The Money Saving Expert website has currently got an article looking at how hundreds of thousands of people considered to be ‘severely mentally impaired’ in England, Scotland and Wales could be missing out on a council tax discount worth £100s – and even backdated payments worth £1,000s. Below is the intro to the article on their website about the discount, who it’s for and how to claim it (Read the full article on their website)
We’ve been raising awareness of this discount for years now, and many have successfully claimed. See if it can help you too.
What is the ‘severely mentally impaired’ council tax discounts
The ‘severely mentally impaired’ (SMI) council tax discount is a reduction off of a household’s council tax bill, worth, at a minimum, 25%, all the way up to, in some cases, the entire bill being wiped.
‘Severely mentally impaired’ is a horrible term, so we’ll refer to it as SMI for the purposes of this guide.
SMI is a medical diagnosis in itself, but the underlying cause could be a condition such as dementia (including Alzheimer’s), profound learning difficulties, multiple sclerosis, the result of a severe stroke or something else.