BarryW.
To save you time trawling through old threads and as I know you are looking into this one.
How do you think cuts like the one below are going to help our economy recover or how these type of cuts will benefit us in any way?
Tony, Diann and their two daughters live in 3 bed house in Hull. Shanice is three years old. But their 15 year old daughter Stephanie is disabled.
She has 1p36 deletion syndrome, a genetic disorder that causes severe intellectual disability. So she has problems with mobility, speech and language. She has a mental age of a four or five year old.
At the moment, all three bedrooms are accounted for: One for mum and dad, one for Shanice and one for Stephanie.
15-year-old Stephanie requires 24 hour care from her parents. Credit: Family
From April, as social tenants, they will face a cut in their benefits to pay the government's so called 'bedroom tax'. Under new rules, the two girls will have to share a bedroom, because they're both under 16 and both of the same gender.
Therefore, the family will be deemed as having a spare bedroom.
So they have a choice: Take a 14% cut in benefits or downsize to a smaller place.
http://www.itv.com/news/2013-02-08/disabled-children-and-their-families-hit-by-governments-bedroom-tax/