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A veteran with a service-connected total and permanent disability pays no property tax on the homestead, and there are other property tax breaks for veterans, in the answer on them.
A Veteran designation on the Florida driver license or ID card is free: bring a DD Form 214, a VA health identification card or a VA veteran identification card, and a replacement license only to add it costs nothing. A 100 percent disabled veteran can get a DV license plate at no charge, and the state offers many military specialty plates.
Florida State Parks give veterans 25 percent off annual passes, and veterans with service-connected disabilities a free lifetime family pass. A Florida resident veteran with a service-connected disability of 50 percent or more gets a free 5-year hunting and fishing license. An honorably discharged veteran who lives in Florida while enrolled pays in-state tuition at the state's colleges and universities.
The state runs nine veterans' homes: skilled nursing homes in Daytona Beach, Land O' Lakes, Pembroke Pines, Panama City, Port Charlotte, St. Augustine, Port St. Lucie and Orlando, and an assisted living domiciliary in Lake City, for veterans with an honorable discharge who lived in Florida before admission. Each county's veteran service office helps with claims free of charge. The Florida Veterans Support Line is 1-844-MyFLVet (1-844-693-5838); in a crisis, call 988 and press 1.
01Yes, in addition to the homestead exemption, and every one is applied for at the county property appraiser by March 1 of the year, with late filing allowed within 25 days after the appraiser mails its notices.
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02Florida has seven VA medical centers, in Bay Pines, Gainesville, Lake City, Miami, Orlando, Tampa and West Palm Beach.
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03Yes. The Individual Annual Entrance Pass is $60 and the Family Annual Entrance Pass $120, good for one year from the month you buy it; the family pass lets in up to eight people entering together.
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04Yes, from the ages of 16 to 64, residents and visitors alike, with permits for what and where you hunt.
Read the answer →Tallahassee, in Leon County in North Florida, has been the capital since 1824.
About 23.4 million. The Florida Legislature, using the University of Florida's estimates, counted 23,379,261 people on April 1, 2025, up from 21,538,187 in the 2020 Census.
On March 3, 1845, as the 27th state. Spain founded St. Augustine in 1565, the first permanent European settlement in Florida, and the United States acquired Florida from Spain as a territory in 1821.
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