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$7 Lifetime Hunting and Fishing Licence
Seven dollars, once, for a lifetime combination hunting and fishing licence — for any veteran the VA pays monthly, 0% compensable ratings included, and former POWs.
Verified August 27, 2026
What this benefit is
Seven dollars, once, for a lifetime combination hunting and fishing licence — for any veteran the VA pays monthly, 0% compensable ratings included, and former POWs.
What it's worth: A lifetime combination hunting and fishing licence, for a one-time $7
- Tags, habitat stamps and trout stamps are bought separately — the $7 covers the licence itself, for life.
- Iowa Code §483A.24(16) also allows a lifetime FISHING-only licence as an alternative to the combined hunting and fishing licence.
- The statutory test is entitlement to a service-connected rating under 38 U.S.C. chapter 11. There is no minimum percentage — a 0% compensable rating qualifies.
- Former prisoners of war are eligible on their own footing.
Who is entitled to it
- You have a compensable service-connected disability.
- You are a resident of this state.
Not sure whether that describes you?
Answer a few questions about this benefit specifically — we only ask what this one actually depends on, and we stop as soon as we know.
How to claim it
- 1Send the application to the DNR central office with $7 by check — this one route still runs on paper, not through Go Outdoors Iowa.
- 2The gate is the VA paying you monthly for a service-connected disability — county veterans affairs guidance says 0% compensable ratings count, so do not self-select out on a low rating.
- 3Meet the 90-day Iowa residency before applying, and buy tags and stamps separately season by season.
- Form
- DNR disabled veteran lifetime licence application
- File with
- The Iowa DNR central office, by mail
- Documents you will need
- va benefit summary letter
- No renewal
- Once granted it does not need renewing.
CorrectionThe gate is compensation, not percentage: county veterans affairs guidance states that a 0% compensable rating qualifies, as long as the VA pays monthly. A veteran waiting to hit some threshold is waiting for nothing.
Worth knowingFormer prisoners of war qualify with no disability showing at all.
Sources
- authority · statuteIowa Code §483A.24(16)
- operating · formIowa DNR — Disabled Veterans Lifetime Hunting and Fishing Application (Form 542-1412)
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