Carers allowance and council tax reduction

frognik
frognik Online Community Member Posts: 4 Listener
edited April 9 in Benefits and income

Hi both myself and my wife are disabled and are on universal credit and pip each and we are both carers for each other and so receive carers allowance so what I need to ask is does this affect our council tax reduction in any way

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  • frognik
    frognik Online Community Member Posts: 4 Listener

    Hi both myself and my wife are on universal credit and are both disabled , we both receive carers allowance for looking after each other , what I need to know is does this affect our council tax reduction in any way at all

  • Kimi87
    Kimi87 Online Community Member Posts: 5,538 Championing
    edited April 8

    Each local authority has different rules for Council Tax Reduction, so it's very hard to advise on individual cases from here.

  • Holly_Scope
    Holly_Scope Posts: 2,270 Scope Online Community Coordinator

    Hi @frognik and welcome to the forum! 😊 I haven't been through this myself, but from what I can see, it depends on your overall income and individual councils specifications. I've added a link where you can add your postcode to locate your local council and apply for a discount which hopefully is helpful - Apply for a Council Tax discount - GOV.UK

    Hopefully there are members here who will see this post and be able to advise based on their experiences too.

    Best wishes,

  • Holly_Scope
    Holly_Scope Posts: 2,270 Scope Online Community Coordinator

    I've merged 2 chats as they were fairly similar. Hope that's ok 😊

  • frognik
    frognik Online Community Member Posts: 4 Listener

    Okay and thank you for your teplies

  • frognik
    frognik Online Community Member Posts: 4 Listener

    I meant replies

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