Merton Council


Council Tax Support – Update to the scheme consultation 2019

Description: 

Each year the Government makes changes to the legislation that governs the calculation and award of the prescribed Council Tax Support (CTS) Scheme for pensioners and Housing Benefit (HB). These changes affect several aspects of these awards and Merton has a commitment to keep the local CTS scheme for non-pensioners aligned to the Government’s schemes. This ensures there are little or no differences between the prescribed scheme and Housing Benefit and the local CTS scheme and residents will get broadly the same CTS as they would have done if Council Tax Benefit still existed. We are consulting on two options relating to updating the scheme. You can have your say by clicking on the 'Take Part' link below.

Summary of results: 

The Council Tax support scheme for 2020/21 was agreed by Cabinet at their meeting in November 2019.

Consultation start date 19 July 2019
Consultation end date 30 August 2019

For more information about this engagement, please contact:

Organisation
Consultation run by: Corporate Services
Contact
Rebecca Dodd