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Your Town Job Back — But You Have Ninety Days to Ask

A veteran who worked for a town, a city or another political subdivision before active military service is reemployed in the position previously held, on application. The trap is the clock: the department states the application must be made within NINETY DAYS after discharge from active military service. Miss it and the statutory route is gone.

Verified August 23, 2026

What this benefit is

A veteran who worked for a town, a city or another political subdivision before active military service is reemployed in the position previously held, on application. The trap is the clock: the department states the application must be made within NINETY DAYS after discharge from active military service. Miss it and the statutory route is gone.

What it's worth: Reemployment by a town or other political subdivision in the previously held position, on application made within 90 days of discharge from active military service

  • The department states that reemployment of veterans by towns and other political subdivisions, upon application, shall be made within 90 days after the veteran is discharged from active military service.
  • The department cites RSA 97:1, 97:2 and 97:3 for the provision.
  • The department publishes no separate rule on this page for reemployment by the state itself or by a private employer.
  • The RSA sections themselves could not be read this session; the legislature's statute server refuses both an automated fetch and a browser navigation.

Who is entitled to it

  • Your discharge characterisation is within the range these run on.
  • You are in this state.

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How to claim it

Deadline: Within 90 days after discharge from active military service
  1. 1Diary ninety days from your discharge date the moment you have the discharge document, and apply well inside it. This is the tightest employment deadline in this state's corpus and it starts running whether or not anyone tells you.
  2. 2Put the application in writing to the town, even if you have already spoken to a manager. A conversation is not an application and will not be provable in ninety days' time.
  3. 3Name the position you previously held. The right described is reemployment in that position, not a general right to be considered for whatever is open.
  4. 4Send it to the appointing authority for your old post — the town administrator, the department head, or the board that hired you — not just to a payroll office.
  5. 5Keep proof of the date. Where a deadline is the whole of the defence, the postmark or the email timestamp is the evidence.
  6. 6If your former employer was the state rather than a town, ask separately. The department's page frames this provision around towns and other political subdivisions, and the state's own rules are not stated alongside it.
  7. 7Ask a state veterans service officer to make the application with you if the town resists. This is a statutory duty on the municipality, not a request for a favour.
Form
A written application for reemployment to the employing town or political subdivision
File with
Your former municipal employer
Documents you will need
dd214
No renewal
Once granted it does not need renewing.
CorrectionThe federal reemployment law that most people have heard of has its own, longer and more graduated set of application deadlines. This is a separate state provision with a single flat ninety-day window, and a veteran who assumes the federal timetable applies to a town job here can be badly out.
Worth knowingMunicipal employment is where this bites hardest. Towns are small, posts get backfilled quickly, and a returning veteran who waits to "settle in first" often finds the job filled before they apply.
Known gapThe department does not state what happens where the position no longer exists, what seniority or pay is restored, or how the ninety days interact with a period of medical treatment after discharge. Take the RSA sections to a lawyer or a service officer before relying on any of it.

Sources

Why only one source type: The state veterans department's own benefits page states the right, the ninety-day application window and the three RSA sections. The legislature's statute server refuses both an automated fetch and a live browser navigation, so no section could be read verbatim.

This finder provides an informational match, not a government eligibility determination. The responsible agency decides your application.