Council Tax Arrears Now Biggest Debt Problem

One in five people reporting debt problems to Citizens Advice has a council tax arrears issue. New figures show that between January and March 2014 council tax debt was the number one debt problem the charity helped with. Up until this year credit card and unsecured personal loans were the most common types of debt people approached Citizens Advice about. The number of people struggling with council tax payments has rocketed since Council Tax Benefit was replaced by localised Council Tax Support schemes in April 2013. In the first three months of this year 27,000 people with a council tax arrears problem got help from Citizens Advice - a 17 per cent increase on the same period last year. Read more on the Citizens Advice website.