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A VA-Adapted Home: No Income Limit, No Value Limit, No Ceiling At All

Where the VA substantially contributed to a home for a paraplegic or multiple-amputee veteran, Nebraska exempts that homestead with NO INCOME LIMIT AND NO HOMESTEAD VALUE LIMIT. Every other Nebraska homestead category is bounded by one or both. A surviving spouse is covered. The catch is administrative and annual: VA certification must be filed with Form 458 EVERY YEAR between 1 February and 30 June, and you must own and occupy from 1 January to 15 August.

Verified August 27, 2026

What this benefit is

Where the VA substantially contributed to a home for a paraplegic or multiple-amputee veteran, Nebraska exempts that homestead with NO INCOME LIMIT AND NO HOMESTEAD VALUE LIMIT. Every other Nebraska homestead category is bounded by one or both. A surviving spouse is covered. The catch is administrative and annual: VA certification must be filed with Form 458 EVERY YEAR between 1 February and 30 June, and you must own and occupy from 1 January to 15 August.

What it's worth: Homestead exemption with no income limit and no value limit

  • NO INCOME LIMIT AND NO HOMESTEAD VALUE LIMIT — unique among Nebraska's homestead categories.
  • The veteran must be a qualified PARAPLEGIC or MULTIPLE AMPUTEE.
  • The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs must have SUBSTANTIALLY CONTRIBUTED to the homestead.
  • A SURVIVING SPOUSE is covered.
  • VA certification must be filed with FORM 458 ANNUALLY between 1 February and 30 June — not once.
  • Own and occupy from 1 JANUARY TO 15 AUGUST.
  • Position confirmed against the Department of Revenue guide dated February 2026.

Who is entitled to it

  • You are in one of the groups this reaches.
  • You are paraplegic or a multiple amputee.
  • The VA contributed substantially to the home.
  • This is the home you own and live in.
  • Nebraska property.

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: 1 February to 30 June, every year
  1. 1File Form 458 with your county assessor between 1 February and 30 June, EVERY YEAR.
  2. 2Get the VA certification each year too. This category does not use the every-five-years cycle that others do.
  3. 3If the home was adapted with VA help, say so specifically — the exemption turns on the VA's contribution as well as the disability.
  4. 4A surviving spouse should keep filing. The exemption does not end with the veteran.
  5. 5Do not take a lower category by default if this one fits — it is the only one with no ceiling.
Form
Form 458 with annual VA certification
File with
Your county assessor
Documents you will need
va benefit summary letter
Annual
Claimed once a year.
Worth knowingThe annual certification is the thing that catches people. Missing a year does not end the entitlement but it does lose that year's exemption.

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