served in army for three yrs but doesn't qualify....

[what was i thinking]

it is there...

 

[Mac in Wisco]

There are two different property tax credits available for NY veterans. The first is for veterans who served in wartime or earned an expeditionary medal. The second is for Cold War veterans (which your husband would qualify for), but the state of New York leaves it up to the individual municipalities as to whether or not they will honor these credits.

Check with your local treasurer again and mention the second part for Cold War veterans, and be sure to provide a code cite. Our township treasurer is an idiot and can't look up any or interpret anything on her own. She will call the town clerk, the county treasurer, and state dept of revenue and ask them how she is supposed to do her job rather than just pick up her copy of the state tax code and actually read it. I'm still trying to get a state lottery tax credit that is owed to me, but she can't be troubled to actually read the instructions.

http://www.orps.state.ny.us/pamphlet/exempt/vets.htm#coldwar

 

[redhen]

you're awesome Mac...

 

[what was i thinking]

thank you soo much for that link that is just what i am looking for.
now another question.
please don't beat me up over this question. i join the army for 8 reserves. i took my oaths and everything but i had delayed entry. during that time my mother got very sick and was considered totally disabled. i had to be discharged, i couldn't just say i wasn't going, because i had taken the oaths and signed and initialed 64 times, i had to be discharged. at that time i was told i qualified as being in the service... like for applications and things if it asked... i never say i was. anyway, i don't have a dd214 i have a discharge order or something like that giving me proof of discharge. now i was discharged in 1992. that would make me during war time, panama and somalia. that is where my friends from high school ended up. i think that is worth trying for, what do you think?

eta: i don't have a dd214 because of not enough active duty. what i have is a discharge order.

 

[Mac in Wisco]

That's kind of stretching it. I don't know how your discharge order is worded, but you may be able to convince somebody to accept it, if you don't go into too much detail.

 

[cw]

it aint like you didnt try, thats more then a lot of people would do.

 

[what was i thinking]

and continue to try, now that MAC gave me some more "ammo" to use.

 

[Celeste]

Quote:
While I do agree that those in public service deserve "breaks" as well, I do have to point out that in those service areas you can quit when you want to/if you need to. In the military there is no quitting until the contract is up even if you change your mind cause you didn't know what it was all about. That said....if you serve your country in any public service way you deserve kudos for all that you do and any breaks $$ wise that are available.

 

[Mac in Wisco]

I was searching the web looking at delayed enlistment info and I can't believe the amount of anti-recruiting sites out there. According to them every recruiter is a liar. There are much better things high school graduates should be doing with their lives. You really don't get all of them education benefits. Uncle Sam is out to get you... Yada, yada, yada...

I have served for 20 years and enjoyed all of it. I've had a pay check every pay period since I was 18, no lay offs here. Full medical and dental coverage for the entire family, always. For the most part I've worked a 40 hour week interspersed with temporary duty assignments and a few deployments. I've seen the world, good and bad. If I had to do it all over again I would in a heartbeat. Now, after 20 years, I get to retire with a $22,000 a year pension, with cost of living increases annually, for the rest of my life.

The anti-military media always portrays the average military person as a gun-toting, 20 year old, ground pounder. I served as an "Electrical Powerline Specialist", a linesman, for 16 years, and then took a job as a Flight Engineer on C-130 cargo aircraft for the last four, a far cry from the stereotypical uneducated "child with a gun" portrait that a large part of the media portrays us as.

 

[cw]

one of the best jobs i ever had too
free room and board! cant find that any where else