Labour and Scottish National Party-led Edinburgh Council has said it is forced to implement a policy which rejects applicants for discretionary hardship payments to help with the ‘bedroom tax’ if they spend too much on ‘luxuries’.
In an interview in Inside Housing magazine, Cammy Day, vice-convenor of the health, well-being and housing committee, told the magazine “As a result of a policy imposed by the Conservative Party we are having to do this, otherwise our entire DHP allocation would have been spent in the first three months .
A powerful account about the latest Tory
assault on the poor. I'm no expert on legal matters but this sounds to me like a
gross breach of the Human Rights Act i.e. the right to a private life. If they
get away with this without challenge will it set a precedent and mean that
anyone dependent on the state for any amount of financial support is exempt from
human rights? One step closer to slavery...
