reduction in council tax *scotland*

[breakingbadfan]

Hi I was wondering if I would be entitled to anything I've recently lost my job and have only jsa now at the minute and need to continue to pay for everything so have cut all my costs possible, but still a few big ones there I'm working on, my two sons live with me and I have no partner so I think he is considered the bill payer now? he is 21 and he is helping me as much as possible but I don't see it fair on him as he was saving up to move out and now this would it be possible to get a reduction on anything or would the council just take his money directly instead?

www.gov.uk/apply-council-tax-reduction

Your son will not be the main tax bill payer as you are the tenant/homeowner but his income will be taken into account in any application for ctr as a non dependant deduction. This means the higher his income the more he would be expected to contribute to the bill. The reasoning behind this being that whatever he pays towards your bill will still be far less than he would be paying if he lived alone. Hth

Ah according to local council website thanks for that link due to the non dependant income there will be zero reduction if ive got the right idea of what he earnsnso if he moves out then I'll get a reduction maybe ach my head hurts