Bedroom Tax & Room Size

Every bedroom for bedroom tax purposes needs to have 110 square feet of floor space – that is what the HB regulations say!! The room size arguments have gone on and on in the bedroom tax and the Fife and other first tier tribunal decisions say bedroom needs to be 70 square feet and this is based on the reading across of legislation in the HA1985 and the HA2004.  A fierce argument has raged over whether HB decisions can or should have to read legislation as a consideration in the decision or not. The arguments are  irrelevant, the HB Regulations presuppose a bedroom needs to be 110 square feet!  Regulation B13(5) to be precise and that is a regulation we all know.  It says what classes of person(s) is allowed a bedroom with one allocated for children of different sexes if one aged over ten, a bedroom for two teenage children up to 16 if both of the same sex and a bedroom for a couple. Read more on the Speye blog.