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The CAB, Shelter and a large local authority landlord, give their views on implementation of changes to housing benefit and council tax benefit by local authorities.
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In future, councils may have to work within a fixed budget, set by the Department for Communities and Local Government, for council tax benefit.
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It also allows them to replace council tax benefit with their own local schemes.
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The bill gives local authorities the power to keep some of the money they raise from business rates in their area, and allows them to replace council tax benefit with their own local schemes.
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The Department for Communities and Local Government says more people currently receive Council Tax Benefit in England than any other means-tested benefit or tax credit.
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As MPs debated the Local Government Finance Bill at report stage on 21 May 2012, Mr Stunell also explained that local authorities will be allowed to replace council tax benefit with their own schemes.
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The party said it would replace the council tax with a local service charge, again designed to benefit the poor and target the well-off.
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Communities and Local Government Secretary Eric Pickles and his team also took questions on the effects of council tax benefit localisation on low-income families, simplifying the regulation of private landlords, and promoting the take-up of the right to buy.
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Such an increase in the tax base would have the added benefit of reducing the fiscal stress of state and local governments caused by four years of high unemployment and abysmal economic growth.
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He is Plaid's spokesman on local government, housing and transport, and last year was heavily critical of Labour's handling of council tax benefit.
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