Kris Hopkins Says Disabled People Hit By Bedroom Tax Need to Change Their Ways

Housing Minister Kris Hopkins said some disabled people were having difficulty adjusting to the “cultural change” of how they spend their money.  His comments to the Work and Pensions Select Committee were branded “shocking” by Labour MPs.  Lord Freud revealed that 23,000 disabled people who need to stay in their adapted homes have been hit by the tax. But Mr Hopkins said some of them were having difficulties with the tax because they were “set in their ways” in relation to their spending. “There are vulnerable individuals, there are people who are set in their ways about the way that they spend and use their money,” he said to gasps of astonishment from MPs on the committee. Read more on the Daily Mirror website.