The Truth about the Bedroom Tax. It Costs the Taxpayer MORE

Here is how the bedroom tax costs the taxpayer in just one case the princely sum of £7,398.92 per year more in Housing Benefit. The HB bill for one social tenant who downsized from a social housing 2 bed to a social housing 1 bed increases from £5,384.83 per year to £12,783.75 per year. This social housing tenant would have received £103.20 per week in HB in the £120 per week 2 bed social housing property after the 14% bedroom tax deduction was applied.  Yet she downsized to a 1 bed “affordable rent” (sic) social housing property with a rent of £245 per week all of which is payable in Housing Benefit as there is no bedroom tax and because the misnamed affordable rent property attracts 100% in HB. Read more on the Speye blog.