Con-Dem attack on Council Tax Benefits
This vicious government is determined to make ordinary
people pay for the crisis whilst their banker friends get bailed out and still
get their bonuses.
Under the misnamed ‘Welfare Reform Act, the government is proposing to abolish the national Council
Tax Benefit (CTB) scheme which is centrally funded and make all councils in
England bring in their own scheme from April 2013, with less funding. They aim
to save around £410million in England approximately 10% of current costs. In
Nottingham and Nottinghamshire the cut is around £13.29 million. For the City
Council the shortfall is closer to 15% of what the City council pays out in
Council Tax Benefit.
The government want councils to cut benefits as part of the
attack on the welfare state to make us pay for the bankers’ and the system’s crisis and
to make benefits so poor that people will work for as little as employers want
to pay. Hardly surprising, some in the government want to get rid of the
minimum wage. Currently, the government has exempted pensioners (approximately
1/3 of CTB recipients) from this latest attack – but for how long?
OPPOSE CUTS IN
COUNCIL TAX BENEFITS
OPPOSE
INCREASED CHARGES
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