[Mrluvaluva]

Originally Posted by Kizzy

I would say a repeal is on the cards, for those on a fixed income like benefits it proves that they are not as some think raking it in.
As well as the extra bedroom tax this year there is also the £125 fixed contribution to council tax to find also, I would think this too has been impossible to budget for for some.
This must be most unwelcome for those local councils in deprived areas as they have in effect been cut adrift with these changes, services will begin to be affected as the reduction of support from central government will take it's toll.
I really am at a loss to understand why they didn't envisage this happening?
What is being offered as a solution, cardboard city?...

And what do the councils do when people don't pay their council tax? That's right. Fine them. Throw them into even more debt and then spend more money taking them to court. I think it's also stupid that parents with kids of a certain age have to downsize as they can share but will have to up size again in a year or two. In fact I watched a programme a few months ago when a couple got a council house as they were expecting a baby. When the house was signed over to them the baby was still not due for 9 days so they had to pay bedroom tax as it was under occupied. I bet the admin work involved cost more. Ridiculous.