Taxpayers will see an estimated £234million wasted if the
Bedroom Tax forces disabled tenants to move from special homes. That is nearly
HALF the £500million the Government hoped to save this year with the hated
rules. Minister for Disabled People Esther McVey admitted: “We estimate around
35,000 claimants affected by removal of spare room subsidy live in
significantly adapted accommodation.” An average of £6,700 has already been spent
on making their homes suitable. If they have to move to smaller properties even
more cash will have to be spent adapting those. Read more on the Sunday People
website.
This budget fails to live up to Andy Burnham’s grand rhetoric | Letters
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*Caitlin Boswell* of Tax Justice UK and others on what Aditya Chakrabortty
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