Illinois Department of Veterans Affairs — Veteran Service Officers

Network of 92 county-level offices, each staffed by a state-accredited County Veteran Service Officer, providing free help filing VA claims and appeals for disability compensation, pensions, DIC, health care, education, and burial benefits.

Category: Legal & Benefits

Eligibility: Indiana veterans, retired service members, and their families.

Iowa's state veterans agency, providing a statewide directory of County Veterans Service Offices in all 99 counties plus a benefits catalog covering the Iowa Veterans Home, Iowa Veterans Cemetery, Iowa Veterans Trust Fund, Injured Veterans Grant, homeownership assistance, and federal benefits navigation.

Category: Career & Education

Eligibility: Generally requires honorable discharge; varies per specific program.

Maryland state agency providing veterans, service members, and families assistance with VA and state benefits — health care, education, burial, housing, recreation, tax exemptions, motor-vehicle benefits, financial support, and claims filing via VA-accredited Benefits Services Specialists, including a network of liaisons across state government agencies.

Category: Legal & Benefits

Minnesota's largest nonprofit focused on ending Veteran homelessness, providing statewide outreach, case management, housing/deposit/rental assistance and housing subsidies, plus employment/training services and the Vetlaw pro-bono legal program for Veterans who are homeless or at risk of becoming homeless.

Category: Housing & Transportation

Eligibility: Any Veteran living in Minnesota (broad definition: anyone who served or is serving in a U.S. military branch, regardless of discharge status, including MN National Guard pre-basic-training members) and their immediate family/household members; fewer-than-honorable discharges reviewed case-by-case.