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Four million pensioners at risk of council tax raid

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Retirees make up half of the 8.4 m people who will be affected if the Housing Secretary abolishes a council tax break for one -person households.

Angela Rayner refused to rule out scrapping the 25pc sole occupier discount, which cuts 543 per year from the average Band D council tax bill in 2024-25 .

Scrapping the single-person council tax discount would save the public purse around 3bn a year, according to the Institute for Fiscal Studies .

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