{"id":65412,"date":"2024-09-13T15:59:11","date_gmt":"2024-09-13T15:59:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=65412"},"modified":"2024-09-13T15:59:11","modified_gmt":"2024-09-13T15:59:11","slug":"starmer-refuses-to-rule-out-axing-single-person-council-tax-discount","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2024\/09\/13\/starmer-refuses-to-rule-out-axing-single-person-council-tax-discount\/","title":{"rendered":"Starmer refuses to rule out axing single-person council tax discount"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-65413\" src=\"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Council-Tax-discount-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Council-Tax-discount-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Council-Tax-discount-360x240.jpg 360w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Council-Tax-discount.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"dropcap-element-slot\">S<\/span>ir Keir Starmer has refused to rule out scrapping the 25% single-person council tax discount, saying decisions on the public finances had to be looked at \u201cin the round\u201d.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/news\/uknews\/starmer-refuses-to-rule-out-axing-single-person-council-tax-discount\/ar-AA1qvV2D?ocid=msedgntp&amp;pc=HCTS&amp;cvid=5323befb74154e84912db0c5bf9d2b97&amp;ei=253\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>Sir Keir Starmer has refused to rule out scrapping the 25% single-person council tax discount, saying decisions on the public finances had&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":65413,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[200],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-65412","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cost-of-living-crisis"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Council-Tax-discount.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65412","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65412"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65412\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65414,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65412\/revisions\/65414"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65413"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}