Chris Bryant MP, Labour’s Shadow Minister for Welfare Reform, responding to urgent advice from the DWP over a loophole that may mean Bedroom Tax may have been wrongly applied to some Housing Benefit recipients, said:
“This is the latest example of the chaos and confusion within the Department of Work and Pensions under Iain Duncan Smith. Rather than closing loopholes in the policy, the Government should scrap their hated bedroom tax. If they don’t, the next Labour government will.”
DWP advice reveals that many Housing Benefit recipients who have been continuously living in the same property since 1996 should not have been charged Bedroom Tax, and must be repaid: