Kansas veteran benefits
- Verified veteran benefits
- 31
- each with its statute
- Counties covered
- 105
- every one has its own page
- Veterans in this state
- 0.17M
- Rating thresholds that matter
- 0
- each one opens something different
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Browse every verified benefit in your state. No questions, no account — everything is open.
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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
Claim on Form K-40SVR with your Kansas income tax return — not at the assessor.
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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 mechanics in Kansas — this is a base-year freeze claimed through the income tax system, not an assessor exemption.
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What you appear to qualify for — worth checking.
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Did you serve in the armed forces?
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Kansas Does Not Tax Military Retirement Pay
K.S.A. 79-32,117(c)(vii) subtracts military retirement benefits from Kansas adjusted gross income in full. There is no age gate, no cap and no rating requirement. Related subsections separately subtract armed forces RECRUITMENT AND RETENTION BONUSES and student loan repayments, and Kansas National Guard reimbursements — three provisions people rarely know about together.
VeteransApplies statewideThe whole of your military retirement, subtracted from Kansas income
Read it and check if you qualifyThe Base-Year Freeze Refund
Kansas freezes rather than cuts: from a 50% permanent service disability, the K-40SVR refunds however much your property tax has risen above your base year. It is income- and value-limited — household income of $58,041 or less for the 2025 claim year, and a home valued at $350,000 or less in the base year — and it is claimed by 15 April. A claimant aged 65 or over, or the surviving spouse of an eligible claimant, reaches the same refund without the disability route.
VeteransApplies statewideThe rise above your base-year property tax, refunded
Read it and check if you qualifyHomestead Property Tax Refund — Disabled Veterans Qualify at Any Age
Kansas refunds up to $700 of general property taxes paid, and a disabled veteran qualifies AT ANY AGE where others must be 65 or meet a different test. You must be a Kansas resident all year, own and occupy a home valued at $350,000 or less, and have household income of $43,389 or less for the 2025 claim year. Only ONE refund per household across the K-40H, K-40PT and K-40SVR programmes — so choose the best one.
VeteransApplies statewideUp to $700 refunded — and no age requirement on the veteran route
Read it and check if you qualifySales Tax Exempt on $24,000 of Purchases a Year — Worth About $2,400
Kansas exempts up to $24,000 a calendar year of personal-use purchases from sales tax for a resident, honorably discharged veteran certified by the VA as 100% permanently disabled or deemed totally disabled or unemployable. The revenue department estimates the saving at roughly $2,400 a year. Motor vehicles, alcohol, tobacco, e-cigarettes and business-use purchases are outside it — but vehicle maintenance is inside.
VeteransApplies statewideSales tax exempt on up to $24,000 of purchases a year — roughly $2,400 saved
Read it and check if you qualifyA POW Plate With No Licence Fee — and the Surviving Spouse May Keep It
Kansas issues the former prisoner of war plate WITHOUT the regular licence fee, to a Kansas resident held as a prisoner of war in the First or Second World War, Korea, Vietnam or other operations under United States or United States and United Nations flags — including qualifying CIVILIANS held as prisoners of war. One plate per person, on a passenger vehicle or truck of 20,000 lbs or less. Tag and title fees and motor vehicle property tax still apply.
VeteransApplies statewideThe plate without the regular licence fee — tag, title and vehicle property tax still apply
Read it and check if you qualifyTwo Vehicles Free of Vehicle Property Tax
Kansas exempts up to TWO motor vehicles from motor vehicle property tax for full-time military stationed in Kansas; for those stationed outside Kansas on orders with the vehicles kept out of state; for anyone mobilised or deployed at registration; and for current members in good standing of the Kansas Army or Air National Guard. Claim it with the military affidavit, form TR-601, at the county treasurer.
