Investigate a fairer system than the current 'band' system of council tax.
Repeal the "Bedroom Tax", that punishes housing benefit claimants for having spare rooms, when in many cases, smaller properties are not available for them to move into.
@PaulJRobinson - almost 10 years ago
I support this, although I really dislike that the campaign to abolish it continues to call it a Bedroom Tax. There is a valid enough argument for abolition without having to resort to calling it something it isn't. Can we just call it by it's official designation of Spare-Room Subsidy?
That's not the official designation either, but yes, I take your point. The official name is I think the "size criteria" for housing benefit, as far as I can tell from http://www.housing.org.uk/policy/welfare-reform/bedroom-tax/.
@PaulJRobinson - almost 10 years ago
We can always use paretheses or quotation marks to denote it's more common usage.
On 22 April 2014 10:26, James Smith [email protected] wrote:
That's not the official designation either, but yes, I take your point. The official name is I think the "size criteria" for housing benefit, as far as I can tell from http://www.housing.org.uk/policy/welfare-reform/bedroom-tax/.
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Investigate a fairer system than the current 'band' system of council tax.
Repeal the size criteria for housing benefit (commonly known as the "Bedroom Tax"), which punishes housing benefit claimants for having spare rooms when in many cases smaller properties are not available for them to move into.
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@Floppy - almost 10 years ago