[Kizzy]

How to get rid of the bedroom tax as a policy . It is a simple letter saying that all social tenants should query the bedroom tax decision. They should write to their local council asking HOW they made the bedroom tax decision and request further information such as written copies of the bedroom tax policies it has. Using Liverpool as an example it would see the council there needing 632 officers just to deal with such requests from the 12,649 bedroom tax tenants in Liverpool. This would apply to every council of course and give huge cost and huge disruption to the councils and is perfectly lawful, and in fact is your absolute right.
It need not even cost you the price of a stamp as you can hand it in to your local council one-stop shop. There is also nothing to stop you asking for more information and more explanation on a daily basis with different questions each time – heaping chaos onto chaos onto chaos. That meltdown is of course unfair on your local council and they have only made the decision following orders from central government.
Yet they will start ‘moaning’ and moaning en masse to central government over the cost and pressure starts to build on central government. Because Housing Benefit staff at your local council are running around like headless chickens complying with your request for further information and explanation, their normal work suffers. The landlords, both social landlords and private landlords will see delays in deciding and paying HB claims and private landlords may well decide the benefit claimant is too much trouble and start evicting….which means your local council has more and more work and cost of much higher homelessness cases…as does central government too.

[Vicky.]

http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2013...n_3280442.html

Good luck to these people. I really think they have a good case here

Also, DWP finally admit that its a money saving exercise and not about freeing up housing for sardine families as previously claimed...

The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) rejects the "bedroom tax" tag and says the reality is that "a spare room subsidy" has been removed from social sector tenants.

DWP lawyers say reduction of rising housing benefit expenditure is an "integral aspect" of the Government's deficit reduction programme, and the change in regulations is expected to produce savings of £500m a year.