Labour Whips · @labourwhips
11th Nov 2013 from TwitLonger
Here's Labour's motion on abolishing the Bedroom Tax...
Housing Benefit
That this House regrets the pernicious effect on vulnerable and in many cases disabled people of deductions being made from Housing Benefit paid to working age tenants in the social housing sector deemed to have an excess number of bedrooms in their homes; calls on the government to end these deductions with immediate effect; furthermore calls for any cost of ending them to be covered by reversing tax cuts which will benefit the wealthiest and promote avoidance, and addressing the tax loss from disguised employment in construction; further calls on the government to use the funding set aside for Discretionary Housing Payments to deal with under-occupation by funding local authorities who are able to help people with the cost of moving to suitable accommodation.