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Council Tax Reduction Scheme for 2020/21

Meeting: 05/01/2021 - Executive (Item 6)

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Minutes:

The Executive Member for Corporate Resources presented the report to notify members of a proposed change to the Council Tax Reduction Scheme for 2021/22 and the supporting Discretionary Discount and Exceptional Hardship policy.

 

The Revenue, Benefits and Fraud Manager highlighted the main change to the Council Tax Reduction Scheme which was to increase flexibility to make provision to disregard any emergency increases to the levels of welfare benefits made by Government.

 

RECOMMENDED to Council that:

 

(1)            the current Council Tax Reduction Scheme be adopted for the year 2021/22 with the one proposed change set out in this report; and

 

(2)            the revised Discretionary Discount and Exceptional Hardship Scheme (see appendix A) be adopted from 1 April 2021.

 

The vote was unanimous.