Another blow to the Bedroom Tax

[osdset]

First tier tribunal rules in favour of man claiming second bedroom for 15 year old daughter coming to stay with him.

The focus of his appeal was the right to family life, in other words that the Housing Benefit Regulations had to be read subject to the appellants right to a family life contained in the European Convention on Human Rights, enacted into domestic law by the Human Rights Act 1998.

http://speye.wordpress.com/2014/02/1...an-appeal-win/

 

Chipping away, bit by bit. How long before this disgusting tax is dead in the water?

[caro]

Excellent stuff.

[Nystagmite]

Good. This was really badly thought out.

[estellyn]

Well, just to bring you back down a bit (sorry)

 

 

this is still a first tier decision. Unless the LA's appeal these first tier decisions, there won't be any precedent setting decisions, which means yes, the bedroom tax will be chipped away at - but each individual will have to appeal, getting professional assistance with the appeal, in order to get their own decision changed.

 

 

It is entirely possible that the LA won't appeal the decisions as the government don't want precedent to be set - or the individual LA feels that by not appealing they are helping the claimant.

 

 

These decisions really need to be publicised by mainstream media, embarrassing the government and weakening the policy.

[worried33]

agreed, It seems all the mainstream media are ignoring this type of news, hardly independent.

 

According to a dispatches program the DWP has been contacting local authorities asking them to forward appeals onto them and they will appeal on the LA's behalf.

 

A LA told dispatches they dont fight appeal's as they do the minimum they are legally required to enforce the policy.