Jealous of those who live in A-D?

[MrsMurphyIWish]

I’ve started seeing comments about budget money funnelled into “welfare areas”. DH and I are nearly 50. We were raised in an under privileged area - he, working class and me foster care. We never moved and as teachers of nearly 30 years I think we may not be net contributors but we work bloody hard.

Here’s to all at the council area workers where we bloody work our arses off - I’ll take any benefit that comes our way!

You don’t know them anyway.

“for whatever reason”.😂😂😂😂😂🤷‍♀️🤨❓🤔
lucky u got any response at all!
Do you both teach woodworking…

So you get 1-2 weeks of free electricity. And you're outraged because ...?

Well I don't grudge people in A-D properties a £100 sweetie.

My new graduate som has just told me he’ll be getting it. Am quite pleased as they haven’t touched the heating yet to save money…

Why? If you live in a house of band E or above then £100 wouldn’t even touch the sides to heat or power a property that big.

Just imagine the threads if they'd announced the £100 would only be going to those on universal credit!

It’s only £100 to each household, which isn’t something I’m jealous of, but it’s going to cost over £2.6bn of taxpayer money to fund. What a waste of money!!

I don’t like paying tax in this country. It’s just pissed up the wall.

This is insane!

People will moan about everything we will be getting it and I'm very grateful.

From the Gov site -
This will be paid for by increasing the Bank Corporation Tax Surcharge from 3% to 6% for 15 months, before ending on 31 March 2028.

Will than not be a significant chunk of London?

my friend lives in a band d semi in zone 3.

her house is worth 800k.

I reckon a lot of the money will go to high value houses in the se and London. Higher population density, but high value of the housing market means many houses are still below band d.

comparatively smaller amount will go to “deprived” areas in the north etc.

I grew up in a decent suburb of a Northern city. Our house (3 bed semi) was a band C. My PIL live in an almost identical three bed semi on the edge of the M25. It’s not a particularly nice area and theirs is a band E. Council tax banding is not a direct correlation with your income or the type of area you live in.

I'll swap my £100 and my money purchase pension for your teachers pension.

Council tax is a terrible way to do it because the bands are set based on the value of the property in 1991 which means between different areas, the current value of of a home in a given band has diverged massively depending on what house price growth has been like in that area. It should have been targeted at benefits recipients as a proxy for income since it's how much cash you have that determines whether you can pay your bills, not how much your house was worth in 1991.

FWIW I live in a band E property - it's a 4 bed, 1 bathroom 1970s semi that I paid £575k for last year (in the SE), not a huge mansion.

Yep- the area I used to live in in SE London all the streets are terraces/semi detached, all band d or below.

all worth not far off a million. Some have been extended and are massive 4 bed houses, 1.5 million, still band D from 1991.

Our house is band C, nice middle class area, with middle class professional families.

I live 40 miles from London and most of the three bed semis are band E here (and they are worth between £400–£500k). My PIL 3 bed semi is closer to London and is also a band E (worth about £500k). Whereas all the 3 bed semis in the nice suburb of the Northern city that I grew up in are a band C.

What I will say is that there isn’t a massive difference in incomes between the area that I grew up in and where I live now. There is no London or outer London weighting here so, for example, if you are a teacher you will get paid on exactly the same scale as you would where I grew up. Just because your house is worth more, doesn’t mean you have more money available to cover fuel bills. My Northern friends have more disposable income than friends doing similar jobs where I live now.

I thought they were living in 100 BC and had opened a wormhole

It will make a difference to me. I can buy 7 bags of wood for the burner.

Yes apologies, I meant my area, I’m sure there’s lots of variation across the board.

It's an extra £700 a year for an E property than a D in my area. So yet again those paying more tax get nothing back.

😂

I'm Band A and I am very happy to accept a gift of £100. Its better than nowt.

And your point is? I rather think you’re missing the point of progressive taxation.

£100 is roughly what my monthly direct debit is for a band E house (4 bed semi). I have friends living in a draughty Victorian flat whose energy bills are higher than ours - council tax band doesn’t mean anything for how energy efficient your house is.