Magistrates courts have been granting debt orders to councils at a rate of more than 4,500 a day since April 2021 as the cost-of-living crisis spiralled 🔴 Exclusive from SteveRobson04
More than 3 million people have been taken to court for council tax debt in some of the poorest parts of the country in the last two years,Since Covid, magistrates courts across England have handed out the equivalent of more than 4,500 debt orders a day in what campaigners say is the latest illustration of the scale of the cost-of-living crisis.
For much of 2020, courts stopped issuing liability orders due to pandemic rules but in the past two years action has ramped up as families struggle to make ends meet. In Middlesbrough, the figures suggest at least 20 per cent of the population has been taken to court over council tax debt. London councils also have some of the highest figures for the number of cases resulting in bailiffs being instructed, including Hillingdon , Barnet , Barking and Dagenham and Brent .‘s figures come as “no surprise at all”.
“We’re seeing many more cases of people coming in with council tax debt, along with rent and energy arrears.” “People on low incomes should be able to rely on the system designed to support them with council tax, but a postcode lottery and reduced funding means that many aren’t getting enough or any help at all.”
If these efforts are unsuccessful and the council still believes you have the ability to pay and are refusing, they can ask for a further court hearing to have you sent to prison.Between 2010 and 2017, nearly 700 people were sent to prison for failing to pay council tax. Ms Taylor says in her experience the clients visited by bailiffs rarely have any money or possessions that can be recovered and the move merely adds more debt.
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