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.
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