MSE News: Council tax benefit axe 'to hit 2.4 million families'

AMG762

Maybe everyone should have to pay a percentage. In my area for example people who paid nothing last year will now pay 20% which works out to around £203 per year.

This is a massive increase for people on minimum state benefits. While i have nothing against pensioners is it fair that the well off ones who dont need additional help receive it.

Also it is turning into a postcode lottery. Which is completely unfair. People on minimum state benefits in some areas pay nothing where other areas now pay hundreds?

To me it looks as though if you live in area with a large population of pensioners (which need to be protected) then your in for a huge increase in council tax if claiming benefits. Completely unfair

CIS

To me it looks as though if you live in area with a large population of pensioners (which need to be protected) then your in for a huge increase in council tax if claiming benefits. Completely unfair

That pretty much sums it up.

penrhyn

When did pensioners not pay council tax?

AMG762

penrhyn wrote: »

When did pensioners not pay council tax?

They do. The problem is councils are prevented from cutting any benefits currently paid to them. Which means more severe cuts for other vulnerable groups

penrhyn

No politician, with half a brain cell would upset pensioners as they tend to vote in large numbers.
Mind you the granny tax has not gone down too well, i.e the scrapping of the age related income tax allowance.

Nada666

UsetheFORCE wrote: »

Around 2.4 million as the thread title headline suggests???

No, that is not what the headline suggests.

MEMBER02

Typical tory policies hitting the poor and disabled with benefit cuts etc and the millionaires are getting a tax cut!

penrhyn

Labour, so called friends of benefits, had lower taxes on high earners every year when they were in power. The 50% tax was a trap set by the former prime mentalist, that the Tories and yellow stains fell into.

toffeecoated

The reason pensioners are protected is because they are by far the largest group that actually vote. So you could say it is them who got us in this mess. In my lifetime we have only had Labour and Conservative governments, and as my dad always said, Labour are incompetent, Conservatives are evil.

toffeecoated

NPowerUser wrote: »

A mini poll tax via the back door.

Everyone should pay a contribution, no matter how small, if they are getting something for nothing off the state.

Someone has to pay for rubbish being collected, police, schools etc.

Under the old rates system nobody complained. It was Thatcher who brought in the hated poll tax, later renamed the council tax. The sooner that evil !!!!! dies the better.