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COUNCIL TAX REDUCTION SCHEME 2019/2020
The Executive resolved as
follows:
- To
note the impact of the Scheme to date as set out in paragraphs 5.6
and 5.7.
- To
recommend Council to agree the Council Tax Reduction Scheme 2019/20
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 2018/19 Scheme agreed by Council
on 24 January 2018 and that the main elements and method of
calculating awards will be the same with the exception
of:
•
Ensuring that applicants who are protected under the current scheme
continue to be protected to the same level of support when they
move to Universal Credit
•
Extension of the group of customers who pay 13.56% to claimants or
partners who are:
•
in receipt of Jobseeker’s Allowance Contribution
Based.
•
in receipt of Main Phase Employment and
Support Allowance and are in the Work Related Activity
Group.
•
in receipt of Maximum Universal Credit
and neither employed, self-employed or in receipt of any other
income which is taken into account when calculating their Universal
Credit award (such as an Occupational Pension or other unearned
income).
•
in receipt of Universal Credit which
includes either the limited capability for work and/ or work
related activity.
- 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 Ministry of Housing, Communities and
Local Government may still issue changes to the known position for
the National Pensioner Scheme. Required changes would then be
incorporated into the final Scheme presented for adoption at
Council on 30 January 2019.