Issue - meetings

The Section 151 Officer submitted a report, which explained the requirement to annually consider whether to revise or replace the Council’s existing Council Tax Reduction Scheme and the requirement to either adopt a new scheme or re-adopt the existing scheme by 31 January 2019.

Resolved that:

1)              The Council Tax Reduction Schemes and Prescribed Requirements (Wales) Regulations 2013 (“the Prescribed Requirements Regulations”) by the National Assembly for Wales (NAfW) on 26 November 2013, as amended be noted;

2)              The amendments to “the Prescribed Requirements Regulations” contained in the Council Tax Reduction Schemes (Prescribed Requirements and Default Scheme) (Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 2018, considered and approved by NAfW on 8 January 2019 be noted;

3)              The outcome of the consultation exercise undertaken by the Council in November 2018 on the discretionary areas of the current scheme be noted;

4)              The current scheme (2018/2019) in relation to the discretionary areas (as set out in section 3 of the report) remain unchanged from 2019/2020;

5)              The scheme as set out in section 3 of the report be adopted and any amendments to the regulations made by NAfW be reflected in the scheme.

Note: Councillor P M Black asked the following question:

“Paragraph 5.2 of the report states that the estimated shortfall between funding and Council Tax Reduction paid to recipients is £1,270k.  How does this compare to previous years?”

The Interim Deputy Chief Finance Officer stated that a written response would be provided.