I have been given Housing Benefit but no Council Tax Benefit, is this right?
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March 16th, 2010 at 12:57 pm
If you are not working you will get 100% of the council tax paid for you.
Idiots who gave me thumbs down….you DO get 100% paid! As a single mother on income support, they pay 100%
March 18th, 2010 at 7:54 pm
This does sound abit strange. Try the Citizens Advice Bureau, they are a wealth of knowledge with things like this.
March 20th, 2010 at 11:50 am
Go to your local Citizens Advice Bureau. They should be able to help with your question.
March 22nd, 2010 at 4:31 am
You don’t say if you’re in work or not. If you’re not working, you don’t have to pay at all. If you are working, but the only adult living in the house, you can get 25% off council tax.
March 25th, 2010 at 10:18 am
The answer to this is that the limits to be awarded housing benefit are generally less than those for council tax and many people can be awarded housing benefit but no council tax benefit. I assume that you have some earnings and are not on JSA or Income Support? But occasionally, councils do make errors so your appeal will not be in vain. I can only assume that you have higher earnings now or your personal circumstances have changed somehow? Ask for an explanation.
March 28th, 2010 at 2:47 pm
So you pay your rent, then get it back. Perhaps pay your council tax with you rent money love.
I don’t get sweet fanny adams for paying any of my bills. Welcome to the real world, nothing comes for free.
March 31st, 2010 at 8:47 pm
Try looking on entitledto.com it is great for working out your entitlements.
April 2nd, 2010 at 11:08 am
IF YOU ARE working the thresholds are different for each benefit I suspect you have started work since your last assessment and you will now be liable for council tax.
April 2nd, 2010 at 5:38 pm
I found this web site to get support then in the text there is benefit checker,it links to your local council, I checked mine and it was spot on.
April 3rd, 2010 at 2:25 am
Well I’ve just been in receipt of carer’s allowance say a month ago now and I do claim income support and housing and full council tax benefit. I’m on £100 pound a week. You can find out and send a email to them to query it. You need to get there address. Put in to google the area name were you live and the name of the office that you are querying about. That’s what I did and they replied straight a way. I waited several months for my forms to be processed. But they did give me all the money that was owed. It was back dated from the date that I required.
Good Luck.
April 3rd, 2010 at 12:35 pm
Ask them to explain how they worked it out.
April 6th, 2010 at 5:14 pm
if your not working then yes they should pay all of it. if your working its based on our earnings, my husband brings in 13k a yr, we have two kids i dont work, we private rent at 825 a month, get 260 a month towards that but no council tax benefit, which is 136 a month.
April 7th, 2010 at 2:34 am
To be able to answer this question correctly it is necessary to see what your income is. My advice is continue with the appeal for the time being but check the detailed calculations sent to you when the award notice was sent. Are your household details right? Is your income correct?
It is perfectly possible and indeed very common that people get no Council Tax Benefit but some
Housing Benefit. The usual reason for this is that the weekly eligible charge for Council Tax is much lower than eligible weekly Housing Benefit. As your income increases above Income Support Levels, Benefit is withdrawn on a % basis (the rates are different for Housing Benenfit and Council Tax Benefit). It’s then an arithmetic exercise with Council Tax Benefit being exhausted first.
Incidentally as a general rule you get full benefit if you are not working but there are a number of situations when your circumstances are such that you do not get full Housing/Council Tax Benefits