The "vast majority of councils" are not making a surplus on any of their charges, said the chair of the Local Government Association.
Why is the chancellor making a surplus out of people's misery?
Last year, this charitable enterprise made a surplus of £25m.
Affinity Sutton now manages nearly 60,000 homes across the country and made a surplus of £145m last year.
Yet Cruz, described by Senate colleague John McCain as a "wackobird", has made a surplus of enemies in Washington.
It made a surplus of £98.8m in 2012-13, up from £86.1m the previous year, while revenue slipped by 3% to £347m.
But the vital statistic is that, thanks to their appealing schedules, they made a surplus of £16m during 2007, a profit for the first time, compared with a loss of £17.6m last year.
The data has emerged the day after Paul Pugh, the head of the Passport Office, told parliament that the agency is due to make a surplus of £50m even though the backlog of applications has exceeded 500,000.
Explaining the decision to summon Pugh, Keith Vaz, chairman of the home affairs select committee, said: "We are very concerned about what appears to be this huge backlog, given that the Passport Office made a surplus of £73m last year".
But nine years later, he invoiced for £1.3m having claimed that Blatter told him at the time that Fifa did not have the money to pay him, despite Fifa's accounts for the period showing it made a surplus of £75m, feeding an ever growing cash pile that now stands at £849m.
