Veteran Services

Mission

The mission of the Veterans Services Department is to aid and assist all Veterans, their widows or spouses, and/or their dependent children, in the Town of Oxford through the Veterans Administration and Massachusetts Department of Veterans Services, with quality financial and medical assistance in accordance with Massachusetts General Law Chapter 115 and CMR 108.

State Benefits

• Sales and Excise Tax - Certain disabled veterans are eligible for motor vehicle sales and excise tax exemptions. Contact the Assessor's office.
• Massachusetts Veterans' Cemeteries - There are two State cemeteries (Agawam and Winchendon) that are available for the commonwealth's deceased veterans, spouses, and dependents.
• Veterans Affairs National Cemetery - The Massachusetts National Cemetery is located in Bourne, Massachusetts. Phone contact is 508-563-7113.
• Annuity - There is a $2,000 annuity available for 100% service-connected disabled veterans, parents of a son or daughter, and spouses whose husband or wife died as a result of an injury sustained or disease contracted during active service in time of war, insurrection, or combat.
• Employment - Veterans are given preference for employment for civil service positions or appointment to eligible Federal positions.
• Women Veterans - Department of Veterans Services has a Women's Veterans Network Program whose mission is to provide women veterans with information on benefits, expand awareness of the needs of woman veterans, and to identify available health and human resources to meet those needs, and to advocate on behalf of women veterans.