Govan Law Centre: First Tier Tribunal rules that dining rooms were not ‘under-occupie

[Legal Beagles]

Govan Law Centre (GLC)*has been successful in arguing that tenants who used a ‘bedroom’ as a dining room should not be subject to an under-occupation (commonly known as ‘the bedroom tax’) deduction from their housing benefit entitlement. In the case of ‘E’, the tenant has used her downstairs ‘bedroom’ as a dining room since the […]

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[SpringerSpaniel]

Re: Govan Law Centre: First Tier Tribunal rules that dining rooms were not ‘under-occ

There has been a case this week in the English jurisdiction, bedroom tax overturned as it was deemed unlawful discrimination on the basis of disability:

http://www.doughtystreet.co.uk/news/...-rights-appeal