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Three Tiers to a Full Exemption

The 2022 amendment tiers it: $100,000 of value protected at 50–69%, $120,000 at 70–99%, and the whole homestead at 100% or unemployability — exempt from all ad valorem taxation except for certain municipal tax assessments.

Verified August 27, 2026

What this benefit is

The 2022 amendment tiers it: $100,000 of value protected at 50–69%, $120,000 at 70–99%, and the whole homestead at 100% or unemployability — exempt from all ad valorem taxation except for certain municipal tax assessments.

What it's worth: Tiered: $100,000 at 50–69%, $120,000 at 70–99%, everything at 100%/IU

  • In assessed-value terms the tiers add $2,500 and $4,500 to the standard $7,500 homestead exemption; the 100%/IU tier exempts the remaining assessed value entirely.
  • The state veterans department qualifies the 100% tier: exempt from all ad valorem taxation EXCEPT for certain municipal tax assessments. 'Everything' is not quite everything.
  • The tiers are confirmed current on the department's statewide page: $2,500 additional assessed value at 50-69%, $4,500 at 70-99%, and full exemption at 100%.

Who is entitled to it

  • Your rating meets the gate.
  • You own and occupy the home.
  • Your home is in this state.

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. 1Take the VA rating letter to the parish assessor and claim the tier your rating carries.
  2. 2If you are paid at 100% through unemployability, claim the full tier — the amendment names unemployability in terms.
  3. 3A surviving spouse who stays in and owns the home keeps the exemption, even where the veteran never claimed it.
Form
VA rating letter to the assessor
File with
Your parish assessor
Documents you will need
va benefit summary letter
No renewal
Once granted it does not need renewing.
CorrectionGuidance written before 2023 shows only a double homestead exemption for 100% veterans. The 2022 amendment (effective 2023) created the three-tier structure and added the unemployability route to the full tier.
Worth knowingThe tiers stack ON TOP of the standard $7,500-assessed homestead exemption — the headline dollar figures are market-value equivalents of that stacking.

Sources

Why only one source type: Parish assessors administer the exemption; the Ascension Parish page states the tiers, the stacking on the homestead exemption and the survivor rule in terms.

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