“Bedroom Tax” Legal Challenge
Human rights organisation Liberty has announced that it has been granted permission to bring a Judicial Review of the Government’s controversial “bedroom tax”, based on the policy’s impact on separated families with shared custody of children. The scheme cuts parents’ Housing Benefit if they have a ‘spare room’, even if that room is used by […]
Warning over Housing Bill provisions
The Scottish Federation of Housing Associations (SFHA) recently appeared in front of the Scottish Parliament’s Infrastructure and Capital Investment (ICI) Committee, to give oral evidence on the Housing (Scotland) Bill. The Bill was introduced in November last year and contains a number of key provisions, including the abolition of the Right to Buy for council […]