Debt help where you live

Areas we cover

One page per billing authority. If your town is not listed, it is almost certainly inside one that is — England has around 300 councils and several thousand towns.

Towns inside a larger authority

These are the ones people most often search for by name. None of them has its own council:

• Bilston — billed by City of Wolverhampton Council
• Halesowen — billed by Dudley Metropolitan Borough Council
• Oldbury — billed by Sandwell Metropolitan Borough Council
• Smethwick — billed by Sandwell Metropolitan Borough Council
• Stourbridge — billed by Dudley Metropolitan Borough Council
• Tipton — billed by Sandwell Metropolitan Borough Council
• West Bromwich — billed by Sandwell Metropolitan Borough Council
• Willenhall — billed by Walsall Council

We deliberately do not publish a page per town or per postcode. A page that repeats the same national information with the place name changed helps nobody, and generating them at scale is exactly what search engines treat as scaled content abuse. We build an area page when we can say something specific and checkable about that council.

Not in the West Midlands?

Use the council finder to identify your billing authority, then ask it for Council Tax Reduction, its Household Support Fund and a section 13A discretionary reduction by name. Those three are the most commonly missed.