By Council approve tax rise for North East Lincolnshire
This week in a budget meeting North East Lincolnshire Council approved plans for an increase on council tax and adult social care.
At the meeting the council set out their ambitions for the area in the next three to five years.
Council tax will increase by 1.98 per cent while adult social care will also increase by 1 per cent as of April this year.
The council stated increase for 2022/23 will help children’s services which were hit by a damning Ofsted report last year.
When the plans were first announed many locals were outraged as the cost of living across the nation and energy bills are also set to rise this year.
One frustrated resident wrote: “How can this be acceptable? The council proposes wasting an enormous amount of money on a car park and puts prices up again, for already strained house hold bills!
“The council should be cutting tax to help its residents not punishing them further to line their own coffers!”
Another resident shared that they were “barely scraping by as it is,” and that the proposed increase on top of the energy bill crisis would leave them “going without”.
Speaking on the now approved increase, Councillor Phillip Jackson said: “Whilst no one likes increasing taxes, especially a Conservative administration, this is below the rate of inflation, lower than last year’s increase, and a smaller increase than many upper tier councils of all political colours up and down the country.”
Labour leader Councillor Matthew Patrick opposed the plans at the council meeting, saying: “People are finding themselves in the most vulnerable position of their lives due to the cost of living crisis.
“This budget is built on excuses and failure, propped up by government money. We will be counting both the financial cost and the human cost.”
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