In this month’s podcast on Debt Talk, Ripon Ray explored the current landscape for councils to recover council tax. Since the introduction of welfare reform over ten years ago, nearly every council in the UK expects some form of contribution from households regardless of whether many families were deemed too poor to pay prior to the introduction of the reform. At the same time, Britain has seen an increase in the recovery of council tax through the Magistrate's Courts.

While the number of households in arrears has increased throughout the country, there has been a surge in the use of civil enforcement agents to recover the council tax debt. Ripon Ray spoke with panelists from the debt enforcement and debt advice sector to explore the current framework in which councils work and ways council tax has been recovering the debt.

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