Bedroom Tax: Government Breaks Promise To Exempt Military Families

Ministers have quietly broken their promise to exempt military families from the Bedroom Tax. Soldiers’ homes stop being their main residence once they have moved into barracks, meaning their families are being hit with the hated charge as they are deemed to have “spare” rooms.  The damning revelation – in what is seen as the “ultimate betrayal” – comes despite ministers promising to spare “adult children in the Armed Forces” from the tax if they lived at home when they signed up.  Labour MP Tom Blenkinsop has branded the rules as “grossly unfair”.  Mr Blenkinsop said soldiers have been advised to ask commanding officers to sign letters confirming their main home was at their parents’, not in a barracks.  Read more on the Daily Mirror website.