A decision has been taken that will ensure that approximately 300,000 households in Wales will continue to be protected from any increase in their council tax liability.
220,000 people will continue to pay no council tax at all.
When the UK Government abolished Council Tax Benefit and handed responsibility to Welsh Government for developing a replacement scheme they also passed on a funding cut of 10%.
The Welsh Government and local government have worked together to secure reductions for vulnerable and low income households. This has been supported by the £244m provided through local government settlement.
Local authorities have been left to design their own schemes and manage the associated funding shortfall. This has resulted in over two million low-income households having to pay more of their council tax bill.
In England low-income families in England are now paying on average £169 a year more in council tax than they would have if Council Tax Benefit were still in place.
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