Anyone got their council tax rebate today

[Onanotherdiet38]

Not very clear when in April it's due, my bill comes out on the 15th for example of this month, so would I need to wait until after then?

Does he not read or watch the news?
@dworky only the headlines, I only know about it from reading the council tax paperwork.

@Zazdar

I wish…… since our bloody council tax is E band we don’t get help

I know what you mean. We get to pay more for council tax and energy..

We are F so nothing. We use heating oil too so no price cap there either.

In RCT (Wales) we are getting £100 if your in bands E or F and an extra £50 if you have children under 16 I think. Will be credited to your bank account sometime in April if you pay by DD.

Ours came out of the April instalment cost…so we only had to pay around £30 for April council tax then it goes up to the normal rate for the other instalments.

I receive full council tax support, so need to fill an online form out (with ID or a utility bill) when my council uploads it on Monday. Lord knows how long it'll take them to process

I’ve no idea. I’ve been charged a completely random amount of council tax which doesn't correspond to what I should pay (or what I should pay -£150) with no explanation whatsoever.

I don’t pay by DD just pay it every month so I’ve no idea when or how we’re getting it.

@Koigarden

I don’t pay by DD just pay it every month so I’ve no idea when or how we’re getting it.

Same here.

@DragonOverTheMoon

I got mine yesterday and so did my work colleagues, but we work for the council and it came in our wage packet.

That sounds a bit weird, @DragonOverTheMoon - how come?

Ours said something along the lines of, "Council tax rebate, -£ whatever the amount was," and the bill is about a fiver less each month than last year.

Not me but the council has paid some today probably working way through the bands

In a way,yes. My first payment is the 1st of next month now instead of today and the £150 has come off my bill.

Lucky to be in Scotland, local council have deducted it off the annual bill.

Although as a PP pointed out, it’s next to nothing per month because of the annual CT increase, but least I’m not stressing about claiming it back.

Our council has said it’ll start looking into it but there are many new checks to make so it’ll be end of the month at the earliest.

I predict May 4th in time for the elections

Nope. And I don't pay by direct debit, so I'm not sure how I'm going to get mine.

Nothing for us here as our, (small, shabby), semi detached somehow falls into Band E, (we're in Kent). We pay more council tax than my employer, who lives in a 5 bed house in London worth around £2m. Ridiculous system.

I don't pay by DD so I'm wondering if I'm ever going to get it.

Which is doubly annoying as we now have to pay for green bin collection so I have to pay that out as well.

Knowing my Local Council (looking at you Torridge DC) as it's money they pay out, they'll take as long as they can and overshuffle paperwork to keep themselves in some of the best paid work in the area. A few might even pull a few sickies (at local taxpayer's expense) with the stress of keeping up an' all.

If I sound cynical, indeed I am, my local Council Tax authority has not the slightest understanding of the poorly-paid people that surround them. Maybe 1 or 2 Councillors do but they're advised by a bunch of shoe-ins that follow National payscales without any local knowledge.

When my rebate comes, it comes, and I'll stick it straight on my Power Bills - I certainly don't depend on my Local Council to do right by me; AFAIK us Council Tax Payers only exist to make their lives as easy as possible.

I checked our local council's website last night and it states that they will make the £150 payment to Direct Debit payers at the beginning of May,after the first month's Council Tax instalment has been received.They STILL haven't worked out how to get the rebate to non-DDebit payers.

They are trying to get round it by encouraging people to sign up to pay by DDebit in order to receive it,which is something I don't want to do.
Since credit card surcharges were abolished some years ago,I've been paying my monthly bill by credit card,so I earn reward points on my card (there's got to be an upside to paying Council Tax on time!). I send the money straight over to my CC account from my current account when I do that so that it's all accounted for and doesn't get spent on something else.I don't want to change a payment system that works well for me,so I guess I'm going to have to sit tight and wait...and wait.

I pay my council tax on 30th of each month by DD.

It's less than the £150 rebate.

Sounds like a daft question but do you just automatically get it or do you have to have paid enough in for the rebate to then come back?

@EinsteinaGogo At a council I used to work at, colleagues who lived in the council area could opt to have their council tax deducted and paid from their pay packet rather than as a separate direct debit. So I wonder if Dragon has the same arrangement?

If you move out of the area it would be refunded along with any other over payments. Or it reduces your final bill.

I have no idea.

We moved into a new build last summer and when we contacted the council, they said they needed HMRC to assign it to a band before they could issue a bill. We are expecting it to be band E, based on other houses of the same design on the estate.

Nothing happened for months… then last week we got a bill covering the 9 months of 2021/22 and all of 2022/23 - with a provisional band C.

So based on that, we should get the rebate, although there was no mention of it. But since they will eventually classify us as band E, we would only have to pay it back I imagine, so better off not getting it in the first place.

I set up a DD. Ultimately I want to pay over 12 months, but since they are currently charging us on band C rather than E, I elected to stick with 10 months so that I’m paying more of what we owe now rather than leave it to build up even more.

So I am paying 21 months of band C over 10 months, £330 per month. Whereas 21 months of band E over 12 months would be £396 per month. I’m still underpaying, but at least I’m paying something. If we were paying 2022/23 band E over 12 months it would be £229 per month. I’m sure it will work out eventually.

I don't qualify. Apparently my bog standard 4 bed semi doesn't fit the criteria. I'm paying £300 per. Month counci tax now

We pay more council tax than my employer, who lives in a 5 bed house in London worth around £2m. Ridiculous system.

Ridiculous indeed. My neighbour knocked down a small three bed band C house and replaced it with a three storey, five bedroom, four bathroom monstrosity.

It has the same address as the old house, so it’s still band C.