Category Archives: ukcuts

Merseyside woman to pay bedroom tax on sensory room for severely disabled daughter

January 2, 2014   Carers, disability, ukcuts

Dawn Lennon said she was now facing having to cut back on food in order to remain in her home

 
Dawn Lennon 52,from Castlefields,Runcorn,with her severely disabled daughter Kelly Marie 28,who is being charged Bedrom Tax for a spare room which is full of equipment.
By Marc Waddington

A Merseyside woman must pay the bedroom tax on a room which has been converted into a sensory area for her severely disabled daughter.

Dawn Lennon faces finding more than £570 a year because the government has deemed the room to be spare.

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Bedroom tax hits 60,000 families with carers

December 31, 2013   Alzheimer’s, benefits, Carers, Older care, ukcuts

About 60,000 families living in council homes where there is someone caring for an elderly or disabled relative have been caught out by the “bedroom tax”

Andy McSmith Author Biography Tuesday 31 December 2013

Answering a written question in the Commons, the Employment minister, Esther McVie, revealed: “Around 60,000 households affected by the removal of the spare room subsidy policy are in receipt of carer’s allowance or have an underlying entitlement to carer’s allowance.

The revelation follows a letter from the Disability Benefits Consortium, which represents 50 charities, pleading for disabled people and their carers to be exempt from the removal of the spare room subsidy

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MP’s blast over welfare ‘cruelty’

December 20, 2013   Carers, disability, ukcuts, welfare

The hardships being suffered by Blackpool residents were laid bare to Prime Minister David Cameron during a heated exchange in Parliament.

Blackpool South MP Gordon Marsden used yesterday’s Prime Minister’s Question Time to put pressure on Mr Cameron about the impact welfare reforms are having on ordinary people.

He said: “As the Prime Minister sits down for Christmas dinner to’ chillax’ with his family and friends, will he spare a thought for my Blackpool constituents, and half a million others, whose Christmas is mired in the incompetence and random cruelty of DWP’s benefits sanctions.

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