Decision Maker: Executive
Decision status: Recommmend Forward to Council
Is Key decision?: Yes
Is subject to call in?: No
Decision:
The Executive resolved as
follows:
- To
note the impact of the scheme to date.
- To
recommend Council to agree the Council Tax Reduction Scheme 2018/19
as set out in Appendix 2d, to the Executive report.
- To
recommend to Council that the reduction applied to working age
claimants remains the same as the 2017/18 Scheme agreed by Council
on 25thJanuary 2017 and that the main elements and method of
calculating awards will be the same with the exception
of:
- Minor amendments to continue to align the Scheme to Housing
Benefit.
- The provision of additional support for low income groups of
claimants (in receipt of Income Support, or Income-Based Jobseekers
Allowance, or Income-Related Employment Support Allowance) by
amending the percentage reduction applied to their award from
27.11% to 13.56%.
- To
recommend that the Council agrees to continue to operate a
Discretionary Discount Policy to be awarded in cases of exceptional
hardship as set out at Appendix 2a, to the Executive
report.
- To
note at this point in time the Department for Communities and Local
Government may still issue changes to the known position for the
Pensioner National Scheme. Required changes would be incorporated
into the final Scheme presented for adoption at Council on 24
January 2018.
Publication date: 13/12/2017
Date of decision: 11/12/2017
Decided at meeting: 11/12/2017 - Executive
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