Tag Archives: carers

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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Council care-rating website goes live

November 11, 2013   Carers, DOH, Social care

By Richard Johnstone | 11 November 2013

A website allowing people to compare local adult social care services has been launched by care and support minister Norman Lamb today.

The Adult Social Care Outcomes site brings together existing data into one location to allow service users to find out more about care services in their council area, and compare options.

On the website, individuals can select their local authority, or type in a postcode, to find out how carers and service users rate local services. Ratings cover areas including quality of life, satisfaction with services, and safety.

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Affordable homes facing demolition because of bedroom tax

November 10, 2013   Carers, disability

Housing associations say change to benefit rules means tenants cannot afford to rent three-bed maisonettes

Rachel Reeves

Shadow work and pensions secretary Rachel Reeves says 660,000 vulnerable households are being hit by the bedroom tax. Photograph: Christopher Thomond for the Observer

Three-bedroom homes are being condemned to demolition by housing associations because the coalition’s bedroom tax has made them too expensive for tenants to live in, the Observer can reveal.

Despite a national property shortage, providers of affordable homes are unable to find people who can meet the cost of living in a home with an extra bedroom and are, in some cases, planning demolitions. In Liverpool, one housing provider, Magenta Living, has admitted that “with changes to welfare benefits there is very little prospect of letting upper three-bedroom maisonettes in the current climate”.

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