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    Revealed: Devastating impact of 'bedroom tax' which forces

    huge leap in hardship handouts for tenants:

    Demand for emergency handouts increases by 338 per cent

    The extent of the suffering inflicted by the "bedroom tax" can be revealed for the first time today

    as figures show a 338 per cent leap in the number of people applying for emergency handouts

    in the month since it was imposed.

    In April, more than 25,000 people resorted to applying for discretionary housing payments

    (DHP) to help cover their rent, according to an analysis of 51 councils by The Independent.

    There were only 5,700 such claimants in the same month last year.

    Demand on the emergency fund - which is intended to provide short-term help to housing benefit

    claimants who are unable to pay their rent - is now so great that people who would previously

    have been given help may receive reduced handouts. Some applicants have already had their claims

    refused altogether.

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