South Carolina · State benefits
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South Carolina exempts veterans who are totally and permanently disabled from a service-connected cause from all property tax on their home plus up to five acres, and from property tax on two private passenger vehicles. Military retirement pay and Survivor Benefit Plan (SBP) payments are free of state income tax. Totally disabled veterans get free hunting and fishing licenses (renewed every three years), reduced-rate state park admission, and special disabled veterans license plates with parking meter exemption. Honorably discharged veterans get preference for state and public jobs. Children of service members killed in the military or disabled, POW/MIA, Medal of Honor or Purple Heart recipients get free tuition at a state institution. Six state veterans nursing homes and the M.J.
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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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