Issue - meetings
Council Tax Exceptional Hardship Policy
Meeting: 12/10/2022 - Cabinet (Item 77)
77 Council Tax Exceptional Hardship Policy 
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Purpose:
To consider and approve the implementation of an Exception Hardship Policy to ensure additional financial assistance is available to help with Council Tax payments to those residents who are in severe financial hardship
Recommendation:
That Cabinet resolves to:
a) Approve the Revenues spend to support this scheme;
b) Approve the implementation of the Exceptional Hardship Policy as a matter of urgency;
c) Note the additional revenue given by Oxfordshire County Council in support of this Policy; and,
d) Grant delegated authority to the Group Manager for Resident Services to approve all payments made under the Exceptional Hardship Policy.
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Minutes:
To consider and approve the implementation of an Exception Hardship Policy to ensure additional financial assistance is available to help with Council Tax payments to those residents who are in severe financial hardship.
Councillor Levy the Cabinet Member for Finance proposed that the Cabinet approve the Policy, this was seconded by Councillor Enright the Deputy Leader and Cabinet Member for Economic Development.
Councillor Levy stated that there was a revenue dedicated to this and it would be limited, it was supported and matched by the County Council, Officers would have authority to grant applications and that the scheme was well thought out to assist the residents in need.
Councillor Enright thanked the Officers for their expertise and determination to support our Town and Parish Councils, it was good joint working.
a) Approve the Revenues spend to support this scheme;
b) Approve the implementation of the Exceptional Hardship Policy as a matter of urgency;
c) Note the additional revenue given by Oxfordshire County Council in support of this Policy; and,
d) Grant delegated authority to the Group Manager for Resident Services to approve all payments made under the Exceptional Hardship Policy.
Cabinet resolved to approve the policy.