PART 8Amount of reduction

Amount of extended council tax reduction

70.—(1) For any week during the period of entitlement to extended council tax reduction the amount of council tax reduction to which the person is entitled is the higher of—

(a)the amount of council tax reduction to which the person was entitled in the last reduction week before the person or the person’s partner ceased to be entitled to a qualifying income-related benefit;

(b)the amount of council tax reduction to which the person would be entitled for any reduction week during the period of entitlement to extended council tax reduction if regulation 68 (extended council tax reduction) did not apply to the person; or

(c)the amount of council tax reduction to which the person’s partner would be entitled if regulation 68 did not apply to the person.

(2) Paragraph (1) does not apply in the case of a mover.

(3) Where a person is entitled to extended council tax reduction under this regulation and the person’s partner applies for council tax reduction, that partner is not entitled to council tax reduction during the other partner’s period of entitlement to extended council tax reduction.