Acting State Treasurer Robert A. Romano has
announced that the deadline for filing 2013 Homestead Benefit applications has been
extended from October 30 to December 31, 2015.
“To
be eligible for a benefit for calendar year 2013, you must be a New Jersey
resident who owned a principal residence on Oct. 1, 2013, and paid property
taxes on that home. You must also have reported $75,000 or less in New Jersey
gross income for 2013 or, if you were disabled or age 65 or older on Dec. 31,
2013, you must have reported gross income for 2013 of $150,000 or less.”
Most beneficiaries should receive a credit that
will be applied against one of the quarterly tax billings in 2016. Qualifying homeowners will only receive a
check if their home was a unit in a co-op or a continuing care retirement
community they no longer owned your home.
The state had totally skipped issuing a
Homestead Benefit one year – no Homestead Benefit applications were mailed out
in 2014, and no credits against property tax installments were issued in
2014. The credits that would normally
have been issued in 2014, based on 2012 information, were applied to the May 2015
real estate tax billing.
Click here for information on the program.
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