Dan Peters 05 February 2025

National Insurance compensation allocations 'sensible'

The Government's approach to distributing compensation to councils for higher National Insurance Contribution bills has been described as ‘sensible' by a think-tank.

Senior research economist at the Institute for Fiscal Studies, Kate Ogden, praised Labour's decision to make allocations on the basis of councils' net spending on services as of 2023-24.

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