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The Over-65 or Disabled Person Homestead Exemption
An extra $60,000 off school taxes, plus whatever your county and city adopted — but "disabled" here means Social Security disabled, not VA rated.
Verified August 18, 2026
What this benefit is
An extra $60,000 off school taxes, plus whatever your county and city adopted — but "disabled" here means Social Security disabled, not VA rated.
What it's worth: $60,000 off your school district taxable value, plus any local option amount
- The $60,000 school district exemption under §11.13(c) is mandatory statewide.
- §11.13(d) lets any other taxing unit adopt its own exemption for the same group, at a minimum of $3,000 under §11.13(e). Whether your county, city or hospital district did is a local decision.
Who is entitled to it
- You own and occupy the property as your residence homestead.
- You are 65 or older.
- You are disabled for Social Security purposes, which is the test §11.13(m) uses.
- Your home is in Texas.
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 30- 1If you are claiming on disability rather than age, get your Social Security award letter. Your VA rating decision is not the document this exemption asks for.
- 2File Form 50-114 with your appraisal district.
- 3Ask which local taxing units adopted the optional §11.13(d) exemption — the school amount is fixed, the rest is not.
- Form
- 50-114
- File with
- Your county appraisal district
- Documents you will need
- proof of age or ssa disability award · tx drivers licence matching address
- Stays in place once granted
- Once granted it stays until the qualification changes. Tell the district if you move.
- A district may ask you to re-apply periodically to confirm you still qualify. Answer that letter.
This one unlocks
CorrectionThis exemption was $10,000 for many years and we published that figure. The Comptroller now states §11.13(c) as a $60,000 additional school district exemption, and §11.13(b)’s general school exemption as $140,000. Anything written against the old numbers — including our own earlier pages — understates this by six times.
CorrectionThe word "disabled" does not mean what a veteran expects it to mean here. §11.13(m) points at the federal Old-Age, Survivors, and Disability Insurance definition — Social Security disability. A VA combined rating, at any percentage including 100%, does not by itself satisfy it. Many veterans do draw SSDI and simply never connect the two.
Worth knowing§11.13(h) forbids taking both the disabled and the over-65 exemption from the SAME taxing unit in the same year — you choose. It does not stop you holding this alongside a veteran exemption under §11.22 or §11.131, which are separate provisions.
Worth knowingThe real prize is not the $60,000. It is that qualifying here is what opens the §11.26 school tax ceiling, which compounds every year afterwards.
Sources
- authority · statuteTex. Tax Code §11.13(c), (d), (e), (h), (m)
- operating · published policyTexas Comptroller — Property Tax Exemptions
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