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Bedroom Tax – significant new developments and challenges emerge


http://speye.wordpress.com/2013/02/...-new-developments-and-challenges-emerge/

Somewhere, in some document, it will have been decided what was the optimum square footage for a bedroom per person. Saying that a cupboard is a bedroom because someone could sleep standing up in it is nuts. There will be court cases over this if they don't drop it and it will cost a lot more than they are hoping to save.

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IDS just lied his way through the Sunday politics show , he was asked if pensioners will be affected by the BT, the lying focker said NO, why would he not tell the truth and say YES, they will be if they have a working age partner

The rules are laid out in a document drawn up last year.
It was prepared by the Chartered Institute for Housing and called ‘Making It Fit’.
Under the Older Claimants section it says pensioners will be exempt.
The document confirms: “People who have already reached state pension credit age by April 2013 will not be subject to the size criteria.
“A couple are not subject to size criteria where the eldest member has attained state pension credit age, even if the younger member is still of working age.”
But it reveals things will change in October. And it says new claimants in a mixed-age household will be hit – bringing 67,000 households in range of the tax.
The document adds: “When Universal Credit is introduced in October 2013, it is likely, for new claimants, both will be treated as working age and subject to size criteria until they have both reached qualifying age for state pension.”
Research carried out by the Chartered Institute of Housing shows 67,000 mixed-age households on housing benefit in the UK
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/pensioners-will-suffer-bedroom-tax-1713692

OOP'S not sunday politics it was the andrew marr show

It is a start!!!!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-21541400

Hi Rudebox, you just beat me to it, lets hope gov has a change of heart for all affected by the BT,
ps i've got my 5ft banner ready.

http://www.insidehousing.co.uk/tena...on-pensioner-bedroom-tax/6525843.article

The DWP last week stated that mixed-age couples, where one is under and one over pension credit age, will be hit by the bedroom tax when it is rolled into the new universal credit from October if they are currently claiming benefits.

However the department this week backtracked and said it will ensure existing mixed-age claimants, of which the Chartered Institute of Housing calculates there are 67,000, are fully protected from having to pay the tax. A DWP press officer said its previous statement had been inaccurate. He put this down to ‘crossed wires’ and apologised for being misleading

Thousands of new, older claimants - pensioners who are in ‘mixed-age’ couples claiming benefits for the first time under universal credit - will, however, still be hit by the penalty. They will have to wait until both reach pension age to be exempt from the bedroom tax.

DWP rules out changes to bedroom tax
my god i wish they would make their mind up

The Department for Work and Pensions has insisted there will be no change to the bedroom tax following reports that Iain Duncan Smith has asked officials to look at how the policy will affect disabled people.


The BBC reported last night that the work and pensions secretary has asked officials to look again at how the bedroom tax will affect disabled people. This followed concerns from several charities that disabled people who cannot share a bedroom and carers would be penalised.

However the DWP press office tweeted last night: ‘No change in spare bedroom policy, as with all reforms we will monitor closely as it comes in this April.’ A spokesperson for the department today insisted there is no plan to change the policy but its impacts will be monitored

Why don't they build modern day prefabs of 1 and 2 bedrooms for the time being as a temporary measure(there should be much better materials available nowadays).
They could build them on brown sites etc or provide some land for them.
The way we're going we'll end up like America with trailer parks

Derek because if they do that, then it wont cause as much carnage and the working class peasants, sewer rats, Plebs, ... and whatever else they call us when they have their little posh get-together's, will be more comfortable and that will be a disaster for them as they intend on each and every one of us suffering as much as it is legally possible to do so.

the HAs were told by the government to knock down the 1 bed flats and build more modern family homes to meet demand, which they have through regeneration and now they are being told they will have to build more 1 bed flats just like what they knock down

I heard that WPH have no intention of building one beds. as it is not 'financially viable'.

Now to remember my source