Fresh calls have been made for the Tories to scrap the hated “bedroom tax” after judges ruled it discriminatory in two cases.
The SNP said they welcomed the Court of Appeal judgment following legal challenges from a domestic violence victim with a panic room and the grandparents of a teen who needs overnight care.
Eilidh Whiteford MP, the Nationalists’ social justice spokeswoman, said the Scottish