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Ohio Veterans Bonus — Closed. Applications Ended 30 August 2024

The bonus that most guides still list for Ohio service after 7 October 2001 is no longer available. The department’s own application portal states the programme officially ended on 30 August 2024 and applications are no longer being accepted. The earlier Persian Gulf and Iraq bonus deadlines have expired too.

Verified August 23, 2026

What this benefit is

The bonus that most guides still list for Ohio service after 7 October 2001 is no longer available. The department’s own application portal states the programme officially ended on 30 August 2024 and applications are no longer being accepted. The earlier Persian Gulf and Iraq bonus deadlines have expired too.

What it's worth: Nothing to claim — the application window closed on 30 August 2024

  • The department’s own application portal states the programme "officially ended on 8/30/2024. Applications are no longer being accepted."
  • The same portal states that the deadlines to apply for the Persian Gulf bonus covering 2 August 1990 to 3 March 1991 and the Iraq bonus covering 19 March 2003 to 31 December 2011 have expired.
  • This record carries a weight of zero deliberately. It exists to stop an Ohio veteran spending time on a closed programme, not to promise money.

Who is entitled to it

  • You served after 7 October 2001 — the cohort this bonus was written for.
  • Your home is in Ohio.

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

Deadline: Closed 30 August 2024
  1. 1Do not spend time assembling a bonus application. The department’s portal says applications are no longer being accepted.
  2. 2If a guide, a forum post or a claims service is telling you the Ohio bonus is still open, check the department’s own portal before you pay anyone to help you claim it.
  3. 3If you already applied before the deadline and never heard back, contact the Ohio Department of Veterans Services directly rather than re-applying.
  4. 4Redirect the effort to what is still open: the Military Injury Relief Fund, and the financial assistance your county veterans service commission administers.
  5. 5Ask your county veterans service office what else your service window entitles you to. They prepare and file federal claims as well as paying local assistance.
Form
None — the programme is closed
File with
Nothing to file
No renewal
Once granted it does not need renewing.
CorrectionThird-party benefit guides published in 2026 still list the Ohio Veterans Bonus as an available state benefit. The department that ran it says otherwise on the page where you would have applied.
Worth knowingA closed bonus does not close the rest of the file. The same service window that would have supported a bonus claim still supports the Military Injury Relief Fund and county-level assistance.

Sources

Why only one source type: The department’s own application portal is the operative statement that the programme is closed; no second source can establish an absence more directly, and codes.ohio.gov refused retrieval this session.

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