Rose Mullarkey (Letters, 26 April) is right, but not only has the Coalition axed money contributed by taxpayers for the Independent Living Fund, Community Care Grants and Crisis Loans earmarked for the relief of poverty, it has also piled costs on to and reduced the value of the lowest incomes to make those funds all the more necessary. In Haringey I met a single adult who has paid his taxes all his working life and become unemployed at 55. He is a council tenant in a house with two bedrooms. His Jobseeker’s Allowance is now £72.40 a week and since April 2013 it is required to pay £24 bedroom tax and £5 council tax. There are millions like him in the UK who are at risk of a summons for late or non-­payment of council tax. When the council is granted a liability