City Council Demands Answers over Bedroom Tax Cash - Scotland

[stu007]

This is to do with the Bedroom Tax but more importantly the Discretionary Housing Payment allocation to councils.

 

From The Evening Times this is the link:

 

http://www.eveningtimes.co.uk/news/city-demands-answers-over-bedroom-tax-cash-134331n.21946342

 

Where the article mentions COSLA they are the Convention of Scottish Local Authorities and their link is:

 

http://www.cosla.gov.uk/ if you want more information on them.

Edited August 26, 2013 by stu007

[citizenB]

City demands answers over bedroom tax cash

GLASGOW council leaders want urgent answers from the UK Government in a row over cash to beat the bedroom tax.

 

 

 

The UK Government has admitted it made an error in calculating how much six councils would receive for so-called Discretionary Housing Payments (DHP).

The payments, made by local authorities, are meant to help ease the problems being faced by people hit by the bedroom tax.

 

But an error by the Department of Work And Pensions means six Scottish councils are having to re-think their budgets.

A spokesman for Glasgow City Council said it is still unsure how the error will affect their budget and has passed the matter on to Cosla, the body which represents all of Scotland's councils.

 

 

 

Taken from the times link above.