The Council Tax Reduction Schemes (Default Scheme) (Wales) Regulations 2012

Amount of extended reduction (qualifying contributory benefits): pensioners

88.—(1) For any week during the extended reduction period the amount of the extended reduction (qualifying contributory benefits) the applicant is entitled to is the greater of—

(a)the amount of council tax reduction to which the applicant was entitled by virtue of falling within class A or B in the last reduction week before the applicant or the applicant’s partner ceased to be entitled to a qualifying contributory benefit;

(b)the amount of reduction under this scheme to which the applicant would be entitled by virtue of falling within class A or B for any reduction week during the extended reduction period, if paragraph 86 (extended reductions (qualifying contributory benefits: pensioners) did not apply to the applicant; or

(c)the amount of reduction under this scheme to which the applicant’s partner would be entitled by virtue of falling within class A or B, if paragraph 86 did not apply to the applicant.

(2) Sub-paragraph (1) does not apply in the case of a mover.

(3) Where an applicant is in receipt of an extended reduction (qualifying contributory benefits) under this paragraph and the applicant’s partner makes an application for a reduction under this scheme, the authority will not award a reduction in pursuance of that application during the extended reduction period.