It's the highest in the UK
The cost of living crisis has affected lives across the country, with many people in the UK finding it more and more difficult to pay their bills.
Since April 2021, at least three million liability orders have been granted by these courts, which give councils the power to send in bailiffs, deduct money from wages or benefits, force the sale of a home or even have the debtor sent to prison. In response to this, a spokesperson from the Government said councils need to be “sympathetic to those in genuine hardship and always be proportionate in how they collect outstanding council tax.
Following in second is Middlesbrough and in third is Salford, which is another town in the North West. For the Greater Manchester town, 50,552 people in a population of 269,900 have been granted liability orders, equating to 18.7%. “For instance if you don’t top up your gas and electricity meter you’re getting cut off, or if you don’t buy food you’re going to starve. If there’s not enough money left for council tax, that will be the thing that gets left, there aren’t immediate consequences.
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