Issue - meetings
Meeting: 05/12/2024 - The Council (Item 9)
9 COUNCIL TAX REDUCTION SCHEME 2025-26 
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To submit
the report of the Cabinet Member for Finance.
Additional documents:
Decision:
i.1.
That
Cyngor Gwynedd’s Local Scheme for the year commencing 1 April 2025 continues as
it was during 2024/25. Therefore, the following conditions (a - c below)
regarding the continuation of the discretionary elements would continue:
a)
To apply a
100% disregard for war disablement pensions, war widows’ pensions and war
widowers’ pensions, for both pensioners and working age claimants.
b)
Not to
increase the extended reduction periods for pensioners and working age
claimants from the standard four weeks in the Prescribed Scheme.
c)
Not to
increase the backdated period for pensioners and working age claimants from the
standard three months contained within the Prescribed Scheme.
2. Where appropriate, to delegate powers to
the Head of Finance Department, in consultation with the Cabinet Member for
Finance, to make minor amendments to the scheme for 2025/26, on condition that
it will not change the substance of the scheme.
Minutes:
The Cabinet Member for Finance, Councillor Paul
Rowlinson, submitted a report requesting the Council to confirm the
continuation of the current Local Scheme to provide
assistance towards paying Council Tax for the year commencing 1 April
2025.
RESOLVED
1.
That Cyngor Gwynedd’s Local Scheme for the year commencing 1 April 2025
continues as it was during 2024/25.
Therefore, the following conditions (a - c below) regarding the
continuation of the discretionary elements would continue:
a)
To apply a 100% disregard for war disablement
pensions, war widows’ pensions and war widowers’ pensions, for both pensioners
and working age claimants.
b)
Not to increase the extended reduction periods for
pensioners and working age claimants from the standard four weeks in the
Prescribed Scheme.
c)
Not to increase the backdated period for pensioners
and working age claimants from the standard three months contained within the
Prescribed Scheme.
2. Where
appropriate, to delegate powers to the Head of Finance Department, in
consultation with the Cabinet Member for Finance, to make minor amendments to
the scheme for 2025/26, on condition that it will not change the substance of
the scheme.