Pensions eat up a quarter of council tax
Author: Daily Mail |
A quarter of all council tax is going to meet the soaring cost of the gold-plated pensions of town hall workers, it was revealed yesterday.
Taxpayer subsidies for the pensions of local authority staff topped £5billion last year, according to figures from the Department for Communities and Local Government.
Families paying an average council tax bill of £1,154 would have stumped up £285 to the pensions of local government workers – a cost that has more than trebled in the years since Labour came to power.