Decision status: Recommendations Approved
Is Key decision?: Yes
Is subject to call in?: No
That it be recommended that Full Council adopts the Council Tax Support (CTS) scheme currently in operation with the inclusion of the amendments detailed below for 2015/16:
1) That the applicable amounts are increased by 1% to keep them in line with inflationary increases to Housing Benefit and other welfare benefits (Appendix 1 to the report)
2) That the non-dependant deductions are frozen at their current rate (Appendix 2 to the report).
3) That the remaining funding allocated to the CTS discretionary fund when it was first introduced in April 2013 is rolled over into 2015/16. This is estimated to be approximately £20k by the end of the year.
Urgent item?: Yes
Report author: Corporate Director Transformation and Resources
Publication date: 21/01/2015
Date of decision: 21/01/2015
Decided at meeting: 21/01/2015 - Executive
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