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

SCHEDULE 6 Determining eligibility for a reduction under an authority’s scheme, amount of reduction and calculation of income and capital: persons who are not pensioners

PART 5 Extended reductions: persons who are not pensioners

Extended reductions (qualifying contributory benefits)-movers: persons who are not pensioners

42.—(1) This paragraph applies—

(a) to a mover; and

(b) from the Monday following the day of the move.

(2) The amount of the extended reduction (qualifying contributory benefits) awarded from the Monday from which this paragraph applies until the end of the extended reduction period is to be the amount of reduction under the authority’s (the first authority’s) scheme which was awarded to the mover for the last reduction week before the mover, or the mover’s partner, ceased to be entitled to a qualifying contributory benefit.

(3) Where a mover’s liability to pay council tax in respect of the new dwelling is to a second billing authority, the extended reduction (qualifying contributory benefits) may take the form of a payment from the first authority to—

(a) that second authority; or

(b) the mover directly.