The coalition government’s controversial ‘bedroom tax’, or spare room subsidy, is having a devastating effect upon local authority finances due to a shortfall in Discretionary Housing Payment (DHP) funding, the Local Government Association (LGA) has said.
Over 200,000 ‘bedroom tax’ victims have approached their local council for help in paying their rent through Discretionary Housing Payments in the last six months, after being hit by an average 14% cut in their Housing Benefit.
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