Pembrokeshire County Council is consulting on its council tax reduction scheme, which remains unchanged from the last financial year.

The Council is required to seek the public’s views as the current scheme will come to an end in March 2020.

The scheme is a national one, proposed by the Welsh Government, which has to be adopted by all local authorities in Wales.

The Welsh Government has frozen the amount of money that it will pay to local authorities to help support schemes between April 2020 and March 2021.

Those eligible for a council tax reduction will continue to receive financial assistance at a maximum level of 100 percent.

The scheme includes proposals from Pembrokeshire County Council on the backdating of benefit, extending benefit payments, the exclusion of war widow and war disablement pensions from calculations and the annual uprating of social security benefits, personal allowances, premiums and non-dependant deductions.

You can give you can give your views by completing the response form available at www.pembrokeshire.gov.uk/haveyoursay

Alternatively please telephone the Customer Contact Centre on 01437 764551 to request a hard copy to be posted to you. The closing date for responses is Friday, November 1.