Serving membersApplies statewideNot a veteran benefitNo motor vehicle property tax on up to two vehicles
Read it and check if you qualifyAn Extra $2,250 Personal Exemption at a 100% Permanent Rating
K.S.A. 79-32,121 gives an additional Kansas personal exemption of $2,250 to an honorably discharged veteran certified by the VA as receiving disability compensation at the 100% rate, permanently, where the disability was sustained through military action or accident or resulted from disease contracted in active service. It applies for tax year 2023 onward, and the statute as read carries no inflation adjustment.
VeteransApplies statewideAn additional $2,250 personal exemption
Read it and check if you qualifyDeployed Abroad? The Property Tax on Your Home Can Wait Two Years
A full-time member mobilised or deployed OUTSIDE the United States for at least six months, solely by reason of military orders, may defer all or part of the real property tax on their principal residence for up to TWO YEARS — with interest and penalties on the deferred tax WAIVED. Get the claim from the county clerk and file it with the county treasurer by 1 December.
Serving membersApplies statewideNot a veteran benefitProperty tax deferred up to two years, with interest and penalties waived
Read it and check if you qualifyIn-State Tuition for Veterans, Serving Members and Their Families
K.S.A. 76-729 gives resident tuition rates at Board of Regents institutions to veterans and active duty members of the armed forces — and to their families — with the definitions cross-referenced to K.S.A. 48-3601. The value is the resident-to-nonresident difference at each institution.
VeteransApplies statewideResident tuition rates at Board of Regents institutions
Read it and check if you qualifyTuition and Fees Waived for Families of the Fallen and the 80%-Disabled
Free tuition and required fees for up to TEN SEMESTERS of undergraduate study at Kansas community colleges, the municipal university, state educational institutions, Washburn Institute of Technology and the technical colleges — for the spouse or child of a servicemember who died in service, whose service ended through a service-connected injury or disability, who is VA-rated at least 80% service-connected, or who was a prisoner of war.
VeteransApplies statewideTuition and required fees, up to ten semesters of undergraduate study
Read it and check if you qualifyAn Interview You Cannot Be Denied on a Flagged Vacancy
On any classified vacancy marked Veterans Preference Eligible, a veteran who meets the requirements must be offered an interview — and the same right reaches the spouse of a 100% disabled veteran, an unremarried surviving spouse, and the spouse of a prisoner of war.
VeteransApplies statewideAn offered interview on each Veterans Preference Eligible vacancy whose requirements you meet
Read it and check if you qualifyMilitary Service Scholarship — the Hostile-Fire-Pay Test
Undergraduate tuition and required fees at a public postsecondary institution for a resident who served after 11 September 2001 in international waters or on foreign soil, in operations drawing hostile fire pay, for at least 90 days — or fewer than 90 because of injuries received during that service.
VeteransApplies statewideUp to full tuition and required fees for the academic year, for four academic years of undergraduate study — five if the program requires it
Read it and check if you qualifyOccupational Licence in 15 Days — and Every Fee Waived for a Military Spouse
A licensing body must decide a servicemember’s or military spouse’s complete application within 15 days, against 45 for everyone else. The spouse of an active duty member pays no fee at all — application, licensing, registration, renewal or background report.
VeteransApplies statewideA 15-day decision; for a spouse of an active duty member, every licensing fee waived
Read it and check if you qualifySoldiers’ Home — Two Years’ Residency, and Priority for Those Without Means
Admission to the soldiers’ home turns on wartime service or peacetime service carrying federal VA hospitalization or domiciliary entitlement, a discharge other than dishonorable, disability that leaves you unable to earn a living — and two years’ actual residency here immediately before you apply.
VeteransApplies statewideLong-term residence, with priority given to veterans who have no adequate means of support
Read it and check if you qualifyDisabled Veteran Business — a 3% Contracting Goal, at a 30% Rating
The administration secretary must give a preference to disabled veteran businesses and aims to award at least 3% of contracts to them. The certification threshold is a service-connected evaluation of 30% or more — well above the federal test.
