Look after the pennies ...

It's probably not a bad idea to avoid giving money away before you start looking here, there and everywhere for cuts in the budget.
It seems that whilst Boston Borough Council is grubbing around shaving a few thousand from one place or another that it overpaid benefits to the tune of £21,700 in the last financial year.
Admittedly the sum is a drop in the ocean compared with the likes of neighbouring East Lindsey, which overpaid by £80,000 - but if it matters, it matters.
In most cases the overpayments were discovered after residents revealed changes in their circumstances, and across the county they totalled £2.9m.
Matthew Sinclair, of the Taxpayers' Alliance, said the loss of the money was "of a significant scale" but added it was expensive to pay the costs of "clawing back" the funds.
He called the process of recovering the money "an unpleasant task for everyone concerned".
So is paying unnecessary council tax.

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