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Council Tax/Pensions

Asked for a view on the issues concerning the case of a pensioner who had refused to pay her council tax, the PMOS said as he understood it, those living on the basic state pension alone should be entitled to pensioner credit and people in those circumstances should also be entitled to some rebate on their Council Tax. The Government was aware that there were over a million pensioners entitled to some relief on their Council Tax who were not claiming it, which was why there would be a campaign next month to encourage people to apply for it. Asked about the particular case, the PMOS said it was up to the individual concerned to find out what her entitlements were, in conjunction with the authorities in the area.

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It would be nice if politicians began to think a bit more systematically about money as the tool that runs the world and themselves.

Austin Mitchell MP has tabled Early Day Motion 323 http://edm.ais.co.uk/weblink/html/motion.html/ref=323 which goes to the crux of
— the State being less and less able to influence its own finances and the money of the Nation
— the Nation’s money being controlled by ‘bank money’ rather than ‘State money’
— voters and taxpayers being fooled by economists whose non-science is statistical nonsense rather than financial reality.
Please do consider getting your MP to sign EDM 323 as a tiny step towards waking up to financial realities.
Pensioners’, students’ and house buyers’ realities are a consequence of compounding interest over time.
Comment by Sabine McNeill — 27 Feb 2004 on 7:05 am | Link

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