Pennsylvania Real Estate Tax Exemption for Disabled Veterans
Program at a Glance
- Location: Pennsylvania (statewide, through your county Director of Veterans Affairs)
- Status: Open; the state page lists no deadline
- Maximum benefit: Real estate tax exemption on your principal home (the state page doesn’t give a dollar amount)
- Who it’s for: Pennsylvania veterans who served in wartime with a 100% permanent service-connected disability, and their surviving spouses
- How to apply: Contact the County Director of Veterans Affairs where you live
- Last verified: November 2026
About the Program
This one has more conditions than most. You need an honorable or under-honorable-conditions discharge, wartime service as the VA defines it, and a 100% permanent service-connected disability, total disability based on unemployability, or service-connected blindness, paraplegia, or loss of two or more limbs. The home has to be your main residence. There is also a need test. An income of $114,637 or less is presumed to show need, and above that you have to show your monthly costs are more than your household income. That level went up on January 1, 2025, so a veteran who was turned down before may want to apply again. Applications go through the county, and the state asks you not to email forms or personal details.
Official source: Pennsylvania Department of Military and Veterans Affairs: Real estate tax exemption
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Last checked Nov 10, 2026.