We should stop making terminally ill people pay council tax, say councillors

People who have been given a terminal illness diagnosis should not have to pay council tax at all - that’s the view of opposition Labour councillors at City Hall in Bristol. The group is proposing an amendment to a plan to update the council tax exemption scheme, which will mean anyone with a terminal diagnosis will never have to pay council tax again.

The move is Bristol’s response to a campaign from cancer charity Marie Curie to better support people with terminal illness to ease the financial worries in their final weeks and months. Research from the charity reveals that 30 per cent of working-age people are dying in poverty, while 17 per cent of pensioners are.

Labour have called on the other political

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