An announced increase in council funding is reliant on rising Council Tax, and still amounts to a real-terms cut when population growth is taken into account, says the Institute for Fiscal Studies.
The UK’s three largest debt charities are urging the government to implement simple measures that could protect millions of people from the prospect of spiralling council tax debt.
New report says a personal debt tsunami of £6 billion directly attributable to the pandemic is already being stored up among some 4.6 million households and, if left unchecked, is set to worsen.