I have been told that they have an article about Bedroom Tax loophole (page9)
Can you confirm this,cheers.
I have been told that they have an article about Bedroom Tax loophole (page9)
Can you confirm this,cheers.
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Can't see anything in Private Eye online but this from the Guardian:
"a drafting error in the legislation means thousands of working age tenants in social housing are for the time being exempt from the tax if they have lived in the same house since before 1996 and have been claiming housing benefit continuously since then".
Article:
http://www.theguardian.com/soc...s-stephanie-bottrill
Sorry you probably know this Erin. Finding info is your area of expertise
Good piece here:
No i don't subscribe.
Does that help?
Can't see anything in Private Eye online but this from the Guardian:
"a drafting error in the legislation means thousands of working age tenants in social housing are for the time being exempt from the tax if they have lived in the same house since before 1996 and have been claiming housing benefit continuously since then".
Article:
http://www.theguardian.com/soc...s-stephanie-bottrill
Sorry you probably know this Erin. Finding info is your area of expertise
I got info that the Daily record (national paper here) is going to be running a story and they are using info from Private eye, and I have a huge interest our council . Cheers
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Does that help?
It does
I know not to ask you anything PE related .
Joe's yer man
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It does
I know not to ask you anything PE related .
PE ?
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It does
I know not to ask you anything PE related .
PE ?
I refer you to the question .
Page 9 second article.
PS. It's the usual rammroading changes without considering all the constituents.
Page 9 second article.
can you copy it Col?
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It does
I know not to ask you anything PE related .
PE ?
I refer you to the question .
ooops
Page 9 second article.
She knows this already col. The article isn't available online so donks is right to refer to Garage as he may have a subscription to the paper version.
More trouble for work and pension minister IDS over what he calls the removal of the spare room subsidy, aka the bedroom tax, for housing benefit claimants.
An error in drafting the regulations means anyone who has been claiming benefit continuously for the same home since before 1996 should have been exempt. That means a small number of tenants (according to the DWP)or 40.000 (according to campaigners) will have to be refunded the ÂĢ 500 each they have been left out of pocket since April 2013.
Worse, some have been forced to move because of a penalty unlawfully applied, some have received discretionary housing payments that could have gone to someone else, and many local authoroties are struggling to identify the people affected because their records do not go back to 1996.
After a series of missteps on other elements of welfare reform, at least IDS can sonsole himself that it's all Laboutr's fault. "What we were left by the last government was this: 1,000 pages of complex housing benefit regulation" he told the Commons this month. "Under universal credit they will be reduced to 300 pages and we will simplify them. The reality is that this is a problem of the massive complexity of housing benefit that the last government left us."
But sorting it out takes time. Under the original timetable, the roll-out of his flagship welfare reform was due to begin in October 2013 for new claimants and April 2014 for for existing ones, to be completed by 2017, but after IDS was let down by t consultants, his cabinet collegues and his own civil servants, universal credit is only operating in a handful of jobcentres for the simplest of claimes. And with May 2015 rapidley approaching, it looks like it will all be the fault of .....the next government.
cheers your a star .I will email now .
Atta girl col!
Cologne She da man! woman even!
This is really interesting stuff (well done Erin and Col ) if possible could people post any updates about this here please? This could really help my Dad out.
This is really interesting stuff (well done Erin and Col ) if possible could people post any updates about this here please? This could really help my Dad out.
will do .
Thanx Erin, but I've checked with my Dad today and we don't think he's been living in his flat since 1996 so it wont help him
Thanx Erin, but I've checked with my Dad today and we don't think he's been living in his flat since 1996 so it wont help him
Gutted for you
We have 400 renters in North Lanarkshire that will benefit from this.
Thanx Erin, but I've checked with my Dad today and we don't think he's been living in his flat since 1996 so it wont help him
Gutted for you
We have 400 renters in North Lanarkshire that will benefit from this.
That's brilliant news Erin
Thanx Erin, but I've checked with my Dad today and we don't think he's been living in his flat since 1996 so it wont help him
Gutted for you
We have 400 renters in North Lanarkshire that will benefit from this.
Very good news.
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