Severely disabled man lost home due to bedroom tax now has bath in paddling pool
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"This shocking picture exposes the brutal reality of David Cameron’s Bedroom Tax – a severely disabled man forced to bathe in a paddling pool in his living room.
The Sunday People is today publishing the photograph at the request of the family of Rob Tomlinson after he was driven out of his specially adapted home by the hated Tory tax.
For years Rob, 48, happily used a purpose-built walk-in shower at a four-bedroom house specially converted for him and his caring *relatives by the local council.
But after Work and Pensions Secretary Iain Duncan Smith imposed the Bedroom Tax, Rob’s family fell into debt as they struggled to pay the cost of being penalised for two spare rooms."
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/brutality-bedroom-tax-exposed-disgraceful-6302099
This is absolutely disgusting David Cameron and Ian Duncan Smith should hang their heads in shame. What has happened to this country when vulnerable disabled people are forced to life like this?
The Sunday People is today publishing the photograph at the request of the family of Rob Tomlinson after he was driven out of his specially adapted home by the hated Tory tax.
For years Rob, 48, happily used a purpose-built walk-in shower at a four-bedroom house specially converted for him and his caring *relatives by the local council.
But after Work and Pensions Secretary Iain Duncan Smith imposed the Bedroom Tax, Rob’s family fell into debt as they struggled to pay the cost of being penalised for two spare rooms."
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/brutality-bedroom-tax-exposed-disgraceful-6302099
This is absolutely disgusting David Cameron and Ian Duncan Smith should hang their heads in shame. What has happened to this country when vulnerable disabled people are forced to life like this?
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Functional psychopaths do not feel shame.
This bedroom tax is not a tax, it is a reduction of benefits, called the bedroom subsidy. I was also hit by this, but was determined to get a job, I now pay full rent, but have no penalties imposed for my extra bedroom.
I have also been sanctioned because I did not fill in my Universal Job Match properly for one week. The government have also claimed I was not entilted Working Family Tax Credits for one tax year, the start of which was when my daughter was in first year of college. They did not tell me why they wanted the £3000 back, I appealed and lost, but the strange thing was this was from 3 tax years ago, the tax claim was fine for the tax years either side. I told them I would pay this back at £10 a month, or take me to court, as there was proberbly some stupid legal loop hole for that year, or I forgot to dot an I or something stupid.
In short I hate this government, it is times like this when you think it would be good if we had a revolution and the people took over.
Nope, it has been taken over by an elderly couple who are except from paying the bedroom tax. So taking into account all the money the council had spent adapting the home for this chaps needs, and that it is still 'under-occupied', its a win all round...
I feel so upset and outraged by this.
Just disgraceful.
'There but for the grace of God go I' Cameron and Smith.
But if the council paid £70k for adaptations to the original house, surely they now have to do the same thing wherever the family are living now. Where is the economic logic in having to do that ?
In that case, its probably not benefits sanctions that are wrong, but some complete tossers in the housing department.
So either the government is stupid or it doesn't care about cases like this (or both).
How much would it "cost" to allow for exemptions in cases like this?
^^^^^^^^^^^^
Why are they exempt?
When a severely disabled person isn't?
This is a manifest and totally indefensible injustice, and Cameron should personally be called out on it. Utter disgrace.
Severely disabled people don't.
In one...
As an aside, I don't disagree in principle with the concept of making people pay extra if they have more bedrooms than they need. But the issue is what definition of need is being used, and the lack of suitable alternative housing for those caught up in this.
They can't say that though. So they should definitely be called to account.
They'd have to make an exception as there's absolutely no way out, without them looking like nazis.
Edit: it seems that bedroom tax doesn't apply to those over 65.
Agreed.
Not true
So you're all getting outraged at what looks like a simple cock up at local level.
Are they psychopaths though, or are they just simply arseholes?
There is a mechanism to rightly exempt people such as this gentleman and his carers, and it seems he obviously qualified, but it wasn't applied at local level. That is a cock-up and is simple maladministration. It doesn't make his plight any easier, but it isn't what is being suggested in this thread. At all.
My 84 year old Dad has a heart condition which means he cant have a hip replacement so he can barely walk and is disabled, not as disabled as the gentlemen in question but disabled none the less.
By all means lets have a discussion about this event (and I agree its disgraceful) but I for one am getting fed up with all this disabled V pensioner cr*p when often they are one and the same.