Bedroom Tax Judgement, High Court, July 30th 9.30 am

9.30am Tuesday 30th July
Vigil outside Royal Courts of Justice
Bedroom Tax Judicial Review Judgement

Join us to gather outside the Royal Courts of Justice as the judgment in the ‘bedroom tax’ legal challenge is handed down.

In May, lawyers for 10 disabled people and their families challenged the government’s decision to cut housing benefit for recipients living in properties deemed too large during a three day hearing.

The bedroom tax discriminates against disabled people who need extra rooms for reasons related to their impairment and who cannot take up government suggestions of going out to work to make up the shortfall.
Two thirds of the 660,000 people affected nationally by the bedroom tax are disabled. The government knew the bedroom tax would have a disproportionate impact on disabled people but decided not to make an exemption for disabled adults because the scheme would then have been unable to make the savings they intended.

Linda Burnip from Disabled People Against Cuts said,

” People who have had thousands of pounds worth of adaptations made to their homes are being forced to move. Replacing those adaptations will cost councils far more money than this policy will save. As usual with DWP policies it is ill-thought through and makes no financial or moral sense to penalise disabled people in this way.”

We say that no one should have to move and the answer is to build more social housing. A legal victory against this rotten policy would highlight how unworkable and unfair the government’s so-called welfare reforms really are.

Bring banners, placards and solidarity.

DPAC