SCHUMER: MORE THAN ONE IN THREE STATEN ISLAND VETS DON’T UTILIZE PROPERTY TAX BENEFITS – FEDS FAIL TO LET LOCALITIES KNOW VETS ARE RETURNING HOME & THEN VETS CAN’T BE NOTIFIED OF POTENTIAL TAX BREAKS AVAILABLE TO THEM

WASHINGTON, D.C. – April 5, 2013 – (RealEstateRama) — U.S. Senator Charles E. Schumer today launched a two-pronged plan to help ensure that veterans returning home to Staten Island from Iraq and Afghanistan are receiving critical benefits that will allow them to afford a home and live stable civilian lives. Schumer highlighted data that shows that more than one in three veterans on Staten Island have not applied for the property tax benefit for veterans that is available to them and worth hundreds of dollars a year, and a disconnect in communication between the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) and localities that administer federal and state benefits are to blame