Wyoming veteran benefits
- Verified veteran benefits
- 19
- plus 4 general-law and correction records
- Counties covered
- 23
- every one has its own page
- Veterans in this state
- 0.04M
- Rating thresholds that matter
- 0
- each one opens something different
How to use this, in four steps
You are on step 1. Nothing is locked — browse everything first, then check the ones that look relevant.
See what you may be entitled to
Browse every verified benefit in your state. No questions, no account — everything is open.
Check whether you qualify
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 with the county assessor by the fourth Monday of May, every year.
Which of these sounds like you?
Pick one and we will narrow the list. You can change or clear it at any point.
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 routes in Wyoming — wartime service, or any compensable service-connected disability with no percentage floor.
6 likely, 23 possible
What you appear to qualify for — worth checking.
One question checks 10 of them. You can skip it and keep browsing.
How were you discharged?
2 more questions could resolve others. We ask them one at a time.
Record Your DD-214 Free — and Wyoming Keeps It Private
Every Wyoming county clerk records a veteran's discharge document FREE OF CHARGE under W.S. 19-14-104. Wyoming does something most states do not: THE RECORDED DOCUMENT IS NOT AVAILABLE FOR PUBLIC INSPECTION. Access is limited to the veteran, their authorised agent, dependants and veterans' service officers. Elsewhere in this corpus recording a discharge is free but makes the document public, and a veteran has to weigh convenience against disclosure. In Wyoming there is no trade-off to make.
VeteransApplies statewideFree recording of the discharge, kept out of public inspection
Read it and check if you qualify$6,000 of Assessed Value — Doubled for 2025
$6,000 of assessed value comes off — doubled from $3,000 for tax year 2025 — for wartime service OR any compensable service-connected disability, claimed fresh each May. It applies to the primary residence or, at your choice, to motor vehicle registration. A surviving spouse continues the exemption until remarriage.
VeteransApplies statewide$6,000 of assessed value (from tax year 2025), on the home or a vehicle
Read it and check if you qualifyFree Tuition for Survivors and Dependants — Eight Semesters in Eight Years
Wyoming pays free tuition at the UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING OR ANY WYOMING COMMUNITY COLLEGE for the surviving spouses and dependants covered by W.S. 19-14-106. The structure is UP TO 8 SEMESTERS WITHIN AN 8-ACADEMIC-YEAR WINDOW — so the entitlement is generous in volume but bounded in time, and a student who takes a break can run out of window before running out of semesters. For enrolments after summer 2018 the benefit covers tuition on defined terms; check the current position with the institution's VA certifying official.
StudentsApplies statewideFree tuition, up to 8 semesters within an 8-academic-year window
Read it and check if you qualifyOperation Recognition — a Diploma, and a Phone Number That Answers
The Wyoming Veterans Commission awards a high school diploma to a veteran who left school to serve and never received one. The commission runs a HOTLINE ON 1-800-833-5987, which for a benefit of this kind is unusually direct — most states route it through a school district. THE QUALIFYING WAR ERAS ARE NOT ESTABLISHED from the sources reviewed; secondary sources point to WWII, Korea and Vietnam, and we have not treated that as settled. Ring the hotline and ask.
VeteransApplies statewideA high school diploma awarded by the Veterans Commission
Read it and check if you qualifyFree Day Use and Camping for Life at 50% — and the Hangtag Moves Between Cars
A Wyoming resident veteran with a service-connected disability of 50% OR MORE gets FREE DAY USE AND CAMPING FOR LIFE at Wyoming state parks, recreation areas and historic sites. It is issued as a HANGTAG USABLE IN ANY VEHICLE as long as the pass holder is present — so it is not tied to one car, which matters if you travel with family or change vehicles. Apply online with proof of residency and VA certification of the disability percentage.
VeteransApplies statewideFree day use and camping for life at state parks, recreation areas and historic sites
Read it and check if you qualifyNo Hunter Safety Certificate Required — Any Veteran or Serving Member
Wyoming ordinarily requires anyone BORN AFTER 1 JANUARY 1966 to hold a certificate of competency and safety in the handling of firearms before hunting. ANY ACTIVE MEMBER, HONORABLY DISCHARGED PAST MEMBER, OR VETERAN of the U.S. armed forces is EXEMPT. No rating, no wartime service, no residency of long standing — service itself is the qualification. Claim it by submitting the WGFD Hunter Education Exemption Application with military documentation.
