{"id":72917,"date":"2025-03-04T10:48:06","date_gmt":"2025-03-04T10:48:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=72917"},"modified":"2025-03-04T10:48:06","modified_gmt":"2025-03-04T10:48:06","slug":"five-million-brits-have-been-in-council-tax-arrears-in-last-five-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2025\/03\/04\/five-million-brits-have-been-in-council-tax-arrears-in-last-five-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Five million Brits have been in council tax arrears in last five years"},"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 decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net\/tenant\/amp\/entityid\/AA1AbfHX.img?w=534&amp;h=356&amp;m=6\" alt=\"Research for the Mail has found that one in 10 adults have been indebted to their local authority at some point (file photo)\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Five million Britons have been in council tax arrears at some point, the Mail can reveal it emerged that almost half of councils increased their financial reserves last year.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/money\/other\/five-million-brits-have-been-in-council-tax-arrears-in-last-five-years\/ar-AA1Abket?ocid=msedgntp&amp;pc=HCTS&amp;cvid=1b92a5f298974b54afb8c6f198742be2&amp;ei=37\"> 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>Five million Britons have been in council tax arrears at some point, the Mail can reveal it emerged that almost half of&#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-72917","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\/72917","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=72917"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72917\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72918,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72917\/revisions\/72918"}],"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=72917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}