An elderly resident in Bury has blasted her local council for ‘negligence’ after she received a court summons for not paying her council tax despite sending in two cheques.
The Prestwich resident, who has asked not to be named, said she sent a £120.04 cheque off to Bury Council to cover her council tax in April, but a month later received a letter from the local authority informing her that she had not yet paid her monthly tax.
The 88-year-old said she then wrote back to the council with a further cheque for the full year’s amount as she didn’t ‘want any more aggravation’ and hoped it would resolve the issue.
