The National Housing Federation has released a report highlighting the impact of 100 days of the bedroom tax in Merseyside:
? 26,500 households in Merseyside are affected by the bedroom tax, only 155 managed to downsize due to shortage of smaller homes.
? 19,055 disabled people in Merseyside are losing over £13m a year due to the bedroom tax. Some grants are available but for three months only.
? 14,000 Merseyside households fell into arrears with their rent in the first four weeks.
?The bedroom tax is hurting the most vulnerable people in Merseyside. It is time to face the facts and repeal this unfair policy now.? David Orr, Chief Executive of the National Housing Federation
Read the National Housing Federation's summary here
bit.ly/1beczNM (includes a link to the pdf report)
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More than half of benefit claimants ruled fit to work ended up destitute !
MORE than HALF of people stripped of disability benefits after being ruled ?fit for work? by Atos Origin were left unemployed and without income, according to a Government study.
The Department for Work and Pensions - DWP, who hired the French IT firm to help them slash the benefits bill, have admitted finding out in a survey that 55 per cent of people who lost benefits in the crackdown had failed to find work.
Only 15 per cent were in jobs, with 30 per cent on other benefits.
The DWP claimed people left high and dry were given ?tailored support? to find jobs.
But the extent of the hardship suffered by the Atos victims in the study will only add to the growing public fury about the firm and their methods.
Atos have assessed patients with terminal illnesses as ?fit for work?. And thousands of victims of genuine, chronic conditions have complained of being humiliated by the company?s tests.
So far, Citizens Advice in Scotland have received a shocking 24,000 complaints about Atos, who rake in £110million a year from the taxpayer for their controversial work.
The extent of unemployment among people denied benefits after Atos assessments was revealed by the DWP after a Freedom of Information request.
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