VeteransApplies statewideA preference in state contracting, inside a goal of at least 3% of contracts
Read it and check if you qualifyPermanent Hunting and Fishing Licence, Free, From 30%
The wildlife and parks secretary must issue a PERMANENT licence to hunt and fish, free of charge, to any resident who proves they are a disabled veteran — which here means a service-connected evaluation of 30% or higher.
VeteransApplies statewideA combined hunting and fishing licence, issued once and never renewed or paid for again
Read it and check if you qualifyRegistration and Plate Free at 50% — and Metered Parking With It
A disabled veteran — 50% or more service-connected here — may register a passenger vehicle, a truck up to 20,000 pounds gross or a motorcycle and receive a distinctive plate, both free of charge. The plate also carries free parking at meters.
VeteransApplies statewideRegistration and plate at no charge, renewed free each year, plus free metered parking
Read it and check if you qualifyGuard Educational Assistance — Tuition and Fees Paid, With Twenty-Four More Months Owed
The Kansas National Guard Educational Assistance Act pays a percentage of tuition and fees, up to the maximum rate charged by state institutions, for a serving guard member reading for a certificate, diploma or degree. The percentage moves with the appropriation and the number of applicants. After the last assisted semester, twenty-four further months of Guard service are owed — or the money is repaid.
VeteransApplies statewideA percentage of tuition and fees, capped at the maximum rate charged by state institutions
Read it and check if you qualifyFree Vital Records for a VA Claim — and the First Five Discharge Copies Free Too
The state charges nothing for a certified copy, an abstract or a records search where the person applying shows correspondence from the VA or the Kansas Office of Veterans Services indicating they are applying for VA benefits and need the record to get them. Separately, the register of deeds records a discharge without charge and furnishes the first five certified copies free.
VeteransApplies statewideFirst certified copy or search free for a VA claim; first five discharge copies free at the register of deeds
Read it and check if you qualifyThe State Cemetery System — Built Only on 100% Federal Money, by Statutory Design
The director of the Kansas Office of Veterans Services is authorised to establish and maintain a state system of veterans cemeteries, and may take donations and acquire property for it. The statute forbids the director from contracting for construction unless the federal government provides an amount equal to one hundred percent of the construction cost, and caps the number of federal grant applications.
VeteransApplies statewideInterment in a state veterans cemetery — terms set by the office, not by the statute
Read it and check if you qualifyThe County Must Bury a Veteran Who Dies Without Means — and Not in the Pauper Ground
County commissioners have a statutory duty to cause the decent interment of an honorably discharged person from a named list of conflicts, or of that person’s spouse or parent, who dies without leaving sufficient means to defray funeral expenses. The burial may not be made in any cemetery, burial ground or portion of one used exclusively for the pauper dead, and the county must move a veteran already lying in such ground.
VeteransApplies statewideA decent interment at county expense, outside the pauper ground
Read it and check if you qualifyMilitary Funeral Honours at No Cost — Flag Folded, Taps Sounded, Volleys If You Ask
The state treasury holds a military honors funeral fund administered by the adjutant general, whose expenditures may be used only for providing military honors funerals. The adjutant general’s programme states there is no cost to the family, that the family chooses the type of honours and whether the military, a veterans service organisation, or both perform them, and that the minimum ceremony is the folding and presentation of the flag and the sounding of taps.
VeteransApplies statewideHonours performed at no cost to the family; flag folded and presented, taps sounded
Read it and check if you qualifyFifteen Days’ Notice on Orders — But Only on a Periodic Tenancy
Where a tenant is in the military service of the United States and the termination is necessitated by military orders, not more than fifteen days’ written notice by the tenant is needed to end a tenancy at will or a tenancy from one period to another of three months or less, and the same fifteen days replaces the ordinary thirty on a month-to-month tenancy under the residential landlord and tenant act.
