Council tax benefit

princessdon

K.Morrisy wrote: »

Thanks all, I have just asked them Dear sir.

Could you please tell me how you are calculating my entitlement?

We were getting 100% of our council tax paid before April. Nothing has changed in our circumstances.

We are on very low income and thought we already applied for help with council tax when we applied for housing benefit.

We have no savings over £6000 and only income of £500mnth from wages and workingTC and childTC.

Please can you tell me how you are working out my entitlement?

How many hours does your wife work? At 24 hours she should be earning more than £500 pm.

K.Morrisy

princessdon wrote: »

How many hours does your wife work? At 24 hours she should be earning more than £500 pm.

That is all she gets, but we do get about £200wk TC, working and child.

jacques_chirac

K.Morrisy wrote: »

That is all she gets, but we do get about £200wk TC, working and child.

So your income is actually closer to £1300 a month? Do you receive any housing benefit? Which local authority are you under?

princessdon

K.Morrisy wrote: »

That is all she gets, but we do get about £200wk TC, working and child.

So she only gets paid £4.80 ph? How old is she?

pmlindyloo

Put your details into the benefit calculator here:

http://www.turn2us.org.uk/benefits_search.aspx

This will give you a reasonable guide to what you might expect to get.

From what you say something seems wrong. You seem to be saying that you have gone from having your council tax fully paid to receiving very little help.

Did your wife always work part time?

Before April it was usually people who were only receiving income based JSA/ESA/Income Support who were entitled automatically to full CTB and HB.

K.Morrisy

princessdon wrote: »

So she only gets paid £4.80 ph? How old is she?

No its min wage, Its £500something something, but she is also selfemployed but no profit yet.

K.Morrisy

jacques_chirac wrote: »

So your income is actually closer to £1300 a month? Do you receive any housing benefit? Which local authority are you under?

Yes we get about 70% of our rent paid by housing benfit. We live in Barnet.

jacques_chirac

K.Morrisy wrote: »

Yes we get about 70% of our rent paid by housing benfit. We live in Barnet.

As asked earlier, can you tell us exactly what income you have please? Then we can try to work it out for you.

24 hours at minimum wage is closer to £600. Does this sound correct?

K.Morrisy

jacques_chirac wrote: »

As asked earlier, can you tell us exactly what income you have please? Then we can try to work it out for you.

24 hours at minimum wage is closer to £600. Does this sound correct?

Thanks very much my wife only work 16hrs employed at min wage then she is self employed about 14hrs week. No profit from S.E. is expected in her first year which she has just started.

We get £116.54 week CTC and£91.13 WTC,

K.Morrisy

Aslo £134.80 mnth child ben, we have no savings and no other income.

Our housing benefit is less than £200wk but our rent is £240wk for a tiny little box flat far too small for a family of four.