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Paying 20% Council Tax despite being on disability benefits

DisabledMother4 · 2014-03-13 16:38:17

Hi, I am a severely disabled mother with 2 children at home and I was told that the ESA amount is equivalent to the old Income Support that I was claiming. Recently they sent me a benefit letter saying my ESA was going up by 70p to around £146.00 a week and that was the amount that the government says I need to live on…

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WillowCat Posts: 974 Forumite

14 March 2014 at 8:55PM

DisabledMother4 wrote: »

Hi,
& you have to pay £12.50 a week Council Tax?

Are you sure it's £12.50 a week? If you also get the single person discount that means your full, undiscounted council tax is over £3500 per year.

More likely it's £12.50 per month.....or £2.90 a week. Not much to pay for your local services.

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