VeteransApplies statewideFifteen days’ notice instead of thirty, on a periodic tenancy
Read it and check if you qualifyDeployment Is Not, By Itself, a Change in Circumstances — and the Burden Shifts on Your Return
Absence, relocation or failure to comply with a custody or parenting time order because of deployment, mobilisation, temporary duty or unaccompanied tour orders may not by itself constitute a material change in circumstances warranting a PERMANENT modification. Any order limiting custody for that reason must be entered as a temporary order. On the returning parent’s motion the court must hear the matter within thirty days, and the non-deploying parent bears the burden.
VeteransApplies statewideA temporary order rather than a permanent one, an expedited hearing, and the burden on the other parent
Read it and check if you qualifyFederal Pension Money Is Shielded From Garnishment — Three Months of It, and Only on an Affidavit
Money received as a pensioner of the United States within the three months immediately preceding the issuing of an execution, attachment or garnishment may not be applied to the pensioner’s debts where it appears the money is necessary for the maintenance of the debtor or a family supported wholly or in part by it. Filing the debtor’s affidavit is prima facie evidence of that necessity, and the court must then release the money immediately.
VeteransApplies statewideUp to three months of federal pension money released from a garnishment
Read it and check if you qualifyTuition and Fees Waived for the Child of a Prisoner of War or a Person Missing in Action
Every community college, Washburn University, every technical college and every other post-high school institution supported by state money must enrol a dependent of a prisoner of war or a person missing in action without charge of tuition or fees, up to ten semesters for anyone who started on or after 1 July 2005. Once a person qualifies, nothing that happens afterwards — including the parent’s return or reported death — takes the entitlement away.
VeteransApplies statewideTuition and fees waived, up to ten semesters
Read it and check if you qualifySix Documents, and No Office May Ask For a Seventh
No Kansas state agency and no municipality may request or demand any other document, or improvise an authentication procedure, to decide eligibility for a benefit that turns on a service-connected disability. The statute names a closed list of six: a United States passport, an unexpired REAL ID driver’s licence, a VA health identity card, a veterans identification card, a Department of Defense common access card, or a listed Department of Defense identity card.
VeteransApplies statewideA closed list of six documents — an office may not add to it
Read it and check if you qualifyThey May Not Ask For Your Medical Records, Reopen Your Rating, or Push You to Be Re-evaluated
Federal findings of service-connected disability are probative in Kansas. State agencies and municipalities may not request or demand a veteran’s private health information to decide disability benefit eligibility, may not reconsider a disability determination made by a service secretary or the Secretary of Veterans Affairs, and may not ask a veteran to voluntarily seek a re-evaluation of an existing claim. Three named documents are what may be asked for instead.
VeteransApplies statewideNo medical records, no second-guessing the rating, no pressure to be re-examined
Read it and check if you qualifyFinish the Specialty Court Programme and the Sentence May Be Reduced — Though the Statute Never Says "Veteran"
Kansas authorises specialty courts by statute: the Supreme Court adopts the rules, a chief judge of a judicial district may establish a programme, and where a person is sentenced into one and completes it, the sentence may be reduced or modified. The statute is written around problem-solving dockets generally and does not use the word veteran — the veterans treatment courts sit inside that frame, under Supreme Court Rule 191 and the Specialty Court Committee it created.
VeteransApplies statewideA reduced or modified sentence on completion — but never below the statutory minimum
Read it and check if you qualifyAccredited Claims Help Is Bought For You, and the Statute Says Every Veteran Is To Be Served
The veterans claims assistance program is a statutory grant scheme: the director of the Kansas Office of Veterans Services makes annual grants to veterans service organisations so they can supply claims counselling, on a duty framed as ensuring that every veteran is served and receives claims counselling and assistance. A VCAP advisory board sits over it, and the legislative budget committee reviews it every year.
VeteransApplies statewideClaims counselling from an accredited service officer, paid for by the state
Read it and check if you qualifyGold Star Mother Plates — Mothers Only, and the Ordinary Fee Still Applies
A resident who proves she is the mother of a person who died while in good standing on active duty may be issued a distinctive gold star mother plate for each passenger vehicle, truck of 20,000 pounds or less, or motorcycle she owns or leases. Two things are commonly got wrong: the section reaches mothers and nobody else, and the plate is issued on payment of the regular licence fee — there is no fee waiver in it.
