With regards to the money offered for each bedroom, it obviously varies from place to place. Here is it £1,000 a bedroom with removal costs, and that is not assured, there is nothing to say everyone who take up the offer of moving will get it. Also that money won't go far in replacing carpets etc; in moving. The upheaval itself away from possibly family and friends, and also the trauma of the move itself especially for the disabled has to be considered, plus the fact as has been pointed out, there are not going to be the properties available for all who require the smaller properties so they have to carry on paying the bedroom tax.
Not all councils are happy to implicate it, and one of my sisters told me where she is, there are some three bedroomed flats that where one bedroom is so small, the council not consider that as 3 bedroomed property so have taken it upon themselves to declare them 2 bedroomed to help those in the properties re the bedroom tax.
I feel sure in time a loophole of some kind will be found that the tax is wrong and it will be done away with. I respect the debates of all for and againsts this goverment policy on this site. At the end of day imo this is a greedy government who are down on the most needy and going the wrong way about a lot of their Policies. A Goverment that is happy to take from the poor and needy without any compassion, yet want a substancial payrise at the same time. The bedroom tax is the tip of the iceberg and as time goes on I can see a stand being made against this Government by many. IMO, there is no way whatsoever they will be our next Goverment, although a lot of damage will have been done.
A lot of blame can be laid at previous Governements feet, and in a lot of instances rightly so, but it doesn't mean each subsequent Goverment need carry on such mistakes, and if you keep going back to previous Goverments mistakes, it pretty much started around the Thatcher era, another Tory Government.
There, I have said my piece and will leave it at that. Just needed that little rant
