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Disabled Veteran Homestead Exemption — $121,812
The largest dollar homestead exemption in this corpus, indexed to a federal figure — and reachable on a VA statutory award as well as on a 100% rating.
Verified August 18, 2026
What this benefit is
The largest dollar homestead exemption in this corpus, indexed to a federal figure — and reachable on a VA statutory award as well as on a 100% rating.
What it's worth: Up to $121,812 of assessed value exempted, for 2025
- The figure is indexed to the rate set by the US Secretary of Veterans Affairs and changes from year to year — $121,812 is the published 2025 amount.
- It applies to state, county, municipal and school taxes on the homestead, subject to how each county administers it.
Who is entitled to it
- You served in the U.S. armed forces.
- You were honorably discharged.
- You are VA-rated 100% totally disabled.
- You are rated below 100% but entitled to the 100% rate through unemployability, which Georgia accepts in terms.
- You receive a VA statutory award for loss or loss of use of hands or feet, or for loss of sight.
- You own the home and use it as your primary residence.
- Your home is in Georgia.
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
Deadline: April 1- 1Get a verification letter from the VA or the Georgia Department of Veterans Service — county tax commissioners generally want one of those rather than the raw rating decision.
- 2File the homestead exemption application with your county tax commissioner by 1 April.
- 3If you are below 100% but hold a statutory award for loss of use of hands or feet or loss of sight, say so explicitly. That is a separate route into the exemption and it is easy for a counter clerk to miss.
- Form
- Application for Homestead Exemption
- File with
- Your county tax commissioner
- Documents you will need
- va benefit summary letter · dd214 · gdvs verification letter
- Automatic until something changes
- Granted once and carried forward. You must report a change in ownership, occupancy or status.
Worth knowingThe exemption extends to an unremarried surviving spouse or to minor children, for as long as they continue to occupy the home as a residence.
Worth knowingThe Department of Revenue states the amount as the GREATER of $32,500 or the federal indexed figure. The indexed figure has been far larger for years, so the floor never bites in practice — but it is the reason the exemption cannot fall if the federal index ever does.
Worth knowingEligibility for federal assistance in acquiring housing under 38 U.S.C. §2101 is itself a route in. A veteran who received or qualified for the specially adapted housing grant should raise it.
Known gapThe Department of Veterans Service states that administration is "as interpreted by the tax commissioners of Georgia’s 159 counties". We have not researched how any individual county interprets it, and with 159 of them that variance is the single largest unknown in this record.
Known gapHB 52 would let an unremarried surviving spouse or minor children keep the exemption after relocating to another Georgia county. It needs a two-thirds vote and voter approval in November 2026, so it is not law and we do not publish it as one.
Sources
- authority · published policyGeorgia Department of Revenue — Property Tax Homestead Exemptions, "Disabled Veteran or Surviving Spouse", on O.C.G.A. §48-5-48
- operating · published policyGeorgia Department of Veterans Service — Disabled Veteran Homestead Tax Exemption
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