If you live in Copeland you have a 6% chance of getting a
bedroom tax DHP: Yet if you live in Westminster it is a 169% chance! Here is
the maths bit.
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The DWP release Housing Benefit statistics which
shows at February 2014 there were 914 bedroom tax households each losing £21.71
per week on average in Westminster.
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Yearly this is £1,132.79 per household and with
914 households gives a total bedroom tax cut in Westminster of £1,035,376 per
year.
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The DWP also released the HB circular S1/2014
which details how much each local authority gets per year in total DHP and
Westminster received £4,821,711 for 2014/15 in DHP of which just over 36% at
£1.75m (yes more than the total bedroom tax) was given.
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Of this £165m total DHP to all councils the DHP
has given £60m of this for bedroom tax or just over 36% of all DHP is allocated
to councils to pay for bedroom tax.
Read more on the Speye blog.
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