We base our income banded scheme values on your net income as shown in the table below. Each year we increase the values by September Retail Price Index % (RPI%), rounded to the nearest £5.
The income bands for our 2023/24 CTS scheme are:
Discount
|
Passported
|
Single
Income Band £
|
Couples
Income Band £
|
Family with 1
child £
|
Family with 2+
Children
|
Band 1 100%
|
Relevant benefit
|
0.00 to 90.00
|
0.00 to 140.00
|
0.00 to 220.00
|
0.00 to 300.00
|
Band 2 90%
|
N/A
|
90.01 to 140.00
|
140.01 to 190.00
|
220.01 to 255.00
|
300.01 to 315.00
|
Band 3 85%
|
N/A
|
140.01 to 185.00
|
190.01 to 240.00
|
255.01 to 325.00
|
315.01 to 365.00
|
Band 4 50%
|
N/A
|
185.01 to 280.00
|
240.01 to 325.00
|
325.01 to 400.00
|
365.01 to 440.00
|
Band 5 25%
|
N/A
|
280.01 to 365.00
|
325.01 to 420.00
|
400.01 to 485.00
|
440.01 to 540.00
|
Information on our 2022 to 2023 CTS scheme and how these changes may affect you, click below:
Disregarded income
When we work out entitlement to Council Tax Support, we do not take the following income into account:
- Disability Living Allowance
- Personal Independence Payment
- Armed Forces Independence Payment
- Child Benefit
- Child Maintenance
- War Disablement Benefits
- We also apply an earnings disregard of £7.50 for single people, £12.50 for couples and £17.50 for lone parents
Summary of our scheme
We award CTS as a discount, based on household income and circumstances as follows:
- Earnings disregard of £7.50 for single people, £12.50 for couples and £17.50 for lone parents
- Income from Disability Living Allowance, Personal Independence Payments, Armed Forces Independence Payments, Child Benefit, Child Maintenance and War Disablement Benefits are ignored
- Universal Credit is treated as earned income when there is an element of wages, housing costs are ignored and deductions from Universal Credit to repay debts will not be removed
- Anyone with savings of £6,000 or more will not qualify
- Self-employed income is assessed by applying a minimum income floor
- Applications from joint tenants are assessed on their proportion of the household
- Income bands increase each year by September Retail Price Index
You can see full details of the scheme at Council Tax Support banded scheme 2023/24 – (pdf, 2mb)