‘Bedroom Tax’ Wrongly Levied On Thousands of Homes

More than 16,000 people have been unlawfully charged due to the Government’s controversial “bedroom tax”. Freedom of Information (FOI) requests to 140 local authorities revealed that the number of people who have wrongly had their housing benefit cut is more than three times as many as ministers predicted. Labour claimed the “spare room subsidy” cut was in chaos.  Iain Duncan Smith told MPs last month that between 3,000 and 5,000 residents would be affected by the error. But housing charities say the figure could be as high as 40,000. The FOI requests, submitted by Labour, were sent to all 346 local authorities and 140 replied. Read more on the Independent website.