Decision details

(FCS) Hardship Fund

Decision Maker: Strategic Director of Finance and Customer Services

Decision status: Recommendations Approved

Is Key decision?: No

Is subject to call in?: No

Decision:

ROTHERHAM METROPOLITAN BOROUGH COUNCIL

 

RECORD OF OFFICER EXECUTIVE DECISION

 

Date of Decision:

 

4 December 2020

Decision Maker:

(Including Job Title)

 

Judith Badger

Strategic Director of Finance and Customer Services

Specific Delegation:

(If any)

 

Non-specific

Brief Description of Decision:

 

 

That following review, the arrangements for the use of the Council’s Hardship Fund will continue for the remainder of the financial year 2020/21.

 

The Council will continue to provide £200 of support to new LCTS claimants, however, a further top up is to be provided in February 2021 to maximise the grant allocation within the current financial year.

 

Reasons for the Decision:

 

 

To providing support to economically vulnerable people and households in the borough from the allocation of the Hardship Fund from central government and maximise the benefit to those new LCTS claimants that have been most financially impacted by the pandemic.

 

Details of alternative options considered and rejected:

 

1.    Continue to provide the £200 support to new LCTS claimants, with no top up at present.

 

2.    Provide support to the Discretionary Housing Payments fund.

 

3.    Provide additional support to the work being carried out through the LA Emergency Assistance Grant. 

 

Conflicts of interest declared by any Executive Member consulted by the decision maker which relates to the decision:

 

No conflicts of interest

Dispensations Granted:

(If any)

 

None

 

Reports or parts of reports considered

 

Briefing Paper – Update and review of the application of the Council’s Hardship Fund – 4 December 2020.

 

I certify that this is a true record of the decision in relation to the arrangements for the use of the Council’s Hardship Fund for the remainder of the financial year 2020/21.

 

Signed by the Decision Maker  

 

                        

Dated           4 December 2020

 

Name:          Judith Badger                                        

Job Title:     Strategic Director Finance & Customer Services, S151 Officer

 

 

Publication date: 13/04/2021

Date of decision: 04/12/2020

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