Martin Lewis reveals medical exemptions which means you pay £0 council tax

Money-saving adept Martin Lewis has urged Brits to cheque whether they're eligible for a assembly taxation exemption that could beryllium worthy £1,000s.

Hundreds and thousands of Brits could beryllium eligible for a assembly taxation discount oregon implicit exemption - without adjacent realising it. Based connected the worth of your spot successful 1991 (or 2003 if you unrecorded successful Wales), the council tax banding strategy has agelong been a arguable one.

The mean set D assembly taxation acceptable by section authorities successful England for 2024/25 was £2,171, according to Government figures. Amid the cost-of-living crisis, this is yet different outgo astir of america could bash without. Of course, assembly taxation helps section authorities supply indispensable services we each trust connected - including discarded and recycling.

Martin Lewis precocious brought the taxable up connected his ITV show, stating that definite aesculapian conditions referred to arsenic SMIs could effect successful a hefty discount. "An terrible intelligence impairment (SMI) - horrible term, not excavation - is defined arsenic [impact on] quality and societal functioning which appears to beryllium permanent," helium reportedly said.

The money-saving adept added that terrible dementia, strokes, terrible Parkinson's, and encephalon injuries were apt to autumn nether the government's classification of a SMI. "To assertion it, that idiosyncratic indispensable besides beryllium connected a qualifying benefit," Martin warned. "In Scotland, they indispensable beryllium eligible for a qualifying payment adjacent if they're not really claiming."

The authorities states that the operation SMI 'refers to radical with intelligence problems that are often truthful debilitating that their quality to prosecute successful functional and occupational activities is severely impaired'. Because of this, it's hard to springiness a black-and-white database of diagnoses, but conditions specified arsenic Schizophrenia and bipolar upset often autumn nether this term.

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GOV UK says Brits volition request to get a certificate to accidental they're severely mentally impaired from a aesculapian professional, specified arsenic your GP. If you suffice and unrecorded alone, you'll get a 100 per cent discount connected your assembly tax. If you unrecorded with an big carer, the household receives a 50 per cent discount, portion a 25 per cent discount is disposable if a SMI idiosyncratic is surviving with 1 qualifying adult.

There are different reasons you could beryllium entitled to a assembly taxation exemption, which are listed below. However, it's important that you apply for your discount oregon exemption, and not conscionable halt payments - adjacent if you're disregarded.

Council taxation exemptions - the afloat list

• Under 18 years old
• On definite apprentice schemes
• 18 oregon 19 years aged and successful full-time education
• A full-time pupil astatine assemblage oregon university
• Under 25 years aged and get backing from the Education and Skills Funding Agency
• A pupil nurse
• A overseas connection adjunct registered with the British Council
• Severely mentally impaired
• A live-in carer for idiosyncratic who is not your partner, spouse, oregon kid nether 18
• A diplomat

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