Issue - meetings
COUNCIL TAX REDUCTION SCHEME 2022/2023
Meeting: 06/12/2021 - Executive (Item 2.)
2. COUNCIL TAX REDUCTION SCHEME 2022/2023 
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To receive an update on the impact of the Council Tax Reduction Scheme since its introduction in 2013/14 and to recommend to Council the proposals for the Council Tax Reduction Scheme for 2022/23.
Additional documents:
- Appendix 2a Council Tax and Business Rates Discretionary Discount Policy, item 2.
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- Appendix 2b Blackpool Equality Analysis 2022-23, item 2.
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- Appendix 2c Council Tax Reduction Scheme, item 2.
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- EX61 CTRS 22-23, item 2.
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Decision:
The Executive resolved as follows:
- To note the impact of the Scheme to date as set out in paragraphs 6.7 and 6.8 of the Executive report.
- To recommend Council to agree the Council Tax Reduction Scheme 2022/23 as set out in Appendix 2c, to the Executive report.
- To recommend to Council that the reduction applied to working age claimants remains the same as the 2021/22 Scheme agreed by Council on 27 January 2021 and that the main elements and method of calculating awards will be the same.
- To recommend Council to agree 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 Levelling Up, Housing and Communities 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 9 February 2022.
