Issue - meetings

RECOMMENDED:     That the draft Council Tax Support scheme for 2022/2023 which went to public consultation be approved as the final Council Tax Support scheme for 2022/2023.

Reason for Decision

To ensure a CTS scheme for working age people for 2022/2023 is agreed by full Council by 11 March 2022.

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Cabinet considered a report which set out that the council must implement a Council Tax Support (CTS) scheme for its working age residents for each financial year.  The council had to first decide on a draft CTS scheme which was open for public consultation, and then must agree a final CTS scheme, taking into account the consultation responses.

Since 2017, authority had been delegated to the council Leader, in consultation with the relevant Portfolio Holder and the s151 Officer, to agree the draft CTS scheme. The draft CTS scheme was open for consultation from 19 October 2021 to 29 November 2021 and the 14 responses received were included in the report.

The final CTS scheme for 2022/2023 was a continuation of the 2021/2022 CTS scheme, with an uplift to the maximum weekly CTS that could be paid under the scheme. 

The current limit of 75% would increase by 9% to 84% for 2022/2023 onwards.  This brought the council in line with several other Norfolk authorities, and made the CTS scheme more generous at a time when working age people may still be financially impacted by Covid-19

In debating the report and recommendations Cabinet supported the increase proposed and noted that the number of people on middle incomes it supported would increase and thanked officers for the work carried out and the information provided.

RECOMMENDED:     That the draft Council Tax Support scheme for 2022/2023 which went to public consultation be approved as the final Council Tax Support scheme for 2022/2023.

Reason for Decision

To ensure a CTS scheme for working age people for 2022/2023 is agreed by full Council by 11 March 2022.