Tag Archives: bedroom tax

‘Bedroom tax’ test cases considered

January 19, 2014   Carers, disability

Disabled people are taking their legal challenge to the Government’s so-called “bedroom tax” to the Court of Appeal.

 
Disabled people are taking their legal challenge to the Government’s so-called “bedroom tax” to the Court of Appeal.

Appeal judges will tomorrow consider several test cases brought by two law firms said to illustrate the “devastating” impact of the regulations up and down the country in social housing.

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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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25 reasons your MP must kill David Cameron’s Bedroom Tax

November 12, 2013   benefits, Carers, disability

The Bedroom Tax is incompetent as well as cruel – no wonder campaigners are calling it David Cameron’s Poll Tax, an attack on the most vulnerable

No thank you: A demonstration against bedroom tax in Newcastle Upon Tyne
No thank you: A demonstration against bedroom tax in Newcastle Upon Tyne

In the House of Commons, MPs face a critical vote on the Bedroom Tax – called by Labour.

The party is using ‘Opposition Day’ to bring forward a motion on the tax that calls for an immediate end to the policy.

It also asks the House to regret its “pernicious effect on vulnerable, and in many cases disabled, people” and calls the government reverse tax cuts for the wealthiest people instead.

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