Sheffield City Council has pledged to support hundreds of
social housing tenants wrongly charged with the controversial bedroom tax. The
council says it has already identified a number of tenants who shouldn't have
paid it. It is believed that around 500 tenants in the city have been wrongly
charged. If accurate, the number of victims in Sheffield alone represents over
one tenth of all those wrongly charged in the UK, based on the DWP estimate of "less
than 5,000". The council is now seeking recompense for wrongly charged
tenants and is advising those who think they may have been affected to contact
their landlord. Read more on 24dash.
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