Hampton Disabled Veteran Real Estate Tax Exemption

This is how the City of Hampton applies the statewide disabled-veteran real estate exemption. The Commissioner of the Revenue takes the application in person, by appointment. There is no income test, and the veteran does not reapply unless the principal residence changes, though the office may ask for documents to reaffirm eligibility and must be told of changes in residence, disability status, ownership, or marital status. Hampton names the individual unemployability route: an overall rating of 100%, or payment at the 100% rate for individual unemployability, with VA finding the veteran permanently and totally disabled and no further examinations required. The VA documents have to be originals, not photocopies or faxes, and must give the effective dates of the 100% or unemployability rating and of the permanent and total finding. The page states the surviving spouse rule twice. One sentence says the spouse must continue "to occupy the real property as principal place of residence"; the next leaves that condition out. Section 58.1-3219.5(B) has let the spouse move without losing the exemption since 2019, so the second sentence is the right one.