Bedroom tax or spare room subsidy? The politicians may argue
over the title but one fact can't be ignored.
That's the growing evidence of council tenants facing real financial
difficulties. New figures from councils in the East
Midlands report a rise in the number of people applying for
emergency financial help to avoid eviction. Nottingham City Council has dealt
with 223 applications for financial help, a fourfold increase on April last
year. In Derby ,
it's 420 households, that's almost as many as the whole of last year. And in Leicester , there were 327 cases - six times as many as
April 2012. Read more on the BBC
website.
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