{"id":1586,"date":"2023-10-12T11:27:42","date_gmt":"2023-10-12T10:27:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chewmagna.org.uk\/?p=1586"},"modified":"2023-10-12T11:27:44","modified_gmt":"2023-10-12T10:27:44","slug":"local-council-tax-support-scheme-lcts-consultation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chewmagna.org.uk\/index.php\/2023\/10\/12\/local-council-tax-support-scheme-lcts-consultation\/","title":{"rendered":"Local Council Tax Support Scheme (LCTS) Consultation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table><tbody><tr><td><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/ci6.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/kg3eQwzND0zzywxcnulLj4btf6HeqJ4AyDGssSz8PC72qLSlSYYrTCdJQfCx3R2FKHEj4Z-TCH_sx2sZRrtLAib9h3GJTffxGKCR7Y8lmiwRhf5KFes8Dpzk7lMw46o7E3WGhddLpPqed_dHWT-k5IdG0zIR9w=s0-d-e1-ft#https:\/\/mcusercontent.com\/aaac7864bba59ea322ceb662d\/images\/6c017398-2e38-d6c4-74fd-045213aaba55.png\" width=\"296\"><\/td><\/tr><tr><td><strong>Local Council Tax Support Scheme (LCTS)<br><br>Consultation now open &#8211; Have your say<\/strong><br><br>The&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/bathnes.us6.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=aaac7864bba59ea322ceb662d&amp;id=1e74c2c9fb&amp;e=2e3b71c20e\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Local Council Tax Support (LCTS) scheme<\/a>&nbsp;exists to help households on a lower income with the cost of their Council Tax. Depending on the amount of money they have coming in, Council Tax Support could reduce bills by up to 90%.The Council is proposing to make changes to the LCTS scheme for claimants who receive Universal Credit and if agreed ,&nbsp;they will take effect from April 2024. The changes will only affect households who receive Universal Credit.<br><br>The current rules will apply for all other households who are receiving Council Tax Support.&nbsp;<br><br>To find out more about the proposals and have your say, visit the Council&#8217;s website&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/bathnes.us6.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=aaac7864bba59ea322ceb662d&amp;id=53345c43e1&amp;e=2e3b71c20e\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Local Council Tax Support Scheme (LCTS) Consultation now open &#8211; Have your say The&nbsp;Local Council Tax Support (LCTS) scheme&nbsp;exists to help households on a lower income with the cost of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-feature-news","category-news","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chewmagna.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1586","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chewmagna.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chewmagna.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chewmagna.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chewmagna.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1586"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chewmagna.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1586\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chewmagna.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chewmagna.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chewmagna.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}