To be pissed off we won’t get the £150 rebate

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I feel like the rebate is giving with one hand and taking with the other. But now I also realise that as we are in band E: we aren’t getting the rebate at all! So it’s just “take” from us. We already pay a higher amount of council tax and we aren’t high users of council services

We aren’t rich: but we do have a fairly decent house that we make other sacrifices to afford. We work hard and pay into a pension and pay off our mortgage in the hope that we’re fairly self sufficient in old age. This just feels like a bit of a slap in the face.

Having just looked at the statistics for council tax house banding, it's obvious that over 81% of households are in properties A-D. On that basis, this does seem to be the fairest and cheapest way to allocate this minimal funding. As for the majority, those lower earners and those in poverty will be living within these bands.

There will be losers. But in many respects, that's par for the course if someone has opted to live in what is viewed a more expensive home in that specific area. And the council tax needed paying before and this was viewed acceptable, so ultimately for these householders, nothing has changed.

Each council will have a discretionary pot of money. If you are in band E and think you should get the £150 keep an eye out for the form and apply. Any method discriminated against someone. They could have just paid it to the higher bands as according to MN they are the bigger houses so more rooms to heat!

Fuel companies should pay

@Bellringer

Fuel companies should pay

Pay the council tax? 🤔

@Crimesean

Look, someone has to pay - and it makes sense for those with the most assets to bear a greater burden. Whining about poverty when you're sitting on £750k plus is unbearable privilege.

The asset-rich elderly are already getting the best deal of anyone in society with years of above-inflation pension rises, universal winter fuel allowance/travel passes.

I'd like to see some cash redirected to the poorest 20% of society, especially children growing up in poverty.

Agree with most of your comment apart from we are council tax E with house price of 300k so hardly a mansion, very standard house in Yorkshire. We pay £2200 a year in council tax.

@Bellringer

Fuel companies should pay

They should. Shell’s profits last year were absolutely obscene. A windfall tax would be an easy way of getting some balance.

Fuel companies paying waa discussed but they have said with the situation with Russia they need to plow money into building the energy infrastructure in the UK bringing plans forward on a faster scale, could be bullshit of course but it was raised by Rishi.

In most cases the imminent increase to Council Tax bills will wipe out the £150 anyway.

Of course it’s bullshit. Even Sunak couldn’t blatantly steal a Labour policy, no matter how good an idea it is.

@FAQs

Fuel companies paying waa discussed but they have said with the situation with Russia they need to plow money into building the energy infrastructure in the UK bringing plans forward on a faster scale, could be bullshit of course but it was raised by Rishi.

They’ve been talking about how secure our energy supplies are for over ten fucking years.

All of our resources are sold internationally by international companies. They have no interest in selling to the British first.

So if we extract oil and gas, there’s no guarantee it will be cheaper to the British because the privately owned companies just want to make money so will sell it to the highest bidder.

The problem is that our energy market is privatised so there’s no interest in retaining profits or energy for us.

The failure of a private energy market is what no one is willing to challenge, either because they don’t know how it works, don’t understand or are so blinded by ideology.