The Council Tax Reduction Schemes and Prescribed Requirements (Wales) Regulations 2013

PART 1 Applicable amounts for the purposes of calculating eligibility for a reduction under an authority’s scheme and amount of reduction: pensioners

Applicable amounts: pensioners (including pensioners in polygamous marriages)

1.—(1) The applicable amount for a pensioner for a week is the aggregate of such of the following amounts as apply in that person’s case—

(a) an amount in respect of the person’s personal allowance or if that person is a member of a couple, an amount in respect of both of them, determined in accordance with paragraph 1 of Schedule 2 (personal allowance);

(b) an amount in respect of any child or young person who is a member of the person’s family, determined in accordance with paragraph 2 of that Schedule (child or young person amounts);

(c) if the person is a member of a family of which at least one member is a child or young person, an amount determined in accordance with paragraph 3 of that Schedule (family premium);

(d) the amount of any premiums which may be applicable to the person, determined in accordance with Parts 3 and 4 of that Schedule (premiums).

(2) In Schedule 2—

“additional spouse” (“priod ychwanegol”) means a spouse of either party to the marriage who is additional to the other party to the marriage;

“patient” (“claf”) means a person (other than a person who is serving a sentence of imprisonment or detention in a youth custody institution) who is regarded as receiving free in-patient treatment within the meaning of regulation 2(4) and (5) of the Social Security (Hospital In-Patients) Regulations 2005(1).

(1)

S.I. 2005/3360.