In message , at 11:35:02 on
Tue, 20 Jun 2017, Tim Streater remarked:

Make one or two of the two bed flats into a one bed flats, according to
some there is a real shortage of one bed flats to avoid the bedroom tax.

Brilliant thinking. The purpose of the bedroom tax was to get people out
of accommodation larger than they need to release it for those more
deserving. Allegedly. Rather than just to tax the poor more.

It's not of course a "tax" at all, but a cap on the amount of housing
benefit that's paid, having looked at your needs and the accommodation
in question[1].

Perhaps Dave could explain in what way it's a tax. HMRC collects it, do
they?

Branding something a "tax" is just a popularist nickname. Just like
*raising* the social care means test threshold from £23k to £100k is
called a "dementure tax".

(And dementure isn't the sole reason why people need social care,
either).
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Roland Perry