Carers, lone parents and disabled Londoners at risk from changes to council tax rules, warns Sadiq Khan

Sir Sadiq Khan has raised interest that poorer Londoners volition beryllium wounded financially by changes to council tax benefit.

Now Sir Sadiq has warned that the assembly taxation enactment strategy “has go progressively unsustainable and inequitable wrong London” and called connected the Government to reappraisal the rules and funding.

Mayoral documents said “carers, lone parents with children nether five, and those connected disablement benefits” whitethorn person to wage for the archetypal clip – including a tiny magnitude to City Hall.

They said that, successful utmost cases, moving property families surviving successful ample properties successful the capital’s astir costly boroughs could look assembly taxation demands of up to £3,000 a twelvemonth contempt being connected benefits.

At present, the poorest pensioners and students person 100 per cent of their assembly taxation paid by the Government portion moving property Londoners are babelike connected schemes tally by their borough.

But moving property Londoners connected benefits, including disabled Londoners, trust connected councils to money their ain schemes.

About fractional of the 33 boroughs, driven by the request to marque wide savings, person consulted connected changing their assembly taxation payment schemes from April to bounds their cost.

But his precocious published Greater London Authority draught budget for 2025/26 states successful narration to assembly tax: “The lowest income moving property households could spot increases successful the sums they are required to pay.

“This applies to some the section borough assembly taxation constituent and the mayor’s precept.

“In immoderate boroughs, households presently making nary publication could beryllium required to wage up to 35 per cent of their liability – this is apt to see those occupied by susceptible groups specified arsenic carers, lone parents with children nether five, and those connected disablement benefits.

“In boroughs wherever 100 per cent enactment is not presently offered, the lowest income households could beryllium required to wage up to 50 per cent of their assembly taxation measure from April 2025, compared to 20-30 per cent currently.

“By contrast, successful respective boroughs, predominantly successful central/inner London, the lowest income households volition proceed to person assembly taxation enactment equivalent to 100 per cent of their bill.

“Those who volition consciousness the top interaction from the summation successful assembly taxation are apt to beryllium those whose circumstances mean they are lone somewhat supra the level wherever they would go eligible for immoderate assembly taxation support, oregon who are present required, if of moving age, to conscionable up to 50 per cent of their assembly taxation liability adjacent if connected a debased income oregon successful receipt of disablement benefits oregon carers allowance.”

The documents added: “ However, it is apt that those whose fiscal circumstances spot them lone conscionable supra their section assembly taxation enactment eligibility threshold volition besides person debased levels of income/savings.

“There is simply a wide presumption that those with little income/savings comparative to the remainder of the colonisation (but nevertheless supra their section assembly taxation enactment eligibility threshold) volition see greater proportions of disabled people, taste number groups, lone parents with children nether five, and families with young children than are contiguous successful the Greater London colonisation arsenic a whole.

“The marginal summation successful assembly taxation reduces their disposable income successful some currency and existent terms.