Council Financial Support - covid19

Info from the council:

Derby City Council is committed to supporting residents and businesses and to make sure that any support is passed through to them as soon as practically possible in these unprecedented times.

Measures for residents

The Council’s efforts will focus on those residents facing increased hardship from the fast changing circumstances. This includes Council Tax Support Scheme (CTS) , hardship fund payments for those on Council tax support, flexible payment of council tax for those in need and all recovery action against households, including for prior years, has been initially suspended until Tuesday 30th June 2020.

more details: https://news.derby.gov.uk/financial-support-for-residents-and-businesses/

Measures for businesses

The Government announced a series of support measures for businesses in the Budget and in more recent announcements to support businesses respond to the Covid-19 pandemic.

We will continue to update our  Derby City Council business pages with further details as we receive them.

As with the list of measures for residents we are aiming to implement these measures as soon as possible but we need to ask for your patience as these are major changes to our systems and payment processes. It will help us to help you if you could contact us by using business.rates@derby.gov.uk  as set out on the business rates enquiry page . If you are unable to email please call on 01332 642428

more details: https://news.derby.gov.uk/financial-support-for-residents-and-businesses/