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13. Where a person is awarded council tax benefit determined in accordance with regulation 62 and Schedule 2 (alternative maximum council tax benefit) the decision notice shall include a statement as to—
(a)the normal weekly amount of council tax, which amount may be rounded to the nearest penny;
(b)the normal weekly amount of the alternative maximum council tax benefit, which amount may be rounded to the nearest penny;
(c)the gross income or incomes and the rate of benefit which apply under Schedule 2;
(d)the first day of entitlement to benefit;
(e)the gross income of any second adult used to determine the rate of the alternative maximum council tax benefit or if any such adult is on income support, state pension credit or an income-based jobseeker’s allowance;
(f)the claimant’s duty to notify any change of circumstances which might affect his entitlement to, or the amount of the alternative maximum council tax benefit and, without prejudice to the extent of the duty owed under regulation 74 (duty to notify changes of circumstances) the kind of change of circumstances which are to be notified, either upon the notice or by reference to some other document available to the claimant free of charge on application,
and in any case where the amount to which sub-paragraph (a) or (b) refers disregards fractions of a penny, the notice shall include a statement to that effect.
14. Where a person is not awarded council tax benefit in accordance with regulation 62 and Schedule 2 (alternative maximum council tax benefit)—
(a)on the grounds that the gross income or as the case may be the aggregate gross incomes, of any second adult or adults in the claimant’s dwelling is too high, the decision notice shall include a statement as to the matters set out in paragraphs 13(a), (c) and (e);
(b)on the grounds that the appropriate maximum council tax benefit is higher than the alternative maximum council tax benefit, the decision notice shall include a statement as to the matters set out in paragraph 15 below;
(c)for any reason not referred to in sub-paragraphs (a) and (b), the decision notice shall include a statement as to why no award has been made.
15. Where the amount of a claimant’s council tax benefit in respect of a day is the greater of the appropriate maximum council tax benefit and the alternative maximum council tax benefit in his case the notice shall in addition to the matters set out in paragraphs 9, 10 or 13, as the case may be, include a statement as to—
(a)the amount of whichever is the lesser of the appropriate maximum council tax benefit or the alternative maximum council tax benefit in his case, which amount may be rounded to the nearest penny; and
(b)that this amount has not been awarded in consequence of the award of council tax benefit at a higher rate,
and in any case where the amount to which sub-paragraph (a) refers disregards fractions of a penny, the notice shall include a statement to that effect.
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