Carers, lone parents and disabled Londoners at risk from changes to council tax rules, warns Sadiq Khan Sir Sadiq Khan has raised concern that poorer Londoners will be hurt financially by changes to council tax benefit.
At present, the poorest pensioners and students have 100 per cent of their council tax paid by the Government while working age Londoners are dependent on schemes run by their borough.
They said that, in extreme cases, working age families living in large properties in the capital’s most expensive boroughs could face council tax demands of up to £3,000 a year despite being on benefits.
The Standard revealed last week that thousands of the capital’s poorest residents were set to have to pay council tax for the first time due to the extent of the cash crisis faced by town halls.
Now Sir Sadiq has warned that the council tax support system “has become increasingly unsustainable and inequitable within London” and called on the Government to review the rules and funding.
