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Universal Credit - Council Tax Reduction - Rebate?
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marliepanda wrote: »I'd have to see the bill to know for certain but if the earnings took them over the threshold it would be unusual for a CTR reduction to apply for only 2 weeks, but theres not really enough info to go on overall.
That's kinda the impression I got, when I emailed the council to query whether or not the CTR had been applied I received the following :
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You currently have Single Person discount on your account, which has been on since the start date of 26/09/2016. However, you only have Council tax Reduction on your account for the period 01/04/17 to the 17/04/17 and there is not Council Tax Reduction on your 2018/19 account.
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I actually received a Universal Credit payment on the 24th or 25th April of 2017, meaning my assessment period would have run up until the 18th of April, at which point I would have contacted UC and told them I hadn't earned enough in that particular month. However, I did not get a UC payment in March because of earnings0 -
PaulStaleman wrote: »That's kinda the impression I got, when I emailed the council to query whether or not the CTR had been applied I received the following :
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You currently have Single Person discount on your account, which has been on since the start date of 26/09/2016. However, you only have Council tax Reduction on your account for the period 01/04/17 to the 17/04/17 and there is not Council Tax Reduction on your 2018/19 account.
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I actually received a Universal Credit payment on the 24th or 25th April of 2017, meaning my assessment period would have run up until the 18th of April, at which point I would have contacted UC and told them I hadn't earned enough in that particular month. However, I did not get a UC payment in March because of earnings
Quite often people will have bills with multiple entries for CTR because of their changes in circumstances.
After the initial 'stoppage' of CTR, did you not contact the council again?0 -
Only recently, i'm having problems paying both last years and this years council tax at the moment so I contacted the council to see if the discount had been applied because I noticed this years bill was the same amount as what I'm paying for last year (I'm working now, so expect a full bill).
I didn't contact them at the time, I didn't know it had actually stopped until I contacted them last week and I didn't know I was supposed to inform the council of earnings as well as UC ... this is my fault, ignorance is no excuse ... I understand that, but I was just owndering if I could get it "backdated" since I have proof that I was on UC at the time.0 -
Just spoke to them again to ask why it was stopped and they said they got a note that my Universal Credit claim had been suspended because of an over-payment.
This over-payment never happened, but I am aware of it because I had all kinds of problems with them claiming I had received an overpayment when in fact I hadn't. Eventually they worked it out to be a problem with their payment system and I thought that was the end of it, then when I closed my UC account in December I received a letter from Fredricksons Debt collectors looking to get back the overpayment ... so had to go through the whole discussion again, where again they assured me all action had been cancelled.
Spoke to UC, they're going to send out a letter stating the "overpayment" was error on thier part and never actually happened, so technically, the Council Tax Reduction should never have been cencelled ... I then need to take this with the UC claim letters to the council and they will review.
Hopefully there's light at the end of this tunnel.0
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