Has anyone had their council tax rebate yet?

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Ours has gone out of the bank as usual.. would be nice if some of it came back

We're band E :(.

None of it makes any sense!
It might all work out eventually for everyone who stays in the same house for the next 12 months, but for anyone that moves how will it be worked out?
If some councils do a £150 immediate transfer in April, and then knock £150 off the annual bill in others, could some people get paid twice and others not at all if they move from a council that does a to one that does b?
I saw somewhere that it's based on where you paid ctax in february....so if you have since moved to a different local area could you still get a payment from your old council? And would it be a full £150? If you move into your first house in April does that mean you don't get anything?
What a fuck up....

The government website doesn't say - presumably the £150 is not reduced for those of us on single adult discount rate? We should still receive the full £150 right?

As far as I understand it, the only link the rebate has with council tax is in relation to your band and nothing further. Therefore, the person who is liable for CT in a band A-D property - even if their actual liability is reduced to £0.00 by benefits or allowances - will receive the £150 in full, as long as it's your primary residence.

Moiranotruby. Th3 £150 is nothing to do with council tax. The councils are administering the payment on behalf of the government, in recognition of rise in cost of living. So you should still receive £150. As, I’m assuming the people on certain benefits who don’t pay council tax.

In my area of Scotland it was just reduced from the bill so I’ll pay £1.50 less per week. It might sound ungrateful but I would have rather had the lump sum to actually pay towards my bills

@JayAlfredPrufrock There will be lots of people in your situation - just because you've got a big house doesn't mean you've got any disposable income, especially if you are retired and still living in the family home. Hope your council are on the ball 🤞

@Pixiedust1234

No. Council website says anyone who pays by DD will get it in May. Those that don't...they haven't decided how to implement yet as they can't send it direct to our bank account. In other words trying to get everybody to do DD.

There's a form online you fill in and it asks for your bank details.

My council website says it will be paid directly in to your bank account by the 22nd of April.

In my area of Scotland it was just reduced from the bill so I’ll pay £1.50 less per week. It might sound ungrateful but I would have rather had the lump sum to actually pay towards my bills

That doesn't sound ungrateful in the least. So have your council received the funding for your rebate and decided to borrow it from you, paying it back over a long period? If so, that's disgraceful.

Have your energy (and other) bills that you have to meet NOW only gone up by £1.50 a week? You'd be the only one in the whole country if they had.

It's essentially deliberately turning a small lifeline into a slap in the face, deliberately drip-feeding it to you in such small amounts and over such a long period of time so as to nullify any visible benefit of it. It does have the air of paying a disputed bill in pennies to make a protest.

I know they would say that you will benefit fully from the rebate (might even try to sell it to you as helping you over a much longer period), but the whole idea of the scheme isn't to adjust people's long-term balance sheets a tiny bit ready for an annual audit - it's meant to help struggling families who are struggling now.

@WeBuiltThisBuffetOnSausageRoll when it came out that there would be a £150 rebate the Scottish government said it would be up to each council area how they handed it out, I think some areas might get a lump sum and other like mine have just had a reduction on their bill, so my council tax was £26 something a week it’s now £24.50 or something along those lines.

It's being taken off the council tax here so council just reissued the bills for £15 lower each month.

@AlaskaThunderfuckHiiiiiiiii

In my area of Scotland it was just reduced from the bill so I’ll pay £1.50 less per week. It might sound ungrateful but I would have rather had the lump sum to actually pay towards my bills

Should be about £3 less per week, surely? That's really annoying that you don't get to choose how to use it though

I hope we get lump sum could really use now.

Mines definitely been reduced from the bill so obviously different councils are paying it different ways. I don’t mind because the way things are at the minute I might have gotten into trouble by buying food or gas. Ridiculous having to think like that.

Just received this in a lump sum today.

Bit mad as now I’ll basically pay this back to them.

Our council has changed from 'payment in April' to 'payments in April and May, all payments should be made by end of June'. I'd think mine will be May as I pay CT on 28th of the month.

got ours today, £150 into the bill payers account (we pay by direct debit), had to call the bank as had no idea who the transaction was from!

@z0fl0ra our neighbouring county (MK) got it today too. No such luck here 😭

As, I’m assuming the people on certain benefits who don’t pay council tax

Which people?
People on benefits have had to pay Council tax for years albeit a proportion

That's what my council is doing - I think I just pay about a fiver for this month then back to normal in May. It's ideal timing as I've just had an expensive MOT experience.

Still waiting. I was initially told we were not entitled as we rent. But we pay the council tax. So just wait and see.

Bit mad as now I’ll basically pay this back to them.

It does seem disjointed, but I suppose it's nothing actually to do with council tax per se - CT status has just been used as the criterion for qualifying and the CT payments infrastructure for distributing the separate funding from the government.

We've been told that we should be getting ours next week. They say they have to make rigorous checks to ensure that the payments are made to the correct account, but they're treating having successfully collected April's payment from X account as satisfactory confirmation that X account should receive that money.

And I could have done with it this month - I’ve had to pay for dentist for the children (no nhs available) £60 and £550 for dyslexia testing for youngest (council refuse to pay here)

Yes, it went into my bank about a week ago.

Yea had it last week