People with disabilities challenging the bedroom tax have
said that they will continue to fight after the Court of Appeal upheld last
year’s High Court ruling that the government’s controversial under-occupancy policy
is lawful. Though the court's judges found that the bedroom tax discriminates
against people with disabilities, they were satisfied that the Secretary of
State for Work and Pension had justified the discriminatory effect of the
policy. In particular, the court was
satisfied that the needs of disabled people subject to the bedroom tax were
being met by means of discretionary housing payments and that for the
appellants and other disabled persons in a similar situation their needs for
assistance with payment of their rent were in fact better dealt with by DHPs
than housing benefit. Read more on 24dash.
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