Showing posts with label Statutory Minimum. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Statutory Minimum. Show all posts

Tuesday, 9 December 2014

The Elephant in the Bedroom

Finally, the Upper Tribunal decision on room size and the bedroom tax has been released.  And the upshot? Well, frankly a bit of a mess. The appeals were by the DWP of two FTT decisions that rooms of 64 square feet and 66.3 square feet were too small to be classed as bedrooms. As the UT put it, both the FTT decisions found that:
i) under occupancy can be seen as the flip side of overcrowding
ii) to be a bedroom a room should be large enough to be appropriate for use as a bedroom by an adult - or by two children, and
iii) had Parliament intended that these long-standing statutory minimum standards should be disregarded by the Tribunal, the FTT would have expected that to have been clearly stated in the legislation.

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