31 July 2013
High Court holds controversial tax does not discriminate
The “bedroom tax”—a cut of 14% where a housing benefit claimant has a surplus bedroom—does not unlawfully discriminate against disabled people, the High Court has held. However, Lord Justice Laws criticised the government for not acting sooner to protect disabled children. The case was brought by 10 families. One woman said she had to sleep in a specially adapted bed because of her spina bifida and there was no room for her husband’s bed. Other families said their homes had been specially adapted.
