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Important

The online payment system is currently unavailable.

We would advise that customers needing to make a payment to the council use the telephone payment line for:

  • Parking Fines
  • Council Tax
  • Business Rates
  • Housing Benefit Overpayments
  • General Debtors

The telephone number is 0330 008 1605 .

Free SIM cards and data for low income households via The Good Things Foundation, Greater Manchester Data Bank

Tameside Libraries are now part of the Good Things Foundation National Databank, which can offer free SIM cards to adults who cannot afford to access the internet. Residents will normally receive data for up to 6 months.
 If you would like to apply please call our Libraries team on 0161 342 2031.
  
 To be eligible to receive data from the National Databank, you must:

  • Be 18+ years old 
  • AND be from a low-income household 

 And qualify in one or several of the following statements:  

  • Has no access or insufficient access to the internet at home
  • AND/OR has no or insufficient access to the internet when away from the home 
  • AND/OR cannot afford their existing monthly contract or top up 
 
 Find other online centres at  www.onlinecentresnetwork.org/ournetwork/find-centre.
  
 Find out more about  The National Databank
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