'Bedroom Tax Victimising Mentally Ill Patients'

The government's controversial bedroom tax is victimising patients with mental health problems, a health campaigner has claimed.  Pam Jenkinson, president of Wokingham Mental Health Association in Berkshire, represented a woman suffering from depression, anxiety and anorexia at an unsuccessful appeal against the bedroom tax last week. The social housing tenant had fallen into arrears of £845 with Wokingham Borough Council after the local authority deemed she was under-occupying her two-bed flat.  Had she qualified for the higher rate of disability living allowance she would have been exempt for the bedroom tax. However, she only qualified for the middle rate of DLA and was consequently with hit with the tax, losing 14% of her weekly housing benefit. Read more on 24dash.