Low income households could be in line for more council tax support next year.
Kirklees Council's Cabinet voted in favour of altering its council tax reduction scheme, which is a means-tested scheme to help households on low incomes pay their council tax.
Council tax benefit was replaced this year with a local council tax support scheme.
Due to Government funding cuts, households in receipt of council tax support saw a 29% reduction in the support they received, meaning they had to pay more towards their council tax bill.
From April next year, the reduction in support will be only 20%, meaning they will still have to make a contribution, but it will ease some of the financial burden on working-age households.
Kirklees says the changes have been made because they’ve fewer people receiving council tax support - down by 1,069 to 41,523 households.
Pensioners, lone parents with children aged under five, households qualifying for a disability premium and those in receipt of a war or war widows pension are unaffected by the changes.
The Cabinet decision was taken with an assumption of a 2% council tax increase next year, which the budgets put forward for consultation have also assumed.
However, any council tax increase, or freeze, will have to be debated and approved by Full Council.
