How council tax reduction is worked out
Protected working age groups
Certain people are protected from some of the changes if they are getting one of the following benefits:
- Severe or Enhanced Disability premium. Disabled Child premium
- Carer premium
- War disablement pension or war widow(er)s pension
You can find more information about the qualifying criteria for the above groups on our working age protected groups page
If you fall into one of the protected groups:
- your reduction will be assessed on 100% of the liability rather than 75%
- the calculation will not be subject to a band D restriction.
- the savings and capital limit will be £16,000. Capital between £6,000 (Working age) or £10,000 (Pension age) to £16,000 will attract a tariff income. A tariff income is where we count part of your savings and capital as income.
