Bedrooms and brickbats
The bedroom tax will probably survive
ON A sunny spring morning, a small group of protesters wait at the Department of Work and Pensions with a giant card for Iain Duncan Smith. It is his birthday. But the card also marks a year since the introduction of the “bedroom tax”, as opposition politicians call the welfare secretary’s scheme to encourage people in subsidised social housing to move to smaller properties. “One year on and still causing misery”, it reads.
This article appeared in the Britain section of the print edition under the headline “Bedrooms and brickbats”
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