That it be recommended that Council adopt the Council Tax Support (CTS) scheme currently in operation with the inclusion of the amendments detailed below for 2016/17:

1)    Applicable amounts for working age claimants are frozen in line with the national income related benefit rates (state pension age rates are contained within the prescribed regulations).

2)    That the remaining funding allocated to the CTS discretionary fund when it was first introduced in April 2013 is rolled over into 2016/17. This is estimated to be approximately £17k by the end of the financial year.