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[ploddertom]

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http://www.journallive.co.uk/north-east-news/todays-news//tm_headline=council-tax-benefit-cuts-could-put-north-east-families-in-jail%26method=full%26objectid=30256775%26siteid=61634-name_page.html

[outlawla]

There's more!

 

Labour run council's are after abolishing the 25% single person's Council Tax discount.

 

They're after Picking Widow's Pockets, also in the Telegraph's Widow Tax

Edited February 3, 2012 by outlawla

[brassnecked]

Ouch, the porcine Mr Pickles should have to manage on benefits say for 12 months to feel the pain. The problem is that many council and social housing, is also in band C or higher for council tax, making it unaffordable to low income families also.

 

Not very nice news at all PT In Wales where they have already been revalued this one will be a nightmare. Where I live the houses were rebanded from an A to a Band C

 

@ outlawla, it just proves that none of the politicians whatever party, give a damn about anyone who is poor or on low incomes.

[nohope]

“These changes could lead to more council tax payers being taken to court and increased use of bailiffs.

So they want to cut down the help people get to pay something that they cant afford in the first place then send bailiffs out to charge them even more that they cant afford. They already do this and it dont work so what do they think is going to happen if they make more cuts to the help people need.

 

“This in turn would create additional costs in the short term relating to prison sentences, and in the long term with regard to the social costs of rehabilitating people back into mainstream society.”

So send them to prison which in turn will create more people that are going to struggle to get work because of a criminal record and also overfill the prisons that are already full which will cost more money that they will no doubt find by putting council tax up.

 

All i can say is

 

GOD HELP US ALL,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,

[BRIGADIER2JCS]

I will only make this comment.

''It is time that non payment of Council tax was decriminalised,

it is a social tax on all set at times at totally unfair and unreasonable

levels based on purely subjective rules and protocols.

It would be fairer to do away with the benefits system and have a local

income tax system which would not only be simpler but cosiderably

cheaper to adminster, and those who can pay more will do so those

on low incomes, benefits would not then be faced with a liability

order and costs.

[outlawla]

For anyone interested in the Commons debate on the Clause 8 — Council tax reduction schemes, Labour MP for Alyn and Deeside, Mark Tami kicks off the discussion and questions how increased bailiff involvement can possibly help.

 

It is the people my hon. Friend has mentioned—those who are on the poverty line and do not have any spare cash—who will be in arrears with their council tax. Every day in our surgeries we see people who tell us that the bailiffs are about to arrive. How can the Government’s proposals possibly help?

[brassnecked]

For anyone interested in the Commons debate on the Clause 8 — Council tax reduction schemes, Labour MP for Alyn and Deeside, Mark Tami kicks off the discussion and questions how increased bailiff involvement can possibly help.

 

Absolutely, how can they help, by sending bailiffs to a can't pay to empty the house, for arrears and bailiffs fees, then as they are on benefits load them up with Budgetting loan debt to refurnish? Community Care Grant ?, are not goods provided via a CCG not exempt from seizure as they will be essentials, ?

[tomtubby]

As I have said on here many times before.....we are facing the worst recession in living memory and local authorities are treating the public as CASH COWS.......

[brassnecked]

As I have said on here many times before.....we are facing the worst recession in living memory and local authorities are treating the public as CASH COWS.......

Sad and ohh so true TT, and it will not improve any time soon

[tomtubby]

I have no doubt at all that things will become MUCH WORSE...

[brassnecked]

I have no doubt at all that things will become MUCH WORSE...

 

It will become so bad that items seized by bailiffs will be lucky to make 2 - 5% of value at auction imho

[ploddertom]

As Wolfie used to say "come the revolution", I can forsee more anarchy and public unrest as neither the Goverment or local politicians have a clue about the real world.

[brassnecked]

As Wolfie used to say "come the revolution", I can forsee more anarchy and public unrest as neither the Goverment or local politicians have a clue about the real world.

 

They live on another planet where everyone has a bottomless pocket to pay their extortionate taxes