accept?

One statute. Sixty-seven counties. Palm Beach names VAFL 27-333. Charlotte names it too and appears to swap which letter goes with which exemption. Miami-Dade gives no guidance on combat-relatedness at all and redirects you to a 1-800 number. Duval asks for "a letter" and stops there.

More than a third of benefit denials nationally are for missing verification documents. This page exists to stop that happening to you.

Your county

How to configure your VA Benefit Summary Letter

This is the Tier 1 document — you can download it yourself in about two minutes, and configured correctly it satisfies most counties. The checkbox configuration is the entire trick, and nobody tells veterans what it is.

Tick: military service information
Tick: combined service-connected evaluation
Tick: whether you are service connected
Tick: whether you are considered totally and permanently disabled
Tick unemployability where it applies to you
Leave monthly award amount UNCHECKED — it is not needed and discloses income

Configured this way the letter satisfies most counties and discloses no diagnoses.

Open VA.gov letters

Your document checklist

Applications that arrive with three or more verification documents are about 20% more likely to be approved. This tracks documents ready, not form fields filled in, because the documents are what decides it.

VA Benefit Summary LetterSign in at VA.gov, choose Download VA Letters, then Benefit Summary — Veteran Benefits.
DD Form 214Many veterans recorded their DD214 with the county clerk at discharge and can get a certified copy the same day — check there before writing to NARA.Ask yourself: Is there text in Block 24 of your DD214?
Proof of Florida residencyFlorida licence, voter registration, or a utility bill in your name.
Social Security numberYou supply this on the DR-501 itself. April 1 is the cure deadline if it is missing.

0 of 4 documents ready

The emailed PDF includes how to photograph or scan each document so the property appraiser accepts it first time. We help you assemble and hand over your documents — we do not submit them to the property appraiser for you.

Where we stop

State and local benefits are outside VA accreditation, so we help you with those all the way through. Federal VA disability claims are different. For anything touching a VA claim we will assemble your context and hand you off to an accredited County Veteran Service Officer or VSO — we will not advise you on the claim itself, and we will never charge you.

One thing we will never suggest: asking the VA for a permanence determination if you are rated TDIU. That can trigger a reduction review.

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