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    Exclusive: 50,000 people are facing eviction over bedroom tax

    One council tenant in three has been pushed into rent arrears since April, while tens of thousands in

    housing association properties are also affected

    More than 50,000 people affected by the so-called bedroom tax have fallen behind on rent and face

    eviction, figures given to The Independent show.

    The statistics reveal the scale of debt created by the Government's under-occupancy charge, as

    one council house tenant in three has been pushed into rent arrears since it was introduced in April.

    Figures provided by 114 local authorities across Britain after Freedom of Information (FoI) requests

    by the campaign group False Economy show the impact of the bedroom tax over its first four months

    . The total number of affected council tenants across Britain is likely to be much higher than the 50,000

    recorded in the sample of local authorities that responded to the FoI.

    At least another 30,000 people living in housing association properties have also fallen behind on

    rent payments since the bedroom tax came in, with potentially tens of thousands more also affected,

    according to separate research by the National Housing Federation

    Full story Independent..

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