Port Chester has become the first municipality in New York state to approve a new property tax exemption aimed at helping seriously disabled veterans remain in their homes.<\/p>\n
The Village\u2019s Board of Trustees voted unanimously to provide eligible permanently and totally disabled veterans with a 100% exemption from the village portion of their property taxes.<\/p>\n
For 82-year-old Vietnam veteran Tom Giorgi, the relief will make a significant difference.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019ll help me tremendously, financially, but also make me feel very good inside,\u201d Giorgi said.<\/p>\n
Giorgi was severely injured while serving in Vietnam and continues to live with the long-term effects of those injuries. He received a Silver Star for running through heavy fire to provide aid to his squad leader.<\/p>\n
The exemption was authorized through the New York state budget, but individual villages, towns and counties must vote to adopt it locally.<\/p>\n
Veterans advocate Chester Edwards said the exemption could be life-changing for older veterans struggling with rising expenses and property tax bills.<\/p>\n
\u201cSome of them are scrambling,\u201d Edwards said. \u201cThis big property bill can actually drain a lot of their funds. These guys served. They have mental and physical injuries that you can\u2019t even imagine.\u201d<\/p>\n
Eligible veterans must apply through the Town of Rye assessor\u2019s office.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Port Chester has become the first municipality in New York state to approve a new property tax exemption…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":312047,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,9,24,63,129,131,130],"class_list":["post-312046","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-the-bronx","tag-bronx","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-the-bronx","tag-the-bronx-headlines","tag-the-bronx-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312046","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=312046"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312046\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/312047"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=312046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=312046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=312046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}