City Council

OAPs ‘facing council tax poverty’

By The Basa ⋅ March 22, 2005 ⋅  Email this post ⋅  Print this post ⋅ Post a comment

Again, what we all expected but now have the figures to prove it:

“Hundreds of thousands of Scottish pensioners could be living in council tax poverty, campaigners have claimed. Help the Aged said 70% of those who took part in a survey fell into that category.”

More info here at the BBC: OAPs ‘facing council tax poverty’
and Help the Aged’s Crushed by Council Tax

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