Families with disabled children unable to share a room

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Are now exempt from the 'bedroom tax'.

www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/disabled-exempted-from-bedroom-tax-8530285.html

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Thank heaven for that! Presumably there'll be yet more paperwork hoops to jump through to get this exemption, but it's a helluva lot better than the alternative.

Not impressed with Independent headline though: "Disabled exempted from bedroom tax" is a massive exaggeration. The actual exemption is very narrow.

Agreed. Disabled adults aren't exempt as far as I know. Which isn't good in situations when a couple can't sleep together due to disability, for example.

Still a deeply flawed policy and I'll still campaign for those who aren't feeling the same relief as me today.

Bedroom tax: pushing those ?getting by? over the edge

Despite the concessions made by Iain Duncan Smith yesterday, the bedroom tax will still hit thousands of disabled children and adults, and those fleeing domestic abuse, argues Frances Ryan as she speaks to some of the families affected.

www.newstatesman.com/voices/2013/03/bedroom-tax-pushing-those-getting-by-over-edge

Foster carers are going to be made exempt as well. I'm very pleased they have sorted out the only things that were wrong with this policy.

And teenage armed forces on deployment.

They knew damn well the foster carers thing was wrong. Amendments made in the Lords would have taken foster carers out of the scope of the bedroom tax - the government insisted on putting them back in. They've only reversed it now because people have noticed what they are up to.

Disabled adults will still suffer, as it seems will victims of domestic violence. The bedroom tax is completely unfair, ruddy cheeky from a government that is still failing to build enough houses (and was the party who sold off council housing in the first place, although the Labour government failed to do enough here as well). Especially cruel at a time when they are giving the rich a tax cut.