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As part of the welfare reform changes, Council Tax Benefit was abolished in April 2013 and replaced with a local scheme called Council Tax Support (also known as Council Tax reductions). Contact your local council to see if you qualify. Certain people won't be affected by the changes, including many people of pension age.
The support you get may depend on factors such as which benefits you receive, your age, your income, savings, who you live with and how much Council Tax you pay. You may get more Council Tax Support if you receive a disability or carer's benefit.
If you get the Guarantee Credit part of Pension Credit, you may get your Council Tax paid in full. If you don't get Guarantee Credit but have a low income and less than £16,000 in savings, you may still get some help.
Use our online Council Tax factsheet (PDF 400 KB)
The following guide is only applicable to people over pension age.
More money in your pocket: a guide to claiming benefits for people over pension age (PDF 3 MB)
If you are under pension age, please download the following guide and factsheet.
Claiming benefits: a guide for people of working age (PDF 1 MB)
Benefits for people under State Pension age factsheet (PDF 298 KB)
Set your location to see what Age UK offers in your local area.
Council tax (PDF 400KB)
More money in your pocket (PDF 3MB)
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Most downloads on this website are PDFs. We use this format to ensure that the document looks the same on everyone’s computer (website pages, by contrast, appear differently depending on how people have set their computer up).
Computers use a program called Adobe Acrobat Reader to download PDFs. If you try clicking on a link to download a PDF and it doesn’t work, you will need to install Adobe Acrobat Reader onto your computer.
The process is quite straightforward and is free.
PDFs cannot be changed. If you need to be able to type into a downloaded document (for example, if we are offering a letter template that you need to put your name on) we will provide it as a Microsoft Word document rather than a PDF. You can then download it, type into it and save it to your computer.
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