Local authorities now administer their own schemes for council tax support/relief and most of them class universal credit as income when calculating eligibility. This means they also class all the parts of universal credit relating to disability that previously were ring fenced, as income. A person in receipt of these and undertaking a small amount of regular work, earning say £100-400 a month, in many local authorities now is no longer eligible for council tax support and must pay the full bill, even if that full bill is the same as their total earnings.
Some local authorities are even counting PIP as income meaning that people eligible for PIP are having to spend their PIP on paying tax.
Surely this is a gross diversion from what these monies are supposed to be used for. What is even the point in having disability benefits if those benefits are spent on local tax?