{"id":1350,"date":"2025-09-30T10:29:29","date_gmt":"2025-09-30T14:29:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sudbury.ma.us\/assessors\/?p=1350"},"modified":"2025-10-01T07:27:36","modified_gmt":"2025-10-01T11:27:36","slug":"fy-2026-senior-means-tested-exemption-applications","status":"public-archive","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sudbury.ma.us\/assessors\/2025\/09\/30\/fy-2026-senior-means-tested-exemption-applications\/","title":{"rendered":"FY 2026 Senior Means Tested Exemption Applications"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Important Filing Deadline: September 30, 2025<\/strong>.&nbsp; The FY 2026 Sudbury Means Tested Senior Exemption Application filing deadline is September 30, 2025. The Sudbury Means Tested Senior Exemption Program reduces real property taxes for some low to moderate-income senior citizens through a redistribution of the property tax burden within the residential class.&nbsp;&nbsp;The program requires residency in Sudbury for a minimum of 10 years prior to eligibility.&nbsp; Income limits for this program are established by the Massachusetts State Income Tax Refundable Credit known as the Circuit Breaker.&nbsp; Sudbury Seniors over age 65, who are income eligible for the circuit breaker income tax credit, and also meet the following criteria may be eligible for some property tax relief under this program.<\/p>\n<p><strong><u>Program Criteria<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Residency Requirement<\/strong>: 10 consecutive years in Sudbury. Must own and occupy the Sudbury property as their primary domicile.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Age:<\/strong>&nbsp;65 or older (any co-owners other than spouse must be at least 60 years of age).<\/li>\n<li><strong>Maximum Assessed Value<\/strong>: FY2025 maximum assessed valuation of the Sudbury home may be no more than $1,234,169.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Income Limits:&nbsp;<\/strong>per CY 2024&nbsp;<strong>Schedule CB<\/strong>&nbsp;<em>Circuit Breaker<\/em>&nbsp;Line 9<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>$72,000 or less for a single filer<\/p>\n<p>$109,000 or less for joint filers, or<\/p>\n<p>$91,000 or less for head of household filer.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Assets<\/strong>: The applicant must not own excessive assets that place them outside of the intended recipients of this exemption. Section 2 of Chapter 169 of the Acts of 2012 states that the Board of Assessors may deny an application if an applicant holds \u201cexcessive assets\u2019.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Application packets may&nbsp; be picked up at the Assessor\u2019s Office Flynn Building, 278 Old Sudbury Road). They are also available to download from the web see link below.<\/p>\n<p>This year\u2019s filing deadline is September 30, 2025.&nbsp; Completed application packets must be filed with the Assessor\u2019s Office on or before the deadline of September 30, 2025.&nbsp; Completed applications may be mailed, hand delivered to the Assessor\u2019s Office (278 Old Sudbury Road), or deposited in the drop box located in the Flynn Building parking lot (278 Old Sudbury Road). The box is located next to the U.S.P.S mailbox.&nbsp; If utilizing the drop box option, please label the envelope as follows: Assessors Office, Attn: Cynthia Gerry.&nbsp; If mailing, please send application and documentation to:<\/p>\n<p>Town of Sudbury<\/p>\n<p>Assessor\u2019s Office<\/p>\n<p>278 Old Sudbury Rd.<\/p>\n<p>Sudbury, MA 01776<\/p>\n<p>Attn: Cynthia Gerry<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;For questions or further information please contact Cynthia Gerry at the Assessor\u2019s Office 978-639-3395&nbsp;<a href=\"mailto:gerryc@sudbury.ma.us\">gerryc@sudbury.ma.us<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Important Filing Deadline: September 30, 2025.&nbsp; The FY 2026 Sudbury Means Tested Senior Exemption Application filing deadline is September 30, 2025. The Sudbury Means Tested Senior Exemption Program reduces real property taxes for some low &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sudbury.ma.us\/assessors\/2025\/09\/30\/fy-2026-senior-means-tested-exemption-applications\/\" aria-label=\"Read full article about FY 2026 Senior Means Tested Exemption Applications\">Read full article<span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudbury.ma.us\/assessors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1350"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudbury.ma.us\/assessors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudbury.ma.us\/assessors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudbury.ma.us\/assessors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudbury.ma.us\/assessors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1350"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/sudbury.ma.us\/assessors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1350\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1393,"href":"https:\/\/sudbury.ma.us\/assessors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1350\/revisions\/1393"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudbury.ma.us\/assessors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudbury.ma.us\/assessors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudbury.ma.us\/assessors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}