Council tax support scheme – Slough Borough Council

Reduction scheme consultation

We want your views on potential changes to our council tax reduction scheme. This consultation ends on midnight Thursday 16 February 2023.

The proposed changes aim to:

provide targeted support to those households on the lowest incomes
make the scheme easier for residents to understand and access
provide greater stability to those who are in receipt of support
make the scheme work better with the Universal Credit award system
build in capacity to better manage increase in demand; and
reduce administration costs which will ultimately prevent any additional costs being added to the council tax.

The full proposed council tax reduction scheme has the following three options based on % of increase to council tax from 1 April 2023.

email it to benefits@slough.gov.uk or
download, print and post it to: Council tax reduction scheme consultation, Slough Borough Council, Observatory House, 25 Windsor Road, SL1 2EL.

If you have any issues adding your answers it may have opened as a read only file. Make sure to enable editing or save as an editable file.

All responses will be used to provide an updated report to cabinet, before a final decision on the changes is made by full council.