Bedroom Tax to Be Introduced Before Legal Challenge

A legal challenge to the government’s penalty for the under-occupation of social housing will not go ahead until after the policy is introduced on 1 April. A High Court judge has set a timetable for the case, saying the court will rule on whether it can go ahead by mid-March. If it does get the go ahead then a full hearing is unlikely to take place until May.  The challenge has been brought by 10 disabled people and their families. Under the under-occupation penalty, or ‘bedroom tax’, housing benefit for working-age social housing tenants will be cut if they are deemed to have spare rooms.  Read more on Inside Housing.