'The Government’s controversial housing benefit reforms – dubbed the “bedroom tax” by Labour – have saved taxpayers around £1 billion, ministers claim.
Iain Duncan Smith, the Work and Pensions Secretary, said continuing to pay for properties with spare bedrooms would have cost the equivalent of £32 for every household in the country.
The bedroom tax has proved highly controversial since its introduction two years ago, with opposition politicians saying disabled people and the elderly have been hardest hit.'
What I bare faced liar this man is... just skip straight to the comments in the article and remember this is the Telegraph, IDS is fooling nobody any longer!
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/poli...1-billion.html