Brian Dixon
- Location: Dover
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http://t.co/bX4gD3sktj
seems that the tories bedroom tax has taken a dent.
Keith Sansum1
- Location: london
- Registered: 25 Aug 2010
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interesting result
could open the floodgates
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Guest 671- Registered: 4 May 2008
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Ms Rolnik a United Nations official has refused to back down after enraging the Government by attacking its so-called "bedroom tax".
She claimed the change to housing benefit was causing "great stress and anxiety" to "very vulnerable" people, some of whom could barely afford to eat.
And after earlier saying the reform should be abolished, she suggested it should be "suspended immediately and fully re-evaluated" in the light of her findings.
http://news.sky.com/story/1140115/axe-bedroom-tax-says-un-investigator"My New Year's Resolution, is to try and emulate Marek's level of chilled out, thoughtfulness and humour towards other forumites and not lose my decorum"
Brian Dixon- Location: Dover
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at least its a start gary.
Guest 671- Registered: 4 May 2008
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Yes Brian and a very welcome one for 1000's of genuine disabled people.
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Guest 725- Registered: 7 Oct 2011
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I dunno where you guys get your information from but it's certainly not a tax.
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"My New Year's Resolution, is to try and emulate Marek's level of chilled out, thoughtfulness and humour towards other forumites and not lose my decorum"
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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technically philip is right but in effect the people that have had their benefit cut see it as a tax because of the hardship it causes.
Guest 671- Registered: 4 May 2008
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Howard.
The people that it is affecting don't care what it is called.
Debts will spiral, 4000% interest loans will soar, standard of living dive and the cost of these cuts will be measured in more than just financial ways.
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Guest 698- Registered: 28 May 2010
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I don't know which spin doctor first dressed up this benefit cut as a tax, but I'd rather have him on my side than against me. Sad thing is that so many people have swallowed the lie.
Having said that, it has been explained crudely and dismissively by the coalition and administered ineptly, arrogantly and unkindly by the local authorities whose job it is to apply it. There are provisions in the regulations for genuine hardship cases to be considered yet council jobsworths too often ride roughshod over the needs of the most vulnerable, who are usually those least able to plead their case.
This is a bad law and a gift to the opposition PR machine. Money has to be saved somewhere in the welfare budget but this is not it.
I'm an optimist. But I'm an optimist who takes my raincoat - Harold Wilson
Guest 710- Registered: 28 Feb 2011
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I fail to see how 'bedroom tax', or whatever you wish to call it, can be said to be saving money in any way.
An increase in incentive for people to downsize would go some way to assist with a wide-ranging house-building drive;helping the setting of priorities by giving a clearer picture of the type of housing stock needed.
This is not at all what is going on here.
This is just another weapon to help with the demonising of the poor.
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Guest 710- Registered: 28 Feb 2011
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Five disabled people win independent living fund appeal
Court of appeal judges overturn ruling that government's decision to close disability scheme was lawful
Report in full...
"Five disabled people have won their court of appeal bid to overturn the government's decision to abolish the independent living fund (ILF).
The ILF provides support enabling nearly 20,000 severely disabled people to live independent lives in the community.
The appeal by the five was against a high court ruling by Mr Justice Blake in April that the closure decision was lawful.
The five argued that the high court was wrong and there was a lack of proper consultation before the closure decision was taken on 18 December 2012.
Appeal judges Lord Justice Elias, Lord Justice Kitchin and Lord Justice McCombe allowed the challenge and quashed the 18 December decision.
McCombe said the evidence upon which the decision was based did not give "an adequate flavour of the responses received indicating that independent living might well be put seriously in peril for a large number of people"."
http://www.theguardian.com/society/2013/nov/06/disabled-people-win-living-fund-appeal Ignorance is bliss, bliss is happiness, I am happy...to draw your attention to the possible connectivity in the foregoing.
