Council tax

Debbie1234

please help!!!! I am a 52-year-old mentally and physically disabled woman. I get enhance rate PIP for both elements. My husband receives carers for caring for me really well. We used to have 25% discount for paying council tax a month. We used to pay £115 every month now they would like £165 a month. I asked them why and they said it is because my son is over 18 now and can register to vote. This seems really unfair that they want this much money a month as you are aware unemployment support allowance I never had to pay council tax. My husband cares for his father as well but doesn't get paid for it so when he has to go and visit his father, my son cares for me. I have around 10 panic a day and I struggle to walk on son does but the three days off a week he has he will help care for me And that way my husband can get a little rest from time to time the council did award me a separate bedroom so we live in a three bedroom home? What help is there? Please can I say my son is a carer too and still get the 25% discount for council tax disregarded?
It just seems what little extra we get to help with my disability. They take it off other hand. I just feel like giving up it's hopeless.

Holly_Scope

Hi @Debbie1234 I'm so sorry to read you've lost your council tax discount. Especially with it being such a challenging time. Is it possible to get some additional information please? Is it the single person's discount or non-dependent deductions they've removed? And if it's ok, may I ask the council in question?

Debbie1234

hello Holly

Thank you so much for your reply. I think we are all on tender hooks recently with the news. I have been deemed by the council mentally impaired and I am a vulnerable adult my husband is my were getting 25% discount with the council tax when my son was under 18 years of age but since he has turned 18, they are expecting us out of the benefits to pay full council tax £165 a month on band c….

my son also for me when my husband his looking after him as I need almost 12 hours a day to be looked after I have up to 10 panic attacks a day I myself. I'm just so depressed as you are aware on employment and support I didn't have to pay any council tax. This world just seems so cruel. They said if a stranger was looking after me I wouldn't have to pay council tax. It is Telford and Wrekin council. My son works 20 hours a week but the wage he gets keeps his car running hoping to buy a house eventually so he is saving. It just seems so difficult as before he was 18 we had help as he was doing his A-levels and we had child tax then all of a sudden he turns 18 and we lose everything

OverlyAnxious

Hi,

As your son is 18 and no longer in full time education, he is classed as an adult and is expected to pay towards the housing costs. That is the reason for the increase.

He can claim Universal Credit in his own right while looking for a better paid job. But he will be expected to actively look for more work if he does not have health conditions himself.

Unfortunately two people cannot claim Carers Allowance/Element to care for the same person.

Debbie1234

thank you for your answer