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  Eton mess is perfect to end a `Party`.................
  
  Courtesy Independent...........
  
  Revealed: 'Big lie' behind the bedroom tax as families trapped with nowhere to move so cannot
  
  avoid new penalty for having spare room
  
  96% of benefit claimants who will be penalised cannot be rehoused
  
  The Government's justification for its controversial "bedroom tax" has been debunked by new figures
  
  showing that up to 96 per cent of those affected have, in effect, nowhere to move.
  
  The figures published today in The Independent expose the false argument behind ministerial
  
  attempts to spin the move as ending the "spare-room subsidy", and confirm campaigners' claims
  
  that it merely penalises poor people.
  
  The policy means that tenants have their housing benefit reduced by 14 per cent if they have
  
  one spare bedroom, and 25 per cent if they have two or more spare bedrooms.
  
  Yet more than 19 out of 20 families hit by the bedroom tax are trapped in their larger homes
  
  because there is nowhere smaller within the local social housing stock to take them.
  
  This is shown by figures provided by councils in response to Freedom of Information requests.
  
  For the 38 councils that provided full data, 99,079 families are expected to be affected by the
  
  bedroom tax, but only 3,803 one and two-bedroom social housing properties are available - just
  
  3.8 per cent of the homes required to rehouse the families who are hit.

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