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AIBU?

Share your dilemmas and get honest opinions from other Mumsnetters.

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Re: council tax rebate towards utilities

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imamumgetmeoutofhere · 02/04/2022 07:34

AIBU about my situation please.

I currently pay our gas and electric bill from my own current account which is in the region of £200 per month, up from £100 a year ago due to the price increase.

My partner pays the council tax bill from his current account, around £220 a month.

Just the other day he was rubbing his hands together saying he was having £150 back from council tax. I was a bit miffed as that's generally being done due to the energy crisis unless I've misunderstood why it's happening?!

Surely that should go to me, either him giving it to me or directly to me as I pay the gas and electric bill?

Just to add we jointly own the property and are both on the electoral roll so jointly liable for the council tax bill.

We have 2 school age children, he works full time and I work part time. He earns around 4x as much as me.

Yes IABU and it doesn't matter who gets the money as it benefits the family

No IANBU, I pay the gas and electric so should get the rebate.

Thanks for your opinions

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AnotherEmma · 02/04/2022 16:05

"We have 2 school age children, he works full time and I work part time. He earns around 4x as much as me."

£150 is a drop in the ocean if he earns 4 times your salary.

How do you split the rest of the bills; mortgage, water, tv licence, internet, food, childcare, expenses for your children, etc etc?

He's presumably building a nice pension pot from his higher salary while yours must be small.

If you're not married it's even more important to protect yourself financially.

Worry about that instead of quibbling over £150, as it sounds as if he's better off than you by a lot more than £150.

ThreeWiseWomen · 02/04/2022 16:18

What a prince of a man.

sweepeep · 02/04/2022 16:22

I'm sorry but I just couldn't get this bothered about money between myself and dh...surely it's all the same.

BritishDesiGirl · 02/04/2022 18:43

@ImBurtMacklin

And I bet your partner enjoys the two month payment holiday in feb and March too.

Its not a payment holiday though, you pay more across the 10 months so that you don't pay in March and April but you still pay up the same amount

BritishDesiGirl · 02/04/2022 18:44

And yes op, he should pay it towards the gas and electric.

AllThatFancyPaintsAsFair · 02/04/2022 18:48

@sweepeep

I'm sorry but I just couldn't get this bothered about money between myself and dh...surely it's all the same.

How it it all the same when one person pays the same amount of £££ out of a salary 1/4 of the other person

But lucky you that you're not bothered, the OP is or she wouldnt have started a thread about it.

sweepeep · 02/04/2022 18:50

@AllThatFancyPaintsAsFair because it's all household income is it not??

AnotherEmma · 02/04/2022 18:51

[quote sweepeep]@AllThatFancyPaintsAsFair because it's all household income is it not?? [/quote]
Depends whether you have joint finances, does it not?!

If you have a joint account, fine. If finances are separate, it's very much not all the same pot is it?!

AllThatFancyPaintsAsFair · 02/04/2022 18:54

[quote sweepeep]@AllThatFancyPaintsAsFair because it's all household income is it not?? [/quote]
You know that different households have diffrent ways of managing their finances?

There's no law that says everyting has to go into one pot.
There are threads on here every day about how couples arrange their money, unfairness and financial abuse are very much things.

DietrichandDiMaggio · 02/04/2022 18:59

@Footballsundays6777

Are you eligible for the council tax rebate?£200 is quite high a month for council tax so are you in bands a-c?

You do realise that council tax varies all over the country, don't you? Our bill is over £200 and we live in a bog standard 3-bed semi (Band D), though the value of the house now is probably close to 1/2 million, because we are in an expensive city.

sweepeep · 02/04/2022 19:03

@AllThatFancyPaintsAsFair of course I know that, I don't share a bank account with my dh but we still "share finances"

For example If we clog for a walk and stop off at a coffee shop and he says I'm grabbing a coffee and I was low in my account due to a big bill I'd say " yeah grab me one too" that bill is his too so he has benefited from it. All the money is treated the same even though it's kept separate. He's hardly gonna say...no you've spent all your money on that electricity bill so I'm not getting you a coffee is he!?

AllThatFancyPaintsAsFair · 02/04/2022 19:13

All I can say @sweepeep is again that good for you, not everyone is the same as you and our husband and not everyone shares finances

Your own examples aren't going to change that fact, are you saying that you genuinely don't know that all couples are not financially equal.?

sweepeep · 02/04/2022 19:16

@AllThatFancyPaintsAsFair then that's not a finance problem that's a dh problem...

TooManyPJs · 02/04/2022 19:19

The £150 is to pay fir increased utility costs so use it for that. Either way he doesn't get to keep it all just because that the way you've decided to split the bills!!

rwalker · 02/04/2022 19:25

it's difficult to say without knowing the full picture of what he pays and what you pay.
but you've had a discount deal on fuel did you offer that money you've save to him for the council tax

rwalker · 02/04/2022 19:26

@ThreeWiseWomen

What a prince of a man.

You've absolutely no Idea what else he pays for say wouldn't be to quick to slag him off

Original poster

imamumgetmeoutofhere · 02/04/2022 19:35

This is purely about the gas and electric bill vs the council tax

I haven't brought the rest of the bills into it as they are currently reasonably well split due to our mortgage being really high though we may need to readjust this soon as the food bills are getting stupid also

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AllThatFancyPaintsAsFair · 02/04/2022 19:36

[quote sweepeep]@AllThatFancyPaintsAsFair then that's not a finance problem that's a dh problem...[/quote]
I don't imagine that anyone would disagree with that. A partner problem leading to a financial problem.

NelsonScrandela · 02/04/2022 19:53

What a bellend!

We have separate finances to a point but this is being used on something to do together (when it comes, not yet received.)

WaterBottle123 · 02/04/2022 19:57

@imamumgetmeoutofhere

This is purely about the gas and electric bill vs the council tax

But it's not.

This is a bunch of wise women spotting yet another woman who's reduced her earning, saving and pension capacity without any security AND appears to be married to a greedy arse.

This thread happens DAILY on MN

WaterBottle123 · 02/04/2022 19:57

Sorry you're NOT married to the greedy arse, which is part of the problem

SpilltheTea · 02/04/2022 20:06

He should give it to you for the energy bill and start paying towards it because it's now incredibly unfair on you. He sounds like a tight, selfish arse.

Dishwashersaurous · 03/04/2022 09:23

OK. So you need to adjust all bills because they are going up, and the rebate is simply put into the bills pot.

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