VeteransApplies statewideA distinctive plate; the regular licence fee under K.S.A. 8-143 still applies
Read it and check if you qualifyVETERAN on the Licence — General Under Honourable Conditions Counts
Any veteran may ask the Division of Vehicles for a driver's licence showing the designation "VETERAN" on the front. The proof is a DD Form 214, an NGB Form 22 or an equivalent discharge document showing character of service as honorable OR general under honorable conditions — the statute defines the word for itself and does not limit it to an honourable discharge.
VeteransApplies statewideVETERAN printed on the front of the licence
Read it and check if you qualifyThe Placard Needs a Clinician, Not a Rating — and the Identification Card Must Be in the Car
A disability placard or plate is issued on a statement from a person licensed to practise the healing arts, an optometrist, an advanced practice registered nurse, a physician assistant or a Christian Science practitioner. A VA rating letter is not on that list. The placard comes with an individual identification card that must be carried whenever the vehicle is parked in a reserved space, and a holder of a distinctive plate can instead be issued a wheelchair emblem decal to affix to it.
VeteransApplies statewideNot a veteran benefitPermanent placard plus identification card; no extra fee for the special plate
Read it and check if you qualifyIn-Home Services at 60 — No Veteran Door, and Paid Only After Everything Else
The Kansas senior care act authorises a programme of in-home services and a programme of preventative health services for residents aged 60 or over whose functional limitations restrict daily living and impede independent living. It is administered through the area agencies on aging. Service does not open it earlier and does not move you up it — and the money is expressly a payer of last resort, spent only where other sources are not available.
VeteransApplies statewideNot a veteran benefitIn-home and preventative health services at 60 — no veteran route or priority
Read it and check if you qualify
Does my county change the answer?
For the statewide records, no — the same law applies in all 105 counties. What changes is the office you file with and the local tax arithmetic, which we do not yet hold for Kansas.
- Allen County
- Anderson County
- Atchison County
- Barber County
- Barton County
- Bourbon County
- Brown County
- Butler County
- Chase County
- Chautauqua County
- Cherokee County
- Cheyenne County
- Clark County
- Clay County
- Cloud County
- Coffey County
- Comanche County
- Cowley County
- Crawford County
- Decatur County
- Dickinson County
- Doniphan County
- Douglas County
- Edwards County
- Elk County
- Ellis County
- Ellsworth County
- Finney County
- Ford County
- Franklin County
- Geary County
- Gove County
- Graham County
- Grant County
- Gray County
- Greeley County
- Greenwood County
- Hamilton County
- Harper County
- Harvey County
- Haskell County
- Hodgeman County
- Jackson County
- Jefferson County
- Jewell County
- Johnson County
- Kearny County
- Kingman County
- Kiowa County
- Labette County
- Lane County
- Leavenworth County
- Lincoln County
- Linn County
- Logan County
- Lyon County
- McPherson County
- Marion County
- Marshall County
- Meade County
- Miami County
- Mitchell County
- Montgomery County
- Morris County
- Morton County
- Nemaha County
- Neosho County
- Ness County
- Norton County
- Osage County
- Osborne County
- Ottawa County
- Pawnee County
- Phillips County
- Pottawatomie County
- Pratt County
- Rawlins County
- Reno County
- Republic County
- Rice County
- Riley County
- Rooks County
- Rush County
- Russell County
- Saline County
- Scott County
- Sedgwick County
- Seward County
- Shawnee County
- Sheridan County
- Sherman County
- Smith County
- Stafford County
- Stanton County
- Stevens County
- Sumner County
- Thomas County
- Trego County
- Wabaunsee County
- Wallace County
- Washington County
- Wichita County
- Wilson County
- Woodson County
- Wyandotte 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.