The Council Tax Reduction Schemes (Default Scheme) (England) Regulations 2012

PART 1 Personal allowances

1.  The amounts specified in column (2) below in respect of each person or couple specified in column (1) are the amounts specified for the purposes of paragraphs 26(1)(a) and 27(1)(a) and (b)—

Column (1) Person or couple	Column (2) Amount
(1) A single applicant who—	(1)
(a) is entitled to main phase employment and support allowance;	(a) £71.00;
(b) is aged not less than 25;	(b) £71.00;
(c) is aged not less than 18 but less than 25.	(c) £56.25.
(2) Lone parent.	(2) £71.00.
(3) Couple.	(3) £111.45.

2.  For the purposes of paragraph 1 an applicant is entitled to main phase employment and support allowance if—

(a) paragraph 18 is satisfied in relation to the applicant; or

(b) the applicant is entitled to a converted employment and support allowance.

3.—(1) The amounts specified in column (2) below in respect of each person specified in column (1) are, for the relevant period specified in column (1), the amounts specified for the purposes of paragraphs 26(1)(b) and 27(1)(c)—

Column (1) Child or Young person	Column (2) Amount
Person in respect of the period—
(a) beginning on that person’s date of birth and ending on the day preceding the first Monday in September following that person’s sixteenth birthday;	£64.99
(b) beginning on the first Monday in September following that person’s sixteenth birthday and ending on the day preceding that person’s twentieth birthday.	£64.99

(2) In column (1) of the table in sub-paragraph (1), “the first Monday in September” means the Monday which first occurs in the month of September in any year.