Reliefs and Discounts

People with disabilities

If you or someone who lives with you needs an extra room or extra space in your home because of a disability, you may be able to get a reduction in your bill. This reduction would be given by putting your home in a lower valuation band. If your home is in Band A, you may still qualify for a reduction. Please contact the Council for further information if you think you may qualify.

Discounts

If only one adult lives in a property, there will be a discount of 25%. Discounts will apply in relation groups of people including students, student nurses, youth training trainees and the severely mentally impaired. If you think you may be entitled to a discount, you should contact the Council.

Council Tax Benefit

Council Tax benefit helps people on low incomes pay their Council Tax bills. For instance, if you are on Income Support, you will normally pay no Council Tax. You may qualify for benefit if you work and if your income is low in relation to your circumstances. Please contact:

1. Local Authority Tenants: your Local Estate Office.

2. Owner occupiers and Private Tenants: Benefits Section, Lambpit Street, Wrexham. Telephone 01978 292032

3. Council tenants should telephone (01978) 292033.

Exempt Dwellings

Most dwellings will be subject to Council Tax, but some will be exempt and there will be no Council Tax to pay on them. These include properties where the only residents are students, severely mentally impaired persons and empty properties which:

• are substantially unfurnished (exempt for up to six months).

• are owned by a charity (for up to six months).

• are left empty by someone who has gone into prison, hospital or a nursing residential care home.

• are waiting for probate to be granted (and for up to six months after grant of probate).

• forms part of a single property with another dwelling, being the residence of a dependant relative "granny annexe".

• Are uninhabitable or undergoing repair/alterations (are exempt for a maximum of 12 months).

If you think your property may be exempt you should contact the Council Tax Section at Lambpit Street, Wrexham or telephone 01978 292031.