Sentences with phrase «spare room subsidy»

Do councils have the power — and the stomach — to resist the coalition's controversial spare room subsidy?

2.30 pm Local Government: Spare room subsidy cut is saving far more than thought as many come off benefits altogether

The TUC funded group False Economy has discovered that the cut in spare room subsidy has caused an increase in rent arrears.

The short term politics of Mr Miliband's spare room subsidy announcement are understandable.

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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.

When asked about the «bedroom tax», Clegg said he agreed implementation of the «spare room subsidy» had to be carefully thought through and that he would «keep under review» how councils are implementing it.

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.

Frank Field says: «Brick up your doors, knock down the walls» over the spare room subsidy / bedroom tax

12:30 - Cameron tries his old trick, of asking Miliband whether he would reverse the spare room subsidy.

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 Prime Minister replied: «Of course, we are cutting social rents in this parliament, so she will be paying less in rent... if she's concerned about the spare room subsidy, it's not paid by pensioners, a point which he failed to make.

Labour's spokesman on Work and Pensions Liam Byrne says the government's spare room subsidy is proving a disaster.

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 prime minister is adamant that changes to housing benefit are not a tax, but a «spare room subsidy», while Labour raises the so - called «bedroom tax» weekly at Prime Minister's Questions.

The council claims money from its revenue account is being lost when tenants fail to pay the spare room subsidy.

Cllr Forbes campaigns against spending cuts - including cuts in welfare spending, especially the welfare cap and reductions in the spare room subsidy.

The phrase is a conscious adaption of the coalition's «spare room subsidy», the term it tries to use when Labour attacks it for a «bedroom tax».

Mr Miliband said Labour would make up for the # 470m the spare room subsidy is meant to save by reversing some of the Government's tax cuts for businesses and George Osborne's «shares for rights» scheme.

So how would Labour pay for reinstatement of the spare room subsidy?

«Spare room subsidy!»

Labour seems to have shifted towards calling for the spare room subsidy to be restored.

«Removing the spare room subsidy has made the benefits system fairer for those who use it as well as those who pay for it.

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.

The Labour leader said today that scrapping the spare room subsidy would end «hardship and unfairness for so many families».

The spare room subsidy, also known as the «bedroom tax», is a housing benefit policy brought in by the coalition government.

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.

The absence of the information about house movements on the back of the bedroom tax — called a «spare room subsidy» by the government — raises questions about arguments from ministers that the policy was designed to save money and free up existing stock to cut housing queues.

There's a question on the spare room subsidy (bedroom tax to you and me) which does not prompt a comment about Len McClusky.

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.

While Ed Miliband repeatedly used the disputed «bedroom tax» phrase for what the prime minister referred to as the «spare room subsidy»

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.

Scandal of the UN's attack on the spare room subsidy cut

The removal in 2013 of what the government calls the spare room subsidy cuts benefits for social housing tenants with a «spare» room.

Conservatives claim the report by Raquel Rolnik is biased and one sided, and are angry that she referred to the benefits change as «the bedroom tax» rather than the «spare room subsidy».

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.

DHPs are important to disabled individuals who are suffering a rental shortfall because of the «bedroom tax» /» spare room subsidy».

• ensuring they are not adversely affected by the rules applying to «spare room subsidy» and the benefits cap, which currently works against potential family and friends carers taking on sibling groups; and • ensuring that all family and friends care households are exempt from the limiting of child tax credit to two children and are not penalised by changes to pension credit.