VeteransApplies statewideExemption from the hunter education certificate requirement
Read it and check if you qualifyA Free Fishing Licence for Veterans in Hospital or at the Veterans' Home
Wyoming issues a free fishing licence for INSTITUTIONALLY SUPERVISED FISHING to a resident of the VETERANS' HOME OF WYOMING, or to a veteran HOSPITALISED AT A VA HOSPITAL WITHIN WYOMING. It may be issued by any VA hospital in the state, by the Wyoming Department of Health or by Game and Fish. It is a small, specific provision aimed at supervised outings from a facility — and it exists precisely for people who are least able to go and buy a licence themselves.
VeteransApplies statewideA free fishing licence for institutionally supervised fishing
Read it and check if you qualifyFree Lifetime Bird, Small Game and Fish — 100% or Purple Heart
Two alternative routes, not two conditions. An honorably discharged resident veteran who is 100% disabled per the VA qualifies; so, separately, does any Purple Heart recipient with an honorable discharge. Either way the licences — lifetime game bird, small game and fish — are issued without charge, and either way Wyoming residency of not less than one year is required and the licences stay valid only while residency holds.
VeteransApplies statewideLifetime game bird, small game and fish licences at no charge
Read it and check if you qualifyFree Lifetime Fishing at 50% — Against a $309 Licence
A resident veteran receiving 50% or more service-connected disability compensation, and resident in Wyoming for not less than one year, gets the lifetime fishing licence without payment of any fee — the same licence the fee schedule prices at $309.
VeteransApplies statewideLifetime fishing licence free — the schedule price is $309
Read it and check if you qualifyInterview Preference Plus 5% — Doubling at Just 10% Disability
Every public department gives veterans and surviving spouses a preference before the interview stage. On scored applications the advantage is 5% — and 10% for a veteran with a service-connected disability of ten percent or more, one of the lowest disabled-tier gates anywhere.
VeteransApplies statewide5% scoring advantage at initial employment; 10% with a service-connected disability of 10%+
Read it and check if you qualifyFree Tuition for Overseas Combat Veterans — a Medal, Not a Rating
An honorably discharged veteran who was a resident for a year before entering service and holds an armed forces expeditionary medal or authorized campaign medal from a foreign armed conflict attends the University of Wyoming or any community college with tuition free — eight semesters within eight years.
VeteransApplies statewideTuition free at UW and the community colleges — 8 semesters in an 8-year window, capped at the UW undergraduate rate
Read it and check if you qualifyDisabled Veteran Plate — Registration Fees Waived at 50%
A resident veteran receiving 50% or more service-connected disability compensation applies through the county treasurer for the distinctive disabled veteran plate — and one vehicle a year carries it exempt from the registration fees. A second plate for a motorcycle or multipurpose vehicle is allowed at the regular fees.
VeteransApplies statewideOne pair of plates a year exempt from registration fees — passenger car, pickup, motorcycle or multipurpose vehicle
Read it and check if you qualifyExpedited Licence and Free Temporary Permits — Thirty Days, and Volunteer Hours Count
A licensing board must issue an expedited licence within thirty days to a service member or military spouse who has held a licence elsewhere for five years — with no application needed at all. Three years buys a free 90-day temporary licence while the file is reviewed, and a temporary practice permit can run three years. A board may charge nothing for either permit.
VeteransApplies statewideExpedited licence in thirty days on five years of out-of-state licensure; free 90-day temporary licence on three years; free temporary practice permit up to three years
Read it and check if you qualifyThe State Veterans Home — Assisted Living and Skilled Nursing, and Dependents Are Admitted Too
The home outside Buffalo runs two levels of care: assisted living, the original domiciliary, and skilled nursing in three single-room cottages on the same grounds, opened in October 2022. For the assisted living side the admission test is economic — being unable to earn a living, or having no adequate means of support. Dependents of qualified veterans are admitted, and non-veterans may be admitted when the home is under 90% full. Fees are set on ability to pay.
