ILLINOIS

Housing Benefits and Programs

• 4 Veteran Skilled Nursing Facilities
• The Prince Home for the Homeless & Disabled
• Welcome Home Heroes Homebuyer Financing Package
• Specially Adapted Housing Grants
• Tax Exemptions for Returning & Disabled Veterans
• Tax Exemption for Specially Adapted Housing

Financial Assistance Benefits

• World War II, Korean, Vietnam, Persian Gulf War and Global War on Terrorism Bonus Payments
• Vietnam and Global War on Terrorism Survivors Comp.
• Global War on Terrorism Survivors Compensation
• POW Compensation
• Military Family Relief Fund

Employment Benefits and Programs for Veterans

• Employment Search Assistance
• Unemployment Insurance Benefits
• State Government/Employment Preference
• Credit toward State Licenses
• Education Waiver for State Police & Conservation Police
• Specialized Training Programs & Entrepreneurial Seminars
• Veterans Business Program (preference for state contracts)
• Illinois Reemployment Rights

Education Benefits and Programs

• Illinois Veterans' Grant
• Illinois National Guard Grant
• Educational Opportunities for Children (10-18 Yrs)
• Children of Veterans Scholarship
• MIA/POW Scholarship
• Troops to Teachers

Other State Benefits and Programs

• Illinois Joining Forces
• Veterans Care (Health Care)
• Warrior Assistance Program (Health Care)
• Women Veterans Program
• Cartage and Erection Fees
• Graves Registration
• Indigent Veterans Burial Benefit
• 6 Veteran Treatment Courts
• Hunting and Fishing Privileges
• Camping and Admission Fee Exemptions
• CTA Military Pass
• Employment Resources for Businesses
• Veteran’s Tax Credit
• Illinois Hire Heroes Consortium

Illinois Department of Veterans' Affairs              

833 South Spring Street

P.O. Box 19432

Springfield, IL 62794-9432

Phone: 217-782-6641

www.veterans.illinois.gov

POC: Harry Sawyer

Phone: 317-814-2745

Email: harry.sawyer@illinois.gov

State Director: Erica J. Borggren

Phone: 217-785-4114

Email: idva.director@illinois.gov

National Guard TAA: Darlene Bertoni

Phone: 217-761-3382

Email: Darlene.m.bertoni.ctr@mail.mil