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'About 6% of benefit claimants affected by the bedroom tax have moved as a result of the benefit changes, according to figures released under the Freedom of Information Act.

Reforms to cut housing benefit from council tenants with spare rooms have saved taxpayers £1m a day since they were imposed a year ago, according to the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP).

But the figures obtained by the BBC suggest that around 30,000 social housing tenants have moved because of the changes, which are partly designed to cut under-occupancy.'

'Changes to housing benefit in the social rented sector are expected to save £490m in 2013-14 and about £1bn by the end of 2014-15 – more than £1.3m a day, the DWP said'

So basically this exposes it never was an exercise to free up social housing, and was in fact just a tax on welfare claimants.

http://www.theguardian.com/society/2...d-home-figures