Council tax and Student

[hessey50]

My son is a full time university student and as such an "unperson" re council tax,  lived at home till recently moved out but may return later depending on his study path all the time to date he has been a full time student.

Despite to their knowledge my only getting pension income I get an annual "check" form the Council who have got very excited as to exactly what date he left  stopping benefit  though now reissued,

A long time ago I seem to remember a case re having not promptly advised housing benefit of something that made no difference as in this case: not a counted adult as a student and not a counted adult as not there and if he returned would still be not counted I would simply send them the usual Council Tax form from the uni.

He get a tuition fees loan and has access to student loan funding, they clearly have accessed his bank or tax records after they were informed he wasn't at my address

Anyone remember or have thoughts on this?

[dx100uk]

4 hours ago, hessey50 said:

they clearly have accessed to his bank or tax records after they were informed he wasn't at my address

nope 'they' dont have access , however he had to fill out forms when applying for uni and his halls/digs/residency whilst at uni to prove he is exempt from ctax there.?

dx

[hessey50]

No he didnt

he merely got a university exemption student number that the local council accepted as him being a full time student 

I provided this to them and that was that, 

He had documentation that he was not liable, I stated he was living with me and yes they do, I worked for the local council and they did.

  its not he has to provide a landlords address,  its he has to provide status as exempt to landlord or parents once post 18 and electoral role after 16, despite them not having a vote.

Edited September 8, 2023 by dx100uk
tried to add some punctuation!! and sentence/line spacing

[dx100uk]

please try and remember to use punctuation and sentence spacing, its very difficult to understand your posts if they are one block of text, with zero sentences and punctuation. this is not facebook

 

dx

[unclebulgaria67]

Yes councils have access to different data and they ask questions to assess entitlement changes.

What is the question you are needing an answer for?

 

[hessey50]

Hi I seemed to remember some time ago there was a case where the Council tried to prosecute a claimant for not telling them of a non relevant change which made no difference to the claim.

 I wondered if anyone remembered it?

[unclebulgaria67]

If you are not happy with any organisation, you should register a complaint and ask the questions you want answered.  

Change only happens if enough people complain about problems they experience. Even if they don't receive the outcome they want, the number of complaints received is recorded.