New Jersey property tax relief deadline, 2027.

Homestead Benefit became ANCHOR

New Jersey does not have a Florida-style homestead exemption with one county deadline. Its property tax relief for homeowners and renters runs through the Division of Taxation. The program the Division’s page presents today is ANCHOR, Affordable New Jersey Communities for Homeowners and Renters, which offers property tax relief to residents who own or rent property in New Jersey as their main home and meet income limits. The Division’s page also links the Senior Freeze (Property Tax Reimbursement) and the Stay NJ Property Tax Credit Program, and seniors and people collecting Social Security or Railroad Retirement disability benefits file one combined application, Form PAS-1, for all three.

What the Division says about 2026

This year’s ANCHOR benefit is based on residency, income and age from 2025. The Division filed on behalf of most eligible homeowners under 65 who are not collecting Social Security Disability or Railroad Retirement Disability benefits, and for most eligible renters of all ages, and sent those residents an ANCHOR Benefit Confirmation Letter on August 10, 2026. People who needed to change banking information, ask for a paper check, or decline a filing had to act by September 15, 2026. Seniors and disability-benefit recipients are not filed for: they must complete the PAS-1, online or on paper. The Division states the deadline to apply for the 2025 application is November 2, 2026, and held an evening filing event on that day in Trenton.

Last year’s dates, which set the pattern

The same page records the prior cycle: confirmation letters mailed August 13, 2025, a September 15, 2025 cutoff for changes, and an October 31, 2025 deadline for people who did not receive a letter and for seniors and disability recipients filing the PAS-1. The 2025 date was a Friday, October 31. In 2026 October 31 fell on a Saturday and the published deadline is Monday, November 2. That is how we project 2027: October 31, 2027 is a Sunday, so the next weekday is Monday, November 1, 2027.

Why the 2027 date is labelled projected

The Division has not published a 2027 deadline, and it can change the date, the program or the forms. We built the projected date from two published deadlines and one rule of thumb, the next weekday on or after October 31. Treat it as a planning date and check the Division’s page in late summer 2027. The tool above marks any date it did not take from the Division as projected.

Who qualifies

For the prior benefit year the Division listed homeowner eligibility as being a New Jersey resident who owned and occupied a home that was the principal residence on October 1, with a home subject to property taxes, and with gross income for the base year not more than $250,000. Renters had to rent and occupy a residence as the main home on October 1, have their name on the lease, pay rent, live in a property subject to local property taxes, and have income not more than $150,000. Those amounts are for the earlier cycle shown on the Division’s page, so look up the current figures before you rely on them.

Worked example

You are a 70-year-old homeowner in Bergen County. The Division will not file for you because you are over 65. You complete the PAS-1 online or on paper before the deadline. If you are 52 and received the confirmation letter, you may not need to do anything, unless you want a paper check or need to change your bank details, which had to be done by September 15 this year.

Limits of this page

This is a deadline guide, not an eligibility or benefit calculator. Benefit amounts are not covered, and the pages we read did not give a 2027 schedule.

Sources

Sources opened and read in November 2026.

• NJ Division of Taxation: ANCHOR Program (page updated September 16, 2026, read November 2026)