What Tarrant's Age and Disability Homestead Relief Covers

Texas has separate age and disability paths. For the age path, the owner must be 65 or older, own part of the home, and use it as the main home. For the disability path, Texas uses the Social Security disability standard. Benefits from another program do not prove the case by themselves. TAD's chief appraiser decides each application.

For 2026, school districts give a qualifying owner an extra $60,000 homestead exemption. A city, county, or other tax unit may choose its own age or disability exemption. That is why taxable value can change from one line of a bill to the next. A person who meets both paths cannot take both exemptions from the same tax unit.

The school tax ceiling generally keeps that district's yearly tax on the same home from going above the ceiling set by law. It does not freeze market value or the whole bill. New improvements can raise the ceiling. A county, city, or junior college has this kind of limit when it has adopted one.

File with TAD, not the Tarrant County Tax Office. TAD has an online form, charges no filing fee, and lists the ID and disability records to have ready. Call its exemption team at 817-284-4063. Texas gives an age or disability applicant one year from the date of qualification to apply. Once approved, the exemption covers the tax year in which the person qualified. Filing early gives TAD time to add it to the account.