The Government has introduced changes to housing benefit, a benefit paid to help people on low incomes pay their rent. Claimants receive between £50 and £100 a week. From this month, the Government has introduced 'size criteria' to determine the number of bedrooms a family will need. This has led the Labour Party to call the changes a 'bedroom tax'.
The changes mean that households judged to have one spare room will lose 14 per cent of their payment, while those with two or more will lose 25 per cent. The rules allow for one bedroom per adult or per couple, children under 16 of the same gender are expected to share and children under ten are expected to share regardless of gender.
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