'Bedroom Tax' Plans Are 'Perverse', Says Labour

The government's proposed change to housing benefit rules, dubbed the "bedroom tax", is "perverse", shadow minister Stephen Timms has said. On BBC Radio 4, Mr Timms warned that "lots of people will face hardship when they should be getting support".  Conservative chairman Grant Shapps said this argument was "absolute nonsense".  Mr Timms used the example of Hull, which he says has 4,700 people affected but only 73 smaller properties for people to downsize into, to illustrate that in some parts of the country people won’t be able to move to smaller homes.  Read more on the BBC website.