Coucil Tax Single Person Discount sixth form leavers.

[CarmarthenSingleP]

Carmarthenshire Council conducted a review of single person discounts this month and the form was misleading single parents of sixth form leavers into giving away their discount as their child was now 18.

Has anybody else experienced this or been misled into paying Council Tax which they should not.
The disregard which the Councils are ignoring is
"A person under 20 years old who has left school or college after 30 April of that year. (They are not counted for Council Tax until 1 November of the same year, whether or not they take up employment during that time)."
Which is from the governments own website https://www.gov.uk/council-tax/who-has-to-pay

I would like to find out how widespread this practice is.

Thank you. I will follow this up with my English council. My child left college in June, they were 19. The council tax discount was removed the day their course ended, so that doesn't sound right. On their website the 1st Nov date is listed. I hadn't spotted that before.

I have messed that link up, I could have sworn that is where I cut and pasted it from.
It is still there on the Welsh Government sitehttps://www.gov.wales/council-tax-discounts-and-reduction/living-alone

I found my local council website really hard to navigate for this situation (which must happen for lots of people). I did find the 1st November date, but no clear way of claiming. With a 2 hour wait to speak to someone I ended up emailing and they sent me a form to fill in.
It definitely wasn't easy and by the time I got the form, DD had finished college so she had to get the college to sign it when collecting her A level results.

Single person discount ends when you living with another adult who is 18yrs. If the other adult is a full time student send in their student certificate. If receiving child benefit though it is more beneficial to send in the child benefit award as likely to be receiving it longer (usually ends 1st sept even when date of course ending maybe june or july). Still works out as 25% reduction.

I used to work in a Council Tax department and every year we had huge lists of college attendants. The lists are provided by the local schools and colleges. Then we match records and manually set end dates on discounts to tie in with the law. It took months to complete.

It was so long ago. Maybe they have found a way to automate it now.

Alphabeti.
You havent mentioned the disregard from 1st September to 1st November. Did you just not comment on it or are you saying it doesnt exist?