VeteransApplies statewideAssisted living or skilled nursing, with room, meals, laundry, nursing, social services, activities and weekday transport in one monthly maintenance fee set on ability to pay
Read it and check if you qualifyThe State Veterans Cemetery — No Charge for the Plot, No Charge to Inter the Veteran, a Fee for the Spouse
Any discharge other than dishonorable qualifies you for burial at the state veterans cemetery at Evansville. The statute says plainly there is no charge for a plot and no charge for the interment of an eligible veteran. A spouse or handicapped or minor child may join you in the same plot, above or below — but that interment is charged at a fee set to cover its actual cost.
VeteransApplies statewideNo charge for the burial plot and no charge for the veteran's interment; a grave vault is provided free for casket burials; family interment is charged at actual cost
Read it and check if you qualifyThe County's Duty to Bury: $1,500 for the Burial, $500 to Move the Body
Where a veteran dies leaving too little to pay for a funeral, the county commissioners must prepare the body, transport it to the veterans cemetery and bury it. The statute caps the burial at $1,500 and the transport at $500 — and calls this a payment of last resort, which is a phrase worth reading before you spend a family's savings.
VeteransApplies statewideUp to $1,500 for the burial and up to $500 for transporting the body, paid by the county from its general funds
Read it and check if you qualifyGuard Tuition — 100% at the Public Institutions, $1,500 a Term Anywhere Else
A serving Guard member pays no in-state tuition and no mandatory fees at the state university, the community colleges or the law enforcement academy. At a private institution in the state the plan pays up to $1,500 for a full-time semester period instead. Three payments a year, and the total from every source cannot pass 100% of the bill.
VeteransApplies statewide100% of in-state tuition and mandatory fees at the public institutions; up to $1,500 per full-time semester period at an approved private institution in the state
Read it and check if you qualifyThe Military Assistance Trust Fund — Emergency Grants, and 39 Days of Child Care
One fund doing two jobs. It makes emergency grants to service members and families in financial hardship arising directly from state or federal military duty, and separately reimburses dependent care for up to 39 calendar days a year for a member in a duty status. The second half is the one almost nobody claims.
VeteransApplies statewideEmergency grants for hardship arising directly from military duty; dependent care reimbursed for up to 39 calendar days a year
Read it and check if you qualifyThe Referral Bonus — $500 Now, $1,000 From July 2026
The state pays a Guard member, a recruit, a retired member or a military department employee for a successful recruitment referral. The payment is $500 and doubles to $1,000 on 1 July 2026, with eligibility widening at the same date. It is taxable income and is reported as such.
VeteransApplies statewide$500 for a successful recruitment referral, rising to $1,000 on 1 July 2026
Read it and check if you qualifyYour DD214 Is Probably Held in Cheyenne
The state military department holds the discharge document of every veteran who listed this state as their home of record at separation, and the records of Guard veterans and retirees. That makes a lost DD214 a local phone call rather than a federal request that can take months.
VeteransApplies statewideA copy of your DD214 from the state records office where this state was your home of record at separation; Guard and retiree records also held
Read it and check if you qualifyA Custody Order Changed for Deployment Must Say It Is Temporary — On Its Face
Where duty, deployment or mobilisation orders move a service member a substantial distance, an existing custody or visitation order may only be modified TEMPORARILY. The order must state that military service is the basis and that it is temporary, and the court must consider whether it should terminate automatically. When the question returns after homecoming, the deployment and the disruption it caused are neutral factors and cannot alone justify a permanent change.
VeteransApplies statewideTemporary-only modification of custody or visitation on military orders, an order that must state its military basis on its face, delegated visitation to a close family member, an expedited hearing on request, and testimony by telephone, video or internet
Read it and check if you qualifyNo State Lease-Termination Right — Only the Federal Act Applies
The residential rental article of this state's code runs from definitions through owners' and renters' duties, deposits, remedies and eviction. There is no military provision anywhere in it — no active duty, no deployment, no permanent change of station. A service member ending a lease here relies on the federal Servicemembers Civil Relief Act alone, and the federal Act is also what forbids an early-termination charge.
VeteransApplies statewideNo state lease-termination provision for service members — the federal Act stands alone here
Read it and check if you qualifyThe Commission Runs Rides to VA Appointments — Nine Counties, Plus Five Other Grantees
The state veterans commission holds a federal highly rural transportation grant covering nine counties, and it employs a named rural transportation coordinator at Cheyenne to run it. Five other grantees cover more ground: a regional transit operator for Johnson and Niobrara, a tribal transportation authority for Fremont, and senior centres for Goshen, Hot Springs and Washakie. The rides are free and go to VA-authorised health appointments. The test is where you live — a county with fewer than seven people per square mile.
