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UK households with certain conditions are being handed 100 per cent council tax discounts. Labour Party government rules will hand 100 per cent discounts for specific groups, including full-time students and individuals with severe mental impairments.

Money Saving Expert, the site founded by BBC and ITV star Martin Lewis, said: "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.

"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.

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