Veteran Status Printed on the Licence, So You Stop Carrying the DD214
A person who wishes to have veteran status shown on a driver’s licence or identification card may have it indicated there, on documentation confirming that status, with the department verifying the status and making rules to carry the section out. It turns a document you keep in a drawer into one you carry in a wallet.
Verified August 23, 2026
What this benefit is
A person who wishes to have veteran status shown on a driver’s licence or identification card may have it indicated there, on documentation confirming that status, with the department verifying the status and making rules to carry the section out. It turns a document you keep in a drawer into one you carry in a wallet.
What it's worth: Veteran status on the licence or ID, verified once
- The section names no fee. Whether the designation is added free at renewal or attracts the ordinary duplicate-licence charge is set by department rule and by when you ask for it, not by the statute.
- The statute does not say what the designation entitles you to. Its worth is practical: a merchant, a park gate or a clerk asking for proof of service can be answered from a wallet.
Who is entitled to it
- The designation goes on the veteran’s own licence or identification card.
- You are in this state.
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How to claim it
- 1Ask for it at your next renewal rather than making a special trip, because a mid-cycle change is the version most likely to be charged as a duplicate.
- 2Take documentation confirming veteran status — in practice the DD Form 214 or the NGB Form 22. The section requires documentation and leaves the detail to rule, so ring ahead and ask which document that office wants.
- 3The verification is done by the department, not by you. The section directs the department to verify the person’s status as a veteran, so expect the office to check rather than simply photocopy.
- 4The section itself is thin by design — it directs the department to make rules necessary to carry out its provisions, so the fee, the documentation list and the process live in administrative rule.
- 5Keep the DD214 anyway. State offices, county clerks and the federal VA all still ask for it, and the designation on a licence is not a substitute for the discharge document itself.
- 6If you also want the discharge recorded with the county so certified copies are easy to get later, that is a separate route and is already covered in this corpus.
- Form
- Driver licence or identification card application, asking for the veteran designation
- File with
- Motor Vehicle Division driver licensing office
- Documents you will need
- dd214
- At each renewal
- Claimed again whenever the underlying licence or registration renews.
Sources
- authority · statuteMont. Code Ann. §10-2-1301 — Veteran status on driver’s license and identification cards; documentation; rulemaking
Why only one source type: The section states the entitlement, the documentation requirement, the verification duty and the rulemaking power in terms; the administrative rule carrying the fee and the document list was not reachable this session and is recorded as a candidate.
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