Did you know that for very low earners with disabilities council tax is a 50-75% and sometimes 100% tax on wages?

[Gtfc]

Local authorities now administer their own schemes for council tax support/relief and most of them class universal credit as income when calculating eligibility. This means they also class all the parts of universal credit relating to disability that previously were ring fenced, as income. A person in receipt of these and undertaking a small amount of regular work, earning say £100-400 a month, in many local authorities now is no longer eligible for council tax support and must pay the full bill, even if that full bill is the same as their total earnings.

Some local authorities are even counting PIP as income meaning that people eligible for PIP are having to spend their PIP on paying tax.

Surely this is a gross diversion from what these monies are supposed to be used for. What is even the point in having disability benefits if those benefits are spent on local tax?

We were told that we wouldn't be worse off when we switch to UC

My original council tax liability last year was about £20 a month. Because I'm now on universal credit, even though my money has gone down because my rent has gone up, my council tax has doubled. Yet I'm receiving less money this year

My council don't count pip as income thankfully

My local council doesn't count PIP as income.
We do count Universal Credit personal and child allowance though.
Our disabled residents (receiving a qualifying disability benefit) currently get full CTAX support. This is coming to an end though, as we're currently reviewing the system on the basis it's too generous when compared to other councils.
At the same time, CTAX has increased by 33% since 2022 😳.