Sentences with phrase «in spare room subsidy»
The TUC funded group False Economy has discovered that the cut in spare room subsidy has caused an increase in rent arrears.
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Since the election in 2010 the coalition government has placed a cap on the amount of benefits people can receive and introduced the Spare Room Subsidy that means people on housing benefit with more bedrooms than they needed had their benefits cut.
Turning to the spare room subsidy, in a week in which DWP Secretary of State Iain Duncan Smith had announced that foster carers and people whose teenage children were in the army would be excluded from it, he said that it had been clear from day one that the government's intention was that they wouldn't be affected by this.
The Labour leader will promise to reverse the policy known officially as the «spare room subsidy» on the first day of his party conference in Brighton.
Labour leader Ed Miliband will pledge to repeal the controversial housing benefit reform known as the spare room subsidy - or the «bedroom tax» - if his party win the next General Election in 2015.
The government reckoned 660,000 people were affected by the «spare room subsidy» - known to its opponents as the «bedroom tax» - but figures for northern Manchester suggest only 3 % of those affected in that area have downsized so far.
The Labour leader will call the spare room subsidy «a symbol of an out - of - touch, uncaring Tory Government» at his party's conference in Brighton tomorrow.
Local Government: Cutting the spare room subsidy will help the disabled in overcrowded housing
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The spare room subsidy, also known as the «bedroom tax», is a housing benefit policy brought in by the coalition government.
The removal of the spare - room subsidy has meant a reduction in benefits to social housing tenants with homes deemed larger than necessary.
With over a quarter of a million tenants living in overcrowded homes and 2 million on housing waiting lists, we need to end the spare room subsidy and ensure a better use of social housing.
David Cameron has been forced to defend the coalition's decision to end the «spare room subsidy» on a weekly basis in recent prime minister's questions.
The welfare reform - which the government refers to as the «spare room subsidy» - is the subject of an Opposition Day debate in the House of Commons.
The removal in 2013 of what the government calls the spare room subsidy cuts benefits for social housing tenants with a «spare» room.
The spare room subsidy was ended in April, in government plans to reduce the benefits bill and free up homes for families living in overcrowded conditions.