Severe Disability Premium hasn't been paid for years!

poppy12345

venison said:

Just to pick up one point everybody pays some council tax now, the % varies from council to council.

Under normal times, yes they do. However, due to Covid all local councils were given extra by the Governement which allowed them to give extra to vulnerable households, which give them 100% CTR. I haven't paid any CT since March 2020. Before that i was paying about £12 per month. It's call the hardship fund.... details here. https://www.gov.uk/government/news/government-confirms-500-million-hardship-fund-will-provide-council-tax-relief-for-vulnerable-households

Bratfink

Hi Poppy.

My child doesn't.

The household bill is split between both tenants. My child's and the other tenant.
The bills are sent separately and are exactly half. My child gets full council tax benefit and pays nothing. The other tenant gets no benefits so pays their own half in full.

Bratfink

Sorry *Venison, not Poppy 

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What they did was in most cases to credit accounts with £150 around I think July

poppy12345

venison said:

What they did was in most cases to credit accounts with £150 around I think July

Mine was done before that because i haven't paid any council tax at all since March 2020.

williewonder

I live in supported housing in a shared house with other people with disabilities, we have separate tenancies. My housemate didn't have the severe disability premium paid for 9 years. Late last year he was paid all the disability premiums for the past 9 years which was over 22k.

Bratfink

williewonder said:

I live in supported housing in a shared house with other people with disabilities, we have separate tenancies. My housemate didn't have the severe disability premium paid for 9 years. Late last year he was paid all the disability premiums for the past 9 years which was over 22k.

Hi Willie

That's really good to hear that your housemate got what they should have been paying him.
I haven't heard anything back from DWP yet. It will be interesting to see what the letter says and I think if it's awarded to my child but not backdated then I am definitely going to appeal that. 

poppy12345

Bratfink said:

williewonder said:

I live in supported housing in a shared house with other people with disabilities, we have separate tenancies. My housemate didn't have the severe disability premium paid for 9 years. Late last year he was paid all the disability premiums for the past 9 years which was over 22k.

I think if it's awarded to my child but not backdated then I am definitely going to appeal that. 

The first step would be the mandatory reconsideration (MR) then appeal to a Tribubnal if the MR decision doesn't change.

Although there shouldn't be any problems in them backdating it to when he was first entitled. He won't be the first to be owed that much and certainly won't be the last, many people didn't and don't know the SDP exists.

williewonder

It was only when my housemate transferred from DLA to PIP that soon after that he go his backpay. Loads of people have been getting severe disability premium backpays.

Bratfink

I'm still actually quite shocked that I didn't know about it.
My child has been in receipt of DLA since they were tiny and then PIP when it changed over (always at the highest rates) 
When they moved into their own home they got the ESA (income related) or whatever it might have been called then. They've been in their own property and moved house once into the now shared property since aged 19/20 and they turn 29 this June. 
That's a long time yet no-one has ever made me aware that they are entitled to it. That just baffles me to be honest. 
Hopefully I'll get to the bottom of this with the DWP before too long. 
I can't understand why the assessment people didn't forward them my child's new address details either as they quite clearly told me they would and that I didn't have to do anything else.
Do you think the DWP could say that they won't backdate the money for my child if they are saying that I didn't inform them of the change of address? I have full proof of their addresses and them living alone in the first property and as a single person in a shared tenancy house now.