Wednesday, 30 January 2013

DPAC: Bedroom Tax and Discretionary Housing Payments





Posted: 29 Jan 2013 02:06 PM PST

Discretionary Housing Payments are to offset extra costs of so called Bedroom Tax but many local authorities are NOT advertising that this DHP is actually available. Yet the government is giving an extra 30 million pounds to LA’s specifically for this purpose. So for any disabled person facing a reduction in housing benefit due to [...]

Posted: 29 Jan 2013 11:47 AM PST

Hi there, My name is Lauren Layfield, I work on The One Show at the BBC. I wonder if you can help me? We’re desperately after families, single mums or single people who are going to be affected by the bedroom tax. I wondered if you knew of anyone who’d be willing to speak to[...]

Posted: 29 Jan 2013 08:48 AM PST

The government is inviting views from disabled people and carers as the bill reaches committee stage. Although the oral evidence session was cancelled, Parliament has agreed to open up its web forum to disabled people as well as carers to feed in our views to the Joint Committee, chaired by Paul Burstow MP, as it [...]

Posted: 29 Jan 2013 04:13 AM PST

The government is inviting views from disabled people and carers as the bill reaches committee stage. Although the oral evidence session was cancelled, Parliament has agreed to open up its web forum to disabled people as well as carers to feed in our views to the Joint Committee, chaired by Paul Burstow MP, as it [...]



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