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A Property Tax Exemption for Every Wartime Veteran — No Disability Needed

Connecticut gives a $1,000 base assessment exemption to any veteran with 90 days or more of cumulative wartime service and an honorable discharge, and to veterans retired after 30 years of service. No disability is required. A mandatory income-based addition doubles it — 200% of the base where income is at or below the state threshold ($45,200 single, $55,100 married for 2025), 50% above. Most towns then multiply the amount by a revaluation increase factor.

Verified August 27, 2026

What this benefit is

Connecticut gives a $1,000 base assessment exemption to any veteran with 90 days or more of cumulative wartime service and an honorable discharge, and to veterans retired after 30 years of service. No disability is required. A mandatory income-based addition doubles it — 200% of the base where income is at or below the state threshold ($45,200 single, $55,100 married for 2025), 50% above. Most towns then multiply the amount by a revaluation increase factor.

What it's worth: $1,000 of assessment, doubled or halved by income, then multiplied by your town's revaluation factor

  • The base is a $1,000 assessment exemption. NO disability is required — 90 days or more of cumulative wartime service and an honorable discharge is the whole test.
  • Earlier separation for a service-connected disability counts, as does serving the full duration of an operation that lasted under 90 days.
  • Veterans retired after 30 years of service qualify without wartime service.
  • The income-based addition is MANDATORY, not a local option: 200% of the base where income is at or below the state threshold, 50% of the base above it.
  • The 2025 thresholds are $45,200 single and $55,100 married. The Office of Policy and Management resets them.
  • 126 of Connecticut's 169 towns then multiply the amount by a revaluation increase factor under CGS 12-62g, so the cash figure differs town by town.
  • A surviving spouse, sole surviving parent and minor child are eligible under CGS 12-81(19)-(25).
  • Because the town factor varies, no single statewide dollar saving can be stated.

Who is entitled to it

  • You are the veteran, or a surviving family member.
  • You served during a recognised period of war.
  • You were discharged honorably.
  • Your property is in Connecticut.

Not sure whether that describes you?

Answer a few questions about this benefit specifically — we only ask what this one actually depends on, and we stop as soon as we know.

How to claim it

  1. 1File with your TOWN assessor, and record your discharge with the town first if you have not — Connecticut exemptions run off the recorded discharge.
  2. 2Do not rule yourself out for lack of a disability. This exemption has no rating test at all.
  3. 3Give your income. The additional exemption is mandatory rather than optional, and it doubles the base where you are under the threshold — leaving income off costs you half of it.
  4. 4Ask the assessor what your town's revaluation increase factor is. It multiplies the amount and differs across 126 of the 169 towns.
  5. 5A surviving spouse, sole surviving parent or minor child should claim in their own right rather than assuming it ended with the veteran.
  6. 6If you also have a VA rating, ask about the disabled-veteran tiers — they are a different and usually larger exemption.
Form
Veteran exemption filing with the town assessor
File with
Your town assessor
Documents you will need
dd214
No renewal
Once granted it does not need renewing.

Sources

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