Everything you need to know about the policy that the government describes as the ‘the removal of the spare room subsidy’As allotment of a host of benefit changes introduced on 1 April 2013 under the Welfare Reform Act 2012,the government removed what it called the spare room subsidy. Under the changes, tenants in social housing beget their benefit reduced by 14% if they beget a spare bedroom or 25% if they beget two or more. Two children under 16 of the same gender are expected to share one bedroom, or as are two children under 10,regardless of gender. On average, a tenant affected by the bedroom tax is losing between £14 and £25 a week.
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Source: theguardian.com