The bedroom tax is a cut to housing benefit for 660,000 families in the UK who have been classed as having a spare bedroom. Almost two-thirds of those homes include somebody with a disability. But the lack of smaller homes for people to move to means that many have no choice but to stay where they are and accept the cut in payment. Meanwhile, the MPs that support the cut claim up to £480 a week in accommodation expenses...The accommodation expenses claimed by the MPs who voted to keep the damaging tax could pay the bedroom tax for up to 230,000 of those people affected for a year. These were the same MPs jeering in parliament, laughing into the camera as victims of the bedroom tax gave their devastating testimonies of what life was like under the cuts. theguardian/society/2013/nov/19/mps-bedroom-tax-hypocrisy-block-of-flats
Posted on: Tue, 19 Nov 2013 18:14:17 +0000
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