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Privacy Notice - Revenues and Benefits

Stockton-on-Tees Borough Council is a registered data controller and we collect and use information personal to you in accordance with Data Protection legislation.

This outlines what you can expect from us when you provide us with your personal information.

Stockton-on-Tees Borough Council Revenues and Benefits Service have a statutory responsibility for administering council tax, business rates, and claims for housing benefit as well as processing applications for financial support to businesses who are eligible for help from various local and national schemes.

Functions include but not limited to:

  • Council Tax
  • business rates
  • Business Improvement District (BID)
  • housing benefit
  • welfare rights
  • discretionary rate relief
  • COVID-related grant schemes

We will only collect and use personal information to enable us to identify you and locate your personal data on our systems, ensuring that any discounts, exemptions, reductions or relief s are awarded, and the amount due for Council Tax and business rates is charged correctly each year; that any entitlement to housing benefit is correctly calculated and paid; and to enable us to effectively collect Council Tax, business rates and any overpaid housing benefit. Information may also be used for the prevention or detection of crime and fraud, or both, and to comply with our duty to protect public funds.

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