Decision details

Scheme setting process for 2015/16, including:

1…Consider amendments;

2…Finalise scheme; and

3…Approve scheme.

(1)        That the Local Council Tax Support scheme for 2015/16 should aim to be cost neutral for the Council be agreed as a general principle;

(2)        That the following elements of the scheme be approved for consultation purposes:

            (a)        The maximum Local Council Tax Support for people of working age           be reduced from 80%;

            (b)        Child Benefit be included as income for people of working age;

            (c)        A requirement that people of working age to have been resident in   the Epping Forest District for a period of time before they were eligible to      receive Local Council Tax Support; and

            (d)        a similar waiver of the residency qualification be applied to members          of the Armed Forces as contained        in section 14.3 (a) to (d) of the Housing         Allocations Scheme; and

(3)        That a public consultation exercise on the 2015/16 scheme be undertaken between August and October 2014.