VeteransApplies statewideFree transport to VA-authorised health appointments, run by the state veterans commission across nine counties and by five other grantees elsewhere
Read it and check if you qualifyNo Veterans Treatment Court — Treatment and Diversion Courts, but None for Veterans
Nearly every state in this corpus has at least one veterans treatment court. This one does not. The judicial branch publishes its treatment and diversion courts in full: treatment courts running to standards adopted on 1 July 2024, and behavioural health diversion courts at Campbell, Laramie and Natrona. No veterans court, veterans track or veterans docket appears anywhere on that page, and none appears on the branch’s own veterans legal-help page either.
VeteransApplies statewideNo veterans treatment court is published by the judicial branch — the route is a general treatment or diversion court
Read it and check if you qualifyNo State Veteran Business Certification or Bid Preference — Every Route Is Federal
The veterans commission publishes a benefits booklet with a chapter headed transition, employment and business opportunities. Every single item in it is federal or national: the small business administration’s entrepreneurship course, its express loan fee waiver, its disaster loan for reservists, its surety bond programme, a national counselling charity and the state small business development centres. There is no state veteran-owned business certification, no state bid preference for veteran-owned firms, and nothing agricultural for veterans anywhere in the booklet.
VeteransApplies statewideNo state veteran business certification and no state bid preference — the published routes are all federal
Read it and check if you qualifyGold Star Plates — Grandparents Count, and the Plate Is Not Free
Wyo. Stat. § 31-2-229 opens distinctive gold star plates to the parents, grandparents, spouse, children or siblings of a member of the armed forces who died in service or as a result of service. Eligibility is certified by the Wyoming veterans’ commission, the plates are issued by the county treasurer, and the statute routes the applicant through the $30 personalised-plate fee.
VeteransApplies statewideA distinctive plate at the $30 personalised-plate fee, plus the ordinary registration fees
Read it and check if you qualifyArmed Forces, Purple Heart and Guard Plates — $20 to the Commission, and a Woman Veteran Decal
Wyo. Stat. § 31-2-217 gives one set of special plates to a Pearl Harbor survivor, a Wyoming Army or Air National Guard member, a Purple Heart recipient or an honorably discharged veteran, with the branch of service named on the armed forces plate. The same section carries a decal designating an honorably discharged woman veteran, which attaches to the lower left corner of the plate.
VeteransApplies statewide$20 application fee to the Wyoming veterans’ commission for an armed forces plate, plus the $30 plate fee and ordinary registration
Read it and check if you qualifyA "V" on Your Wyoming Licence — Armed Forces Documentation, Honorable Discharge Only
Wyo. Stat. § 31-7-141 requires the department to print a "V" or the word "Veteran" on the face of a Wyoming driver’s licence or identification card once the applicant supplies documentation issued by the armed forces that they are an honorably discharged veteran.
VeteransApplies statewideA "V" or "Veteran" printed on the face of your licence or identification card
Read it and check if you qualifyDisabled Parking in Wyoming — a Medical Test With No Veteran Route, and the DV Plate Does Not Park
Wyo. Stat. § 31-2-213 was read in full this session. The placard turns on a practitioner’s letter and a twelve-month walking impairment, and there is no veteran shortcut anywhere in it. The disabled veteran plate under § 31-2-215 carries no international symbol of access, which is what the section defines a parking plate as.
VeteransApplies statewideNot a veteran benefitNo veteran route into disabled parking — the test is medical, and a rating letter is not a substitute
Read it and check if you qualify
Does my county change the answer?
For the statewide records, no — the same law applies in all 23 counties. What changes is the office you file with and the local tax arithmetic, which we do not yet hold for Wyoming.
- Albany County
- Big Horn County
- Campbell County
- Carbon County
- Converse County
- Crook County
- Fremont County
- Goshen County
- Hot Springs County
- Johnson County
- Laramie County
- Lincoln County
- Natrona County
- Niobrara County
- Park County
- Platte County
- Sheridan County
- Sublette County
- Sweetwater County
- Teton County
- Uinta County
- Washakie County
- Weston 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.