00:00This is about unpaid carers who have to care over 35 hours a week for someone who isn't their spouse
00:06or a child under 18. There are 5 million people in this circumstance. This is the backbone of our
00:12country. This is an army of people taking the burden off the NHS and taking costs away from
00:16the state. Now they are entitled to a discount on their council tax if they're just two of you
00:21living in the house and one of you's a carer of 25% or in some circumstances 50%. We spot
00:27check councils websites and one in five minimum councils websites have the wrong information
00:33about what are the eligible benefits of the person that you're caring for. So my message today is if
00:40you are a carer and you've checked whether you're entitled to this discount on your council's
00:45website, don't trust it. That is not the correct information. Go to Carers UK or Money Saving
00:52Expert where we've put all the correct information for you. When I was digging this, we went through
00:58and I worked through what are the political swings of each of those councils and it was
01:03almost in the exact proportion to the councils in the country. So, you know, it's the same
01:07proportion of overall change, same Labour, same Lib Dems, same Tories. So it's not, it's not
01:12political, it's crapness.
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