Tenants tell landlord they can take 'bedroom tax' hit

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Published by 24publishing for 24dash.com in Housing and also in Central Government, Communities, Development, Local Government

A housing association in the North West says some of the 2,300 tenants it has started to contact about housing benefit cuts believe they can afford to stay in their homes. Writing in next month's 24housing magazine, Brian Simpson, chief executive of Wirral Partnership Homes (WPH), said the the group had started calling the 2,300 tenants (just less than 20% of its total tenancies) who it believes will experience a deduction from their housing benefit as a result of under-occupying their home. Th...

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