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Wednesday, February 04, 2009

Town Hall Pensions Eat Up a Quarter of YOUR Council Tax Payments

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.

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So only pay them 3/4's of your council tax, if you pay then anything!

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