Decision details

The Executive resolved as follows:

1. To note the impact of the scheme to date.

2. To recommend Council to agree the Council Tax Reduction Scheme 2018/19 as set out in Appendix 2d, to the Executive report.

3. 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%. 

4. 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. 

5. 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.