Cruel, unfair and discriminatory
The recent ruling of the Court of Appeal confirmed what Labour, local councils, charities and campaign groups have been saying since the ‘bedroom tax’ was first introduced – it unfairly discriminates against society’s most vulnerable people.
The case involved a woman who had fled the most extreme domestic violence. She is a victim of rape, and had been harassed and stalked by a former partner who had threatened to kill her. Thousands of pounds have been spent by the police reinforcing her home’s security and fitting a panic room with links to the local police station. The panic room was deemed to be a spare room and therefore subject to the ‘bedroom tax’, costing the woman an additional £12 per week.
Read on… http://www.progressonline.org.uk/2016/01/29/cruel-unfair-and-discriminatory/
In this case, the local authority could have and should have exempted her from the tax but of course this is all political. I have just been told of a lady living in Council housing in Yorkshire. She lives alone in a 3 bedroomed property and pays NO Council Tax or Rent! How fair is this to young families wanting a home? Come on, it’s just like the Pole Tax which was the fairest way of people paying for local services as it depended on how many WORKING people lived in a property but Labour Councils were determined not to make it work and completely failed in their duty to collect this tax. They are a disgrace!!
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