Bedroom Tax

[pdq1]

Shortly to be introduced in April where spare bedrooms are heavily taxed.
Many couples sleep in separate bedrooms but because they are married they are classed as sleeping together. Gay relationships may also run into a problem.

Is this a well thought out policy or an excellent way of getting families to downsize?

[anotheoldgit]

I wonder how far we are away from WW2 days, the days when if one lived in a large house with spare rooms, the 'billeting officer' would knock on one's door to see how many evacuees, service personnel, nurses etc, one could take in?

[pdq1]

Couldn't this tax have unintended consequences. For instance it could encourage families to have more children to fill the vacant bedrooms?

[LoftyLottie]

I lived in social housing until I was 15 ,em. I wish people would not call people that have scrimped saved and lived on meagre earnings to buy their own home 'Lucky'. It's far from the truth and smacks of envy.

[emmie]

and i wish that those who scrimped and weren't able to save much not be thought of as expendable, and that once older should be made to move out.
I would rather own than rent, that wasn't possible. But i do know some who have been asked by the council to move, and there will lots of changes coming in this April, so we will see what happens then.

[emmie]

i don't do envy.

[BRIGHT SPARK]

Millions of bedrooms have been transferred to the private sector via the right to buy scheme at heavily discounted prices.Few new social houses are being built to replace them and so the tenants will now have to move over as it were to give way to larger families.Not fair I know but lifes a bitch and then you die!