Extra Exemptions Your Town MAY Have Adopted — Ask Which
Connecticut authorises a set of additional property tax exemptions that each municipality decides whether to adopt. They are not entitlements: what you get depends entirely on your town. The options include up to $20,000 or 10% of assessed value for an income-qualified wartime veteran, at least $3,000 more for a disabled veteran, a tripled income-based amount for a 100%-rated veteran under the income limits, an exemption for one specially equipped vehicle, a full exemption of a specially adapted house, and — from 2025 — a full-exemption equivalent for TDIU-rated residents and a full exemption for surviving spouses of members killed in the line of duty.
Verified August 27, 2026
What this benefit is
Connecticut authorises a set of additional property tax exemptions that each municipality decides whether to adopt. They are not entitlements: what you get depends entirely on your town. The options include up to $20,000 or 10% of assessed value for an income-qualified wartime veteran, at least $3,000 more for a disabled veteran, a tripled income-based amount for a 100%-rated veteran under the income limits, an exemption for one specially equipped vehicle, a full exemption of a specially adapted house, and — from 2025 — a full-exemption equivalent for TDIU-rated residents and a full exemption for surviving spouses of members killed in the line of duty.
What it's worth: Whatever your town has adopted — nothing at all in a town that has adopted none
- These are LOCAL OPTIONS. A municipality may adopt them or not, and no amount here is an entitlement anywhere.
- CGS 12-81f(a): up to $20,000 or 10% of assessed value for an income-qualified wartime veteran.
- CGS 12-81f(b): at least $3,000 additional for a disabled veteran.
- CGS 12-81g(b): triple the income-based amount for a 100%-rated veteran with income under $21,000 single or $24,000 married.
- CGS 12-81h: an exemption for one specially equipped motor vehicle.
- CGS 12-81(21)(C): full exemption of a specially adapted house.
- PA 25-168 s.240: a full-exemption equivalent for TDIU-rated residents, where the town adopts it. This is the answer to a question the corpus previously recorded as open.
- PA 25-168 s.241: from 2025, a full exemption for surviving spouses of servicemembers killed in the line of duty, again at town option.
- No statewide dollar figure can be given, and this record deliberately gives none.
Who is entitled to it
- You are the veteran, or a surviving spouse.
- 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
- 1Ask your town assessor, by name, which of the municipal options it has adopted. There is no statewide list that will tell you.
- 2If you are TDIU-rated, ask specifically about PA 25-168 s.240 — a town that has adopted it gives you a full-exemption equivalent.
- 3If you are the surviving spouse of a member killed in the line of duty, ask about PA 25-168 s.241.
- 4If you have a specially equipped vehicle or a specially adapted house, ask about 12-81h and 12-81(21)(C) — those are easy to miss because they are not about the home's value.
- 5Do not assume a figure you read elsewhere applies to you. These amounts are your town's, and a neighbouring town may give nothing.
- Form
- Ask your town assessor which options it has adopted
- File with
- Your town assessor
- Documents you will need
- va benefit summary letter
- No renewal
- Once granted it does not need renewing.
Sources
- authority · published policyConnecticut OLR 2025-R-0131 — municipal-option veterans' exemptions
- operating · published policyConnecticut Office of Policy and Management
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