Council rates ‘may rise by £261’
COUNCIL tax could rise by more than £250 for an average property over the next three years to fund a black hole in social care funding, Labour has warned.
Town halls have been putting up bills above the rate of inflation for a number of years to pay for care. The party claims this will have to continue despite the national insurance hike announced last week.
In the first three years of the 1.25 percentage point rise in the tax, only £5.4billion of the £36billion raised will go into the care sector. The average Band D home faces a council tax addition of £261 over the next three years, taking the annual bill to £2,159 by 2024/5, according to Labour.
Sir Keir Starmer said: ‘Working people and families face a tax hike because of the Conservatives’ failures on social care. Now they face an extra clobbering through council tax.’
A government spokesman said ‘decisive and historic action’ has been taken to ‘fix this crisis’.