Exemption from Council Tax & Use of Bins

[Consumer50]

My father has moved into a care home leaving his house empty & so I am planning to apply for a Council tax exemption on his behalf.

 

I regularly visit the house to keep it and the garden maintained. Once I have applied for an exemption will I be permitted to continue using the bin service? I cannot find anything on the Council's website and their outsourced call centre is extremely hard to contact.

[Consumer50]

My reading is that it's indefinite so long as he is permanently in a nursing home (different to deceased when I think the exemption is for a limited time as you describe).

 

Anyhow, you are confident that it's OK to use the bins?

 

Cheers

[Consumer50]

I guess I am thinking of both as I need to keep the garden under control as well as de-clutter the house.

 

It looks as if my father was paying an annual fee by DD for the garden bin - so do you reckon I will just need to continue with that? Should be easy enough as I can just leave the DD intact - unless the exemption causes it to be automatically cancelled.

[Consumer50]

OK thanks.

 

It seems that the consensus is that I really need to persevere with the call centre (council tax has been outsourced to Capita & I tend to give up after listening to music for 30 minutes). I might try one of my father's local councillors - they may have contacts that the public do not.