Council tax benefit in Wales

annie_cardiff

Has anyone been informed that they will have to pay x amount toward their council tax from Jan 2013 if on full benefit at the moment. My sister has just received a letter from the council tax officed stating it will about £9 per month even though the welsh government have not voted on it yet !!!! :mad:

clemmatis

Labour, LibDem and Plaid have done a deal - the vote will go through. But you'd think the councils would have the decency to wait till it does.

CIS

Labour, LibDem and Plaid have done a deal - the vote will go through. But you'd think the councils would have the decency to wait till it does.

Its such a massive change that councils have already had to start implementing them otherwise they wouldn't have time to do so if they waited.

bestpud

£9 a month! :eek:

:cool:

lighting_up_the_chalice

bestpud wrote: »

£9 a month! :eek:

:cool:

Where do I sign?

princessdon

lighting_up_the_chalice wrote: »

Where do I sign?

Me too





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clemmatis

bestpud wrote: »

£9 a month! :eek:

:cool:

lighting_up_the_chalice wrote: »

Where do I sign?

princessdon wrote: »

Me too

You want to live on benefits? Really?

Annie's sister presumably qualified for full CTB until the UK Government cuts

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-politics-20642045

annie_cardiff

For all people who like to think that they could live on £70 per week , minus £10 pw water bill,+ gas ,+ electric,+phone and then have the cheek to go and buy food for their 2 children, clothe them thru family/friends, and top up the rent by £20 per week , try it for a year and see how it feels to live that way, not through choice ,everyones circumstances are different. Try to keep a smile on your face at Christmas when the debt is so high you do not want to face another day, you do not eat so your children can ...that is the reality for too many people ,open your eyes and do not judge.

midnight_express

If she's got 2 kids she is not living on £70 a week. What about child benefit, tax credits, council tax benefit and housing benefits.

The people on benefits who are worst off are the child free working age adults who have to pay a mortgage out of JSA.

My council tax is £140 a month.

BurnleyBob

Bit by bit the benefits ladder is being pulled up. This incrementalism, aka salami slicing, will eventually envelop all those in receipt of state aid through the welfare system because the world's economies are getting worse and the downward spiral will accelerate rather than reverse.

scootw1

midnight_express wrote: »

If she's got 2 kids she is not living on £70 a week. What about child benefit, tax credits, council tax benefit and housing benefits.

The people on benefits who are worst off are the child free working age adults who have to pay a mortgage out of JSA.

My council tax is £140 a month.

There was a story in the paper the other day about a single mum buying her kids 2000 pound of presents for Christmas out of benefits so obviously there are people doing well out of them