Covid could leave town with rampant poverty
Jan 27, 2021 Job losses created by Covid could see poverty in Dudley become "rampant" as the number of benefit claimants increase over the coming months, it has been claimed. Subscribe to our daily newsletter! Sign Up Council officers predict new claims for council tax reductions from those on low wages or unemployed could reach 17,500 at the end of July before falling off later this year. In a discussion on Dudley’s proposed budget council tax increase of 4.99 per cent, Councillor Bryan Cotterill told a meeting of the corporate scrutiny committee that poverty could become "unimaginable". H...
Source: expressandstar.com