Government plans to localise the help that low-income families receive with their council tax while cutting funding for it by 10% leave local authorities with a tough challenge to design replacement schemes and threatens to undermine the new Universal Credit system, according to a new report by the Institute for Fiscal Studies.
With 5.9 million recipients, Council Tax Benefit (CTB) is more widely claimed than any other means-tested benefit or tax credit. The UK government is proposing to abolis...
