What if I miss the deadline for a Council Tax and Housing Benefit appeal?
We will offer you an explanation of our decision, if we have not already done this. We will also look at the decision again if we have not already done so. If, at this stage, we agree that the original decision is wrong and the new decision is to your advantage, we will send you a new decision and your appeal will stop. If you do not agree with the new decision, your appeal rights start all over again. If we agree that the original decision is wrong, but the new decision is not to your advantage, we will send you a new decision. Your appeal will continue against the new decision and you will have another calendar month to comment on the new decision. If we do not change the decision, we will send your appeal, along with an explanation of the law and the facts used to make the decision, to the Appeals Service. We will also include any other relevant papers. We will send a copy of the appeal papers to you and your representative (if you have one). You will also receive a form called TAS1
