The Bedroom Tax is now costing victims £66 more than the DWP first predicted
Happy days for an evil creature: The average cost of the Bedroom Tax has now hit £794 a year [Image: Reuters].
Where are these premises?
They don’t exist, of course.
Most council housing has been sold off and is now in the hands of private landlords, their original buyers having sold them on.
Other social providers have been building properties that are now the wrong size and have no funds to make changes.
And the Conservative Government has done nothing to improve the situation, despite claiming the opposite. Tories want high-priced housing.
It means you struggle to keep a roof over your head and are more … persuadable when they want to exploit you.
Note that the DWP has done nothing apart from make an excuse.
Where’s the promise to solve the problem? It isn’t forthcoming. And so This Writer’s claim is proved correct.
The Bedroom Tax is now costing each victim £66 a year more than Iain Duncan Smith’s department first predicted.
New figures reveal the hated levy costs 442,000 homes £15.27 a week each, up 9% from the original estimate of £14.
That works out at £794 a year, compared to £728 in the official impact assessment dated 2013/14.
The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) blamed the difference on rent rises over the past two years – but Labour said it proved once again why the tax should be scrapped.
Source: The Bedroom Tax is now costing victims £66 more than the DWP first predicted – Mirror Online
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The only thing that needs to be scrapped is IDS and his ilk
One Housing association has been sending in builders to knock down walls where possible to make their property fit the requirement for fewer bedrooms. It just takes strength of mind and purpose, to.put the tenants well being first to be able to make a difference. Also it’s a lovely way to stick two fingers up at the govt.
How much happier can he get?