The Council Tax Reduction Schemes and Prescribed Requirements (Wales) Regulations 2013 No. 3029 (W. 301)

SCHEDULE 1 Determining eligibility for a reduction under an authority’s scheme, amount of reduction and calculation of income and capital: pensioners

PART 5 Extended reductions: pensioners

Duration of extended reduction period (qualifying contributory benefits): pensioners

33.—(1) Where an applicant is entitled to an extended reduction (qualifying contributory benefits), the extended reduction period starts on the day immediately following the day in which the applicant, or the applicant’s partner, ceased to be entitled to a qualifying contributory benefit.

(2) The extended reduction period ends—

(a) at the end of a period of four weeks; or

(b) on the date on which the applicant who is receiving the extended reduction (qualifying contributory benefits) has no liability for council tax, if that occurs first.