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whohasmynameuk
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I have recently started to research the cost of moving out of my parents house. I like the idea of owning my own house and living by myself. I read on another ds thread about water rates and someone said that if you live by yourself you get a slight discount. I told my sister this and she told me that if you call the council they will give you a slight discount on council tax, is that true?
Is there anything else you can get discounted as a single occupant?
Is there anything else you can get discounted as a single occupant?
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As far as water rates go, as a single person you are probably better off with a metered supply where you pay for what you use. If you moved to a property with a water meter you wouldn't have any choice anyway!
I'm not aware of any other single person discounts though.
Council tax you get 25% off.
Water is a trickier one, the water companies really want you to have a meter, and you sort of get a discount that way in that you will use less being on your own, and I have heard some companies have a low use category for the standing charge. If you live in a house that can't have a meter, for example you are on a shared supply from the stop cock in the pavement, then you can apply to go on the "Assessed Usage Charge", which does have a single person discount component.
It's somewhere just under £20 a month.. £230 a year or so.
Wot he said.
I remember moving from a 3 bed house in North London in early 2002, my Thames Water bill was about £22 a month, and my council tax was £128 a month. In Conwy North Wales where I moved to, Welsh Water charged nearly £700 a year £68 a month! My council tax was £226 a year, and they didn't have a monthly payment program. In those days the Welsh did not put properties into Bands as the English did. In 2006 they Banded their properties under the English system and my council tax went up to £900 a year :eek:
Rated water bills do vary greatly throughout the country. Thames Water has always been a cheaper whilst where I live in South Kent we are over £700pa. Just gone on to metered so hoping that will be a bit cheaper.
It was your thread striing, and very useful to know too. At the mo I am just trying to get a rough idea of what things will cost me to see how poor I will be at the end of the month when everything is paid for. I agree about the council tax although even at 25% that would would work out at about £31 so I should be able to afford heating lol.
I have always lived with my parents so I just want stand on my own 2 feet for a bit. It doesn't feel that scary either.
In Folkestone my water bills are 8 pounds with Veolia and 9 pounds with Southern water a month.
Mine are just a little more.....£10 and £12 per month. I live on my own and geting a water meter dramatically cut my bills
I went on a meter eventually because we ended up spending large amounts of time away in London. My water bill on the meter was £145 a year!
It would do on the assessed charged:
http://www.thameswater.co.uk/cps/rde/xchg/corp/hs.xsl/568.htm
but to get on that they have to conclude you can't have a meter.