Council Tax Increase as a Result of Migration to UC

Hi
I have received my migration letter confirming I have moved to UC from ESA. I will receive transitional protection of £41.12 for a year, in other words the amount I'm getting has gone down by £41.12, but they'll honour it for a year, after that tough! Not great, but I can absorb that. However I just received my Council Tax ammendment: I now have to pay £93.00 per month!!! So my income per month is not protected, it's just gone down by £93.00.

I've phoned the council and, as they are using the correct UC figure, there's nothing they can do. I REALLY need some advice over this. There seems little point in appealing as the council are using the correct figure. I'm a single mum, who's disabled, with no family support. This is a huge blow. I feel utterly sick and I'm shaking.

Any help would be appreciated.

I have just had the same experience. I've just finished migration, in fact I received first UC payment today, and received a £244 council tax bill. My council tax support has gone from 100% to 15% as it's based on income and both new style ESA and UC are classed as income. The transitional protection puts me in the higher earning bracket therefore I will need to find an extra £104 per month, on top of £91 rent per month... So while my new style ESA and UC amount to roughly the same as my income related ESA, my rent and council tax are now costing £195.00 per month. So basically the idea that a disabled person needs a little more money to live on, is clearly no longer respected, and they are trying to take it back from us ASAP, in any way that they can. I can't afford £195 per month, so therefore my home is now in jeopardy. Has anyone challenged this or is it literally the 'new rules' as my local council tax officer told me today?

Slightly different situation in my case. My mum gets housing benefit and council tax support. She is retired. So they were taking about £15 off of her housing benefit as a non dependent deduction. But when i came off ESA because my savings went over the limit I assumed becuase my income has gone down it won’t make any difference to council tax support. I knew they would continue to penalise her with the housing benefit because nil income and ESA has the same non dependent deduction.

When they sent out a rent/council tax tax review form they hit her with a back payment of council tax as it turns out that me not getting ESA reduces her council tax reduction entitlement.

So I’m wondering if councils are treating council tax differently for those who are migrated from ESA to UC. Just another scam to hit the unemployed, sick and disabled and wear us down I suspect.