CONCORD — State aid with property taxes, which averaged about $163 per receiving household last year, is available for homeowners with lower incomes in New Hampshire via an assistance program. Homeowners have to qualify, and apply, by the end of June.
New Hampshire’s Low- and Moderate-Income Homeowners Property Tax Relief Program provides assistance for individual homeowners who earn less than $37,000 annually, as well as to married couples or heads of households who earn less than $47,000. These thresholds were raised in 2021 after two decades without adjustments since the program’s inception in 2001. However, these updated thresholds are also not adjusted for inflation automatically, and have not been increased since the 2021 revisions.
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