PTAX 343 Application for Disables Persons' Homestead Form

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hello this is Pat O'Connor with O'Connor & Associates in this video is part of a series on homestead exemptions and let's say due to a works that work-related injury or a recreational related injury you are disabled and unable to work and you were certified by the United States government is disabled in this case you are able to get an exemption that has the same benefits of the over-65 homestead exemption maybe you can't have both of them you can pick one or the other so if you're disabled and over 65 you can only pick one but they both have essentially the same characteristic they freeze the school taxes at the time they're put in place so clearly you need to get the value as low as possible that first year secondly you get the benefit of the county higher level of exemption that you would have for a homestead exemption so in Harris County again it's a hundred and sixty thousand dollar exemption so as more people in Harris County become 65 years of age there will be many more people