Disabled Veteran Plates — Free Registration, Any Rating
One vehicle registers free with disabled veteran plates — and the gate is any service-connected disability, with no percentage at all.
Verified August 19, 2026
What this benefit is
One vehicle registers free with disabled veteran plates — and the gate is any service-connected disability, with no percentage at all.
What it's worth: No annual registration fee on one personally used vehicle
- The exemption covers one motor vehicle owned and used personally by the veteran.
Who is entitled to it
- The VA certifies a service-connected disability — any degree.
- Your home is in Virginia.
Not sure whether that describes you?
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How to claim it
- 1Bring the VA certification of a service-connected disability — the percentage does not matter for the basic plate.
- 2If you want the version that uses accessible parking, that needs a separate practitioner certification — the disability plate and the parking privilege are different tests.
- 3An unremarried surviving spouse keeps the plate and the free registration — claim it rather than surrendering the plates.
- File with
- The Virginia DMV
- Documents you will need
- va benefit summary letter
- Annual
- Claimed once a year.
Sources
- authority · statuteVa. Code §46.2-739
Why only one source type: The statute on the Commonwealth's own code site states the exemption, the any-degree gate and the surviving spouse provision in terms.
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