California · State benefits
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California's headline benefit is the Disabled Veterans' Property Tax Exemption: 100% service-connected disability (including TDIU paid at 100%) or blindness/loss of two limbs wipes out up to $180,671 of assessed value ($271,009 on the low-income version). Registration fees are waived for one vehicle at 100% mobility-impairing disability, former POWs, and Medal of Honor recipients. Dependents get college fee waivers at UC/CSU/community colleges, Guard members get up to 100% tuition, disabled-veteran-owned firms get contracting preference, and 50%+ rated veterans get reduced-fee fishing/hunting licenses plus a free lifetime state park pass. Eight Veterans Homes and three state veterans cemeteries serve residents. For help, call CalVet or your county veterans office.
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1. Property tax
2. License plate and registration
3. Education
4. Military retirement and state income tax
5. Hunting and fishing
6. Parks
7. Parking
8. Hiring preference
9. Tolls
10. Other
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