Monday, 29 February 2016

'Bedroom Tax' Cases To Be Considered At Supreme Court

Housing benefit changes - dubbed by critics the "bedroom tax" - are to be examined at the UK's highest court. Supreme Court judges are to consider appeals which claim the removal of the government's spare room subsidy is discriminatory in some cases. In addition, the government will challenge an earlier ruling which found in favour of a domestic abuse victim and a disabled boy's family. Last month the Court of Appeal ruled the policy had discriminated against Pembrokeshire couple Paul and Susan Rutherford and their 15-year-old grandson Warren and a woman identified as "A" who had a council house fitted with a panic room to protect her from a violent partner. Read more on the BBC website.

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