Filing the Lenawee Disabled Veteran Exemption: Assessor or County Equalization
Michigan's disabled veteran homestead exemption is claimed with the city or township assessor, but Lenawee's Veterans Affairs page also takes Form 5107 at the county Equalization Department and says the claim is due before December 31 and, from 2026, once for all; the Equalization FAQ still says it is annual and due by the Monday before the March Board of Review, so both county texts are recorded and the assessor is the safe door.
Also called: disabled veteran exemption, Form 5107, Form 6054, property tax exemption, equalization, assessor, board of review, March, December 31, surviving spouse, Adrian, Tecumseh, Onsted, Blissfield, Hudson, Clinton, Morenci, Deerfield.
The claim. The exemption itself is the State's (MCL 211.7b; see the Michigan entries on the disabled veteran exemption and its audit and denial). What is local is where and when to file, and the county's two pages say different things.
The Veterans Affairs page. A qualifying disabled veteran - VA-determined permanently and totally disabled at the 100 percent rate, specially adapted housing assistance, or rated individually unemployable - or the unremarried surviving spouse (whose claim the page says continues after the veteran's death, including on homestead property bought later, unless the spouse remarries) files Form 5107, Affidavit for Disabled Veterans Exemption, "with their local Assessing Department at their municipality or the Equalization Department before Dec. 31 in the year in which the exemption is requested", with the VA documentation. The page adds that "Until 2026, it is necessary to apply for this exemption annually... Beginning in 2026, exemptions which were previously granted will remain in place until rescinded by the property owner or denied by the assessing unit", and points at Form 6054 to rescind within 45 days of losing the homestead use or the qualification, with taxes, penalties and interest (current year plus three) if the exemption is denied.
The Equalization page. Its own answer to "How often does the Disabled Veterans Exemption have to be filed?" still reads: "Per state requirements the Disabled Veterans Exemption Affidavit and supporting documentation has to be filed annually. These documents should be filed between January 1st and the Monday before the March Board of Review."
Reading the two together. The county's VA page quotes the current state rule (the annual refiling ended with tax year 2025); the Equalization FAQ predates it and gives the March Board of Review window instead of December 31. Nothing in this county's paper resolves the conflict, so a veteran should file with the municipality's assessor as soon as the VA letter is in hand, treat the Monday before the March Board of Review as the working deadline, and keep the Equalization Department's acceptance ([email protected]) as the county-level route its page offers. The 2026 Equalization Report names no veteran practice, and the exemption remains a local-assessor benefit the county equalizes.
Thresholds
Thresholds for Filing the Lenawee Disabled Veteran Exemption: Assessor or County Equalization
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Rule
100 percent permanent and total, or unemployability, or adapted-housing aid
The State defines the three VA routes and the surviving-spouse rule; the county adds only where and when to file, and its two pages give different dates.
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