Ware Veterans’ Property Tax Exemptions (Clauses 22 to 22F)

The Town of Ware grants the veterans’ exemptions of G.L. c. 59, s. 5, clauses 22 to 22F, through its board of assessors. The statute sets them as dollars off the tax bill, $400 under clause 22, $750, $1,250 and $1,500 under 22A to 22C and $1,000 under 22E, and exempts the whole domicile under 22D and 22F; a town can add to them only by accepting a local option, clause 22I, clause 22J or section 5C½. Every figure on this entry carries its source and the day it was read. The Board of Assessors’ page names Gerald F. Fountain Jr the chairman, James Niquette and Michael Vadnais the members, at 126 Main Street, Suite G (413-967-9648, extension 179), where Kate Winkler is the Principal Assessor and Christina Benson the Administrative Assessor. The office’s Exemptions page posts a Document Center of brochures and applications whose Clause 22 items are the Commonwealth’s own - the generic veterans’ brochure on mass.gov and the state’s Form 96-4 - with no amount of the town’s own on any page, so the figures here are the statute’s; no acceptance of clause 22I or 22J was found on the town’s site. The Veteran’s Agent page names Mark A. Avis the Veteran’s Agent at 126 Main Street (413-967-9648, extension 115, Tuesdays and Thursdays 8 to noon), where the EOVS directory’s September 7, 2026 row lists Mark Avis at the same address (413-535-9235, [email protected]). The page describes the agent’s duty to advise and assist resident veterans and their dependents with federal and state benefits and to disburse the state’s chapter 115 program of financial and medical benefits. Chapter 115 benefits, the Commonwealth’s needs-based help with rent, food, fuel and medical costs, are applied for through Ware Veteran’s Agent: Mark A. Avis, Veteran’s Agent. Their amounts are set by the Commonwealth and are the same in every city and town; the statewide chapter 115 entry describes them.