What If Pensioners Paid The Bedroom Tax?

Retired people are living in multiple-bedroom council houses in central London, according to research that shows how hundreds of millions of pounds would be cut from the welfare budget if the so-called bedroom tax were ever applied to pensioners.  Local authorities could save £400million a year if pensioners' housing benefits were cut to reflect the fact they have spare bedrooms, under a controversial reform applied to working-age families. Councils would save an average of £1.2million each if the DWP extended the "spare room subsidy" removal policy to pensioners, a survey using the Freedom of Information Act suggests. Read more on the Daily Telegraph website.