The United Nations' special rapporteur on the right to adequate housing has told the Tory-led coalition that it should abolish its controversial bedroom tax.
Raquel Rolnik spoke to social housing tenants across the country during a two-week visit and heard "shocking" accounts from those hit by the under-occupancy policy.
Dozy Michael Gove has been ridiculed for dropping a Bedroom Tax clanger today.
The Education Secretary said for children to flourish it is crucial they have their own room - but it is BANNED under his Government’s hated tax.
Shocked staff at a Fife centre looked on in horror as a man said to be desperate for help over the ‘bedroom tax’ pulled out a knife and tried to cut himself.
According to one person, who asked not to be named, the apparent suicide bid ended in “blood everywhere — all over the walls and counters”.
About 25 people made their voices heard in Plymouth at the sleepout protest. Activists camped outside the Civic Centre on Saturday night to spread their message.
"Over 700 residents of Plymouth have already applied to downsize their home, as a means to escape the bedroom tax that they cannot afford.
Anti-bedroom tax campaigners across the country will take part in a mass sleep out tomorrow night.
The sleep out is taking place in over 50 towns and cities across the UK in a bid to raise awareness about the government's controversial under-occupancy policy.
Liberal Democrat grassroot supporters are planning a revolt against the coalition’s controversial bedroom tax.
Activists have tabled a motion for next month’s party conference to demand a review of the policy, the Daily Mirror reported.
The Labour Party is set to lay into the government's expansive reforms of the benefits system later today.
Shadow work and pensions secretary Liam Byrne will claim that taxpayers are on course to lose £1.4 billion by 2015 as a result of the changes.
Half of Universal Credit claimants in some areas could struggle to use the government’s online system because they lack IT skills and have limited internet access, local government pilots have found.
The findings come in a report by the Department for Work and Pensions about 12 local authority pilots of the new benefits system. It has been published as the Universal Credit system is rolled out to job centres in Oldham and Warrington, having been started in Wigan and Ashton-Under-Lyne earlier this year.
A Communities and Local Government select committee report out today on the private rented sector said moving people out of London was the only way councils could mitigate the impact of benefit caps.
Cuts to benefits had left local authorities with too few properties in their boroughs where they could afford to house claimants, the MPs found.
Chancellor George Osborne is considering lowering the benefits cap by a further £6,000, one of his aides confirmed today.
The Treasury will base a decision on whether to make the further cut depending on the effectiveness of the current benefit cap, which began its national roll-out on Monday, in reducing the welfare bill.