Money Saving Analyst Martin Lewis has provided latest news for state pensioners on speculation regarding the potential removal of 25 percent single person council tax discount.
Chancellor Rachel Reeves will unveil the Labour Party Autumn Budget for next financial year on Wednesday October 30.
This will be happy updates as scrapping the discount could have view pensioners living in average council tax Band D view their tax bills rise by 543 euro per year.
What is Council Tax Support?
Council Tax Support famous as Council Tax Reduction is benefit to assist people who are on less income or claiming benefits to pay their Council Tax bill.
Those who get the Guarantee Credit part of Pension Credit might be able to get council tax paid in full.
800,000 pensioners could be eligible for Pension Credit but are not claiming backbone for person aged 66 and over or their loved one to check eligibility.
There is no special amount of council tax support may be entitled to the rate depends on person situation and where they live.
Discount range between 25 percent and 100 percent.
Each local council run its own Council Tax Support schemes how a person makes a claim differ depending on where they live.
The first thing a person should do when making a claim is to contact their local council.
What is Council Tax?
Council Tax is form of local taxation based on value of someone property that assist pay for services in the ared like road maintenance, elderly care, polica and scrab collection.
It can add amount to household monthly outgoing some groups can have bills discounted by claiming Council Tax Support.
The Treasury will not finish the single person council tax discount, Downing Street has showed.
There had been suggestion that government was considering scrapping the measure in a bid to fill the 22bn euro financial black hole it claims it has inherited from Conservative government.
Over the past weeks ministers have refused to rule out ditching the measure that entitles those who live alone to a 25% discount of council tax bill.
Ms Reeves who has faced critics over her decision to scrap the winter fuel allowance for multiple pensioners faced heckling in hall from protester who appeared to call for a halt to arm sales to Israel and for action on environment.
Ms Reeves continued her speech and replied by saying that Labour had become a part that represent working people not a party of protest.
The government will look to expand the scheme to provide breakfast to all state schools pupils aged four to 11 in England one of Labour manifesto urges.
The chancellor further said that 7m euro of funding would be put towards a pilot scheme to introduce breakfast clubs to 750 primary schools across England this summer term.
She said “So it will be a budget with real ambition a budget to fix the foundations a budget to deliver the change that we promised a budget to rebuild Britain”