Whiteside County Supervisor of Assessments: Veterans’ Homestead Exemptions

The Whiteside County Supervisor of Assessments, Crystal Updike, CIAO, at the courthouse in Morrison (815-772-5195), takes the applications for the State's veterans' homestead exemptions - the Returning Veteran's $5,000, the Disabled Veterans' Standard exemption's $2,500, $5,000 and full-exemption tiers, and the up-to-$100,000 specially-adapted-housing exemption, on a residence with an equalized assessed value under $250,000.

Also called: homestead exemption, Returning Veteran, Disabled Veterans Standard, specially adapted housing, Supervisor of Assessments, Crystal Updike, assessor, property tax, 35 ILCS 200/15-165, 35 ILCS 200/15-169, 200 E. Knox Street, 815-772-5195, Sterling, Rock Falls, Morrison, Prophetstown, Fulton, Erie.

For: Veteran or service member, survivor.

Where it applies

Written for the jurisdictions listed here.

Whiteside County, ILCounty

The exemptions are the State's; see the Illinois entries on 35 ILCS 200/15-165 and 15-169 for the routes and figures. The county's own Homestead Exemptions page publishes the tiers, in the county's words: - "Returning Veteran's Homestead Exemption: A $5,000 reduction in assessed value for veteran homeowners the year they return home from an armed conflict. Must be the owner of the record or have a legal interest in the property and occupy it as your principal residence on January 1 of the assessment year and are liable for the payment of the property taxes." - "Disabled Veterans' Standard Homestead Exemption: A reduction in the assessment of $2,500 for veteran homeowners with a service-related disability of 30% to 49%, a reduction in the assessment of $5,000 for veteran homeowners with a service-related disability of 50% to 69%, tax-exempt for veteran homeowners with a service-related disability of 70% to 100%. ... The exemption only applies to the residence, not farmland or farm buildings. The property's total equalized assessed value must be less than $250,000." - "Disabled Veteran's Homestead Exemption: A reduction in the assessment of up to $100,000 for veteran homeowners with service-related disabilities that require housing that is designed to accommodate the disability." The page closes: "Applications for all of the exemptions are available in the Supervisor of Assessments Office in the Courthouse in Morrison, Illinois." Where and who. Supervisor of Assessments Crystal Updike, CIAO, 200 E. Knox Street, Morrison, IL 61270; (815) 772-5195, fax (815) 772-5252; [email protected]; Monday to Friday 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. The office "maintains current property ownership, legal descriptions, and homestead and non-homestead exemptions", publishes the assessment changes made by the township assessors and the Board of Review, and schedules the Board of Review's hearings. Whiteside's assessment runs through township assessors - Sterling (Marcy Lawrence, 815-625-7410), Fulton and Albany/Garden Plain (Heidi Kolk, 779-809-0053), Prophetstown, Newton/Fenton/Portland (Melody VonHolten, 815-441-5278), Coloma (Dave Hand, 815-625-5953) and Erie (Kevin Urick, 309-945-3276) among them - but the exemption applications are the Supervisor of Assessments'. The Collector/Treasurer's page (815-772-5196) publishes no veteran text, so the amounts rest on the State entries and the tiers above.

Thresholds

Thresholds for Whiteside County Supervisor of Assessments: Veterans’ Homestead Exemptions
Gate	Rule
Service-connected disability of 30 percent or more, as VA finds it	The Standard exemption’s tiers run from 30 percent; the 70-to-100 tier is exempt. The Returning Veteran’s exemption needs no rating, only return from an armed conflict.

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