When will council tax support be paid?
How will I be paid?
You will not receive a payment. Council tax support will reduce the amount of council tax you have to pay.
When will council tax support start?
Generally a claim will start from the Monday following the date the claim is made, although there may be circumstances when a claim can start earlier depending on when a tenancy starts.
Can you backdate my claim?
Council tax support can be backdated in certain circumstances.
Working age claimants, can only have their new claim backdated by a maximum period of twenty six weeks .You will need to prove that you had ‘good cause’ for not claiming sooner and that ‘good cause’ existed throughout the whole of the period you are claiming backdated benefit for.
For pensionable age claimants the maximum period for backdating is three months. However Pensioner claimants do not have to prove ‘good cause’.
You can request that your council tax support is backdated on the application form, when you first make your claim or when you receive your decision notice.
What is an extended payment?
Extended payment is an extra four weeks of council tax support which you may be entitled to, if you or your partner start work after receiving certain state benefits for six months. We pay this at the same rate as you were getting before you started work.