Bedroom Tax – How Cameron Has Lied To Pensioners

Pensioners, more correctly the mixed-age couple, i.e. where one has reached state pension qualifying age and the other has not, will be hit by the bedroom tax. Last week I put out a blog stating that mixed-age pensioners will be hit by the bedroom tax, not initially in April but from October when Universal Credit kicks in. I was wrong.  They can be hit by the bedroom tax from April, yes in just 9 weeks time!  Cameron has said he has guaranteed pensioners will not lose ANY universal benefits during this parliament.  Yet this will happen as we can see below;

    *Pensioners can be hit by the bedroom tax in April

    *Pensioners can be hit with 65% tax rates or 100% tax rates if they work

    *Pensioners can and will be hit by the overall benefit cap

    *Pensioners that work will lose universal benefits such as cold weather payments

    *Mixed-age pensioner couples will receive less in benefits that a single pensioner £1714 per year less to be exact!

    *Mixed-age pensioners may well see a higher divorce rate

    *The coalition changes will see pensioners being poorer

    *Universal Credit says that a mixed-age pensioner couple have lower needs than a single pensioner!! (No you couldn’t make it up could you!)

    “All in-work help will disappear for them at a time when pension age is rising and more people have to continue working into old age”

Read more on the Speye blog.