Decision Maker: Cabinet, Council
Decision status: Recommendations approved
Is Key decision?: Yes
Is subject to call in?: Yes
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.
Report author: Janet Twinn
Publication date: 24/07/2014
Date of decision: 21/07/2014
Decided at meeting: 21/07/2014 - Cabinet
Effective from: 01/08/2014
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