Bedroom Tax
86 if you have 1 spare room.
Bedroom tax. The maximum rent that can be covered is reduced by. In some circumstances a severely disabled child is to be allowed their own bed room usually if they would seriously disrupt the sleep of another child in the property at night if they were to share a room. Especially by critics of the changes who argue that they amount to a tax because of the lack of social housing or in some areas any rented accommodation for affected tenants to downsize to and the refusal to accept the risk of taking in lodgers. The tax officially called under occupancy tax means people of a working age in social housing who have a spare bedroom have found their housing benefit claims reduced by 40 to 80.
14 for 1 spare bedroom. The supreme court has ruled against the uk government s attempts to force the bedroom tax on 155 partners of people with severe disabilities in a decision that will hamper ministerial attempts. Your eligible rent is 100 per week but you have 1 spare bedroom. How does the bedroom tax work.
Bedroom tax will not affect you if you receive a state pension or rent a shared ownership property. You may not be affected if you have a severely disabled child who requires their own room. You are allowed to appeal against a bedroom tax decision. The under occupancy penalty spare room subsidy or bedroom tax as it s more commonly known is a welfare reform that sees housing benefit reduced if a tenant has a spare bedroom.
If your rent is 100 a week the maximum benefit you get to help with rent is. Your housing benefit will be calculated using that. The bedroom tax affects how much of your rent can be covered by housing benefit or the universal credit housing element. The most common reason for appealing is because you require the extra bedroom because you your partner your child or non dependant adult has overnight care needs.
25 for 2 or more spare bedrooms. As part 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 under occupancy penalty is more commonly referred to as the bedroom tax.