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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 

FM
Originally Posted by Roger the Alien:

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 

FM

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.

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