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Oral Answers to Questions — Work and Pensions: Discretionary Housing Payments ( 9 Mar 2015)

Paul Flynn: ...that any degradation of discretionary housing payments will threaten to “cut the parachute cord” that keeps so many vulnerable families from the homelessness and destitution created by the foul bedroom tax? Will he give an absolute guarantee that the payments will be not only maintained in real terms, but possibly increased when necessary, and ring-fenced?

Oral Answers to Questions — Work and Pensions: Discretionary Housing Payments ( 9 Mar 2015)

Andrew Gwynne: What has the Minister got to say to my constituent Mr Cocks, who has not only lived in his two-bedroom house in Denton for more than six decades, but was born there? This is not a house; it is his home. Last year he qualified for a discretionary housing payment, but he has been refused one for next year. Is this not yet another example of how cruel the bedroom tax can be, given that in a few...

Oral Answers to Questions — Work and Pensions: Discretionary Housing Payments ( 9 Mar 2015)

Helen Goodman: Each year, local authorities are spending nearly £200 million on adapting properties for disabled people. Then the Government come along and try to move them out of those properties by imposing the bedroom tax. Will the Minister now admit that that is a prime example of Tory welfare waste?


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