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Council Tax Reduction Scheme

Meeting: 03/07/2018 - Cabinet (Item 552)

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The Cabinet is requested to consider the agenda report and to make the resolution set out below:

 

(1)  That the Director of Residents Services after consultation with the Cabinet Member for Residents Services be authorised to prepare and consult on a Council Tax Reduction (CTR) Scheme for 2019-2020 with the final proposed scheme being brought back to the Cabinet in November 2018. 

 

(2)  Following a review of the current CTR scheme officers have identified some minor amendments that are required in order to ensure that the scheme provides the same level of support that it has in previous years. It is proposed that consultation on this and the general principles of the scheme remaining the same be carried out.

Decision:

RESOLVED

 

(1)  That the Director of Residents Services after consultation with the Cabinet Member for Residents Services be authorised to prepare and consult on a Council Tax Reduction (CTR) Scheme for 2019-2020 with the final proposed scheme being brought back to the Cabinet in November 2018. 

 

(2)  Following a review of the current CTR scheme officers have identified some minor amendments that are required in order to ensure that the scheme provides the same level of support that it has in previous years. It is proposed that consultation on this and the general principles of the scheme remaining the same be carried out.

 

Minutes:

The Cabinet received and considered the agenda report and its appendix.

 

This item was presented by Mr Barrow.

 

Mrs Rogers was in attendance for this matter.

 

Mr Barrow summarised section 3 of the report with particular reference to the introduction and development of CDC’s council tax reduction scheme since 2013 and the advent in 2018 of a banded scheme for Universal Credit claimants, although the full impact of that scheme could not yet be meaningfully assessed because of the delay in rolling out the Universal Credit Full Live Service in Chichester district (para 3.5 of the report). The banded scheme was designed to support the most economically vulnerable in the community. CDC was not proposing any significant changes to the banded scheme but the annual consultation would inter alia seek views on minor changes as set out in paras 3.6 and 3.7 of the report. He emphasised that since the introduction of its local scheme CDC had not reduced the level of support provided, which compared strikingly with a large proportion of other councils which had made reductions. 

 

Mrs Rogers did not add to Mr Barrow’s introduction.

 

Members spoke in support of CDC’s proven record to devise and deliver a local scheme which supported the most disadvantaged in the community.

 

Decision

 

The Cabinet voted unanimously on a show of hands to make the resolutions below.

 

RESOLVED

 

(1)  That the Director of Residents Services after consultation with the Cabinet Member for Residents Services be authorised to prepare and consult on a Council Tax Reduction (CTR) Scheme for 2019-2020 with the final proposed scheme being brought back to the Cabinet in November 2018. 

 

(2)  Following a review of the current CTR scheme officers have identified some minor amendments that are required in order to ensure that the scheme provides the same level of support that it has in previous years. It is proposed that consultation on this and the general principles of the scheme remaining the same be carried out.

 


 

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