Families will be hit by the bedroom tax if a room remains
unoccupied for just three months after the death of a family member,
bereavement charities have warned. There have already been several cases of
families in social housing told that rooms left “spare” after the death of a
child or other family member will become subject to the controversial spare
room subsidy. Currently households are given 52 weeks before they are
reassessed, to allow them to decide whether to move or to re-occupy the room
before they incur cuts to their housing benefit. But under Universal Credit
scheme the stay of grace is to be cut to just three months, the National
Bereavement Alliance (NBA) said. Read more on the Independent website.
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