pamela wrote:

On 16:40 9 Feb 2018, ss wrote:

On 09/02/2018 12:17, Dave Plowman (News) wrote:
In article ,
The Natural Philosopher wrote:
Looking at my council tax bill, the foollowing apply

Non adult social care £1376.87
Adult social care precept £69.63
Police & crime commissioner £216.00
District council £174.02
Pa3ish Council £56.65

TOTAL £1893.32

Almost 2 grand council tax? No wonder you voted Brexit. Must be a
lot of pikeys living there claiming housing benefit.

Scotland, I am on £1435 per year and 33% goes to pay their
pensions! Not disclosed in their reports but info from freedom of
information.

That's outrageous but may not be uncommon.

http://www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/n...Third-council-
tax-spent-staff-pensions-warns-leading-council-finance-chief.html

Former idlers are being kept comfortable by good money taken from
their own communities. For shame.

Why is it a "shame" that people are paid a pension they worked for and
contriibuted to, maybe for most of a lifetime? It would be much more
of a "shame" if the contract were broken. If the funding is difficult
now, all it suggests is the the council were negligent in maintaining
the fund in past years.


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Roger Hayter