Labour reveal 2,181 hit by Bedroom Tax in Hackney North and Stoke Newington

06 Mar 2013
Labour reveal 2,181 hit by Bedroom Tax in Hackney North and Stoke Newington

Diane Abbott MP has today revealed National Housing Federation figures which show 2,181 will be hit by the government’s ‘Bedroom Tax’ losing on average £728 per year.

The Bedroom Tax will hit 660,000 households, two thirds of them home to someone with a disability at exactly the same time as the government gives a massive £100,000 tax cut to 13,000 millionaires.

Diane Abbott said:

“David Cameron’s Bedroom Tax will hammer families in Hackney already struggling to make ends meet, and could actually risk costing local tax-payers a fortune in higher private rents and covering the cost of driving people out of their homes.

“Two thirds of the households hit are home to someone with a disability, and the families of soldiers and foster parents will also be hit. Yet at the same time prisoners get off and millionaires are getting a massive tax cut. How can that be right?”

Labour’s Shadow Work and Pensions Secretary Liam Byrne said:

“David Cameron's April tax plan is simply not fair. From next month, 13,000 millionaires are getting a tax cut worth £100,000 a year on average while over 600,000 armed forces families, disabled people and foster carers have to find £728 a year to pay a new bedroom tax."

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