Welfare Reform: The Bedroom Tax, 'A Policy That Has No Logic'

Exactly how disruptive, wretched and illogical is the so-called "spare bedroom tax", and precisely how much chaos will it inflict on some of the UK's poorest families when it crashes into their lives in April?  To gain a feeling of how this policy is likely to play out Duncan Forbes, the chief executive of Bron Afon Community Housing in south Wales, and 60 of his staff visited tenants in early December to talk to them about the changes, and how they intended to cope. The staff were disturbed by what they found; Forbes collected some of their accounts and published them on Bron Afon's blog.  Read the real stories from tenants in Torfaen who will be affected by the ‘bedroom tax’ on the Bron Afon blog.