Fulton County, Indiana

Due to the ongoing identity theft crisis, the DD214 is a confidential document.

Compensation - A monthly benefit depending upon rating percentage, with additional amounts for dependents of veterans with a 30 percent rating and above.

Montgomery GI Bill (Active Duty) The Montgomery GI Bill (Active Duty) provides a program of education benefits to individuals who enter active duty for the first time after June 30, 1989, and receive an honorable discharge.

A disabled veteran may receive employment assistance, self-employment assistance, training in a rehabilitation facility, and college and other training.

VA loan guaranties - to be used for the purchase of homes, condominiums and manufactured for refinancing loans - are made to service members, veterans, reservists and surviving spouses who have not remarried.

VA cemeteries Burial benefits in a VA National Cemetery include the grave site, a headstone or marker, opening and closing of the grave, and perpetual care.

Educational assistance benefits are available to spouses who have not remarried and children of: (1) veterans who died or are permanently and totally disabled as the result of a disability arising from active military service; (2) veterans who died from any cause while rated permanently and totally disabled from service-connected disability; (3) service members listed for more than 90 days as currently missing in action or captured in line of duty by a hostile force; (4) service members listed for more than 90 days as currently detained or interned by a foreign government or power.

Remission of fees for the children of a disabled veteran The natural or legally adopted children of a disabled veteran may be eligible for remission of fees at any state-supported post secondary school or university in the State of Indiana.

The Indiana Department of Veterans Affairs and the Indiana State Archives have copies of DD-214's on file for many Hoosier veterans who entered the service from Indiana.

The Indiana Veterans Home in West Lafayette provides nursing and domiciliary care for any Hoosier veteran with at least one-day of wartime service.

Each county auditor is authorized to pay up to an amount not to exceed $100 for the burial of a veteran or the veteran's spouse and to pay up to $100 for the setting of a federal headstone. Veterans must have received an honorable discharge, and a application must be filed Ref: IC 10-5-3-1.