Cilot det refund? 6 February 2010 at 4:50PM in UK armed forces MoneySaving 4 replies 4.2K views

tinkerbell28

Hi, someone just asked hubby if he had is cilot refund yet from his detachment, what is this? I know it's the council tax thing, but what's this about a partial refund if he has been deployed, he hasn't got it yet............

Reason I ask, is he is so meh about these things, when it comes to paperwork and chasing things up that he is entitled to, so at least if I know what it is I can pester him to contact JPA :rotfl:

Thanks all and hi, when I googled it, cilot brought me here!:beer:

Alias_Omega

CILOT is Charges In Leiu of Council Tax.

With normal council tax, if your husband was away you could claim a reduction to 75%. I am unsure if this is the case with this claim, but i would not expect to see any of the cash soon but instead maybe 2-3months later.

tinkerbell28

Oh ok, so we are not paying regular council tax as we are in MQ, so he pays cilot out of his wages, will have to look into it I guess.

It's the guy he replaced originally asked him if he had his rebate yet, that's what started me looking into it, thanks:)

Trying_to_be_good

I think it's a one-off payment of something like £140 for a 6-month deployment, but don't know if it's paid automatically or has to be claimed. I'm sure someone else will know.

Just found this: http://www.mod.uk/DefenceInternet/DefenceNews/DefencePolicyAndBusiness/CouncilTaxReliefExtendedToAllTroopsOnOperations.htm

Esoog

Its done by unit HR, if he's been on ops recently get him to go see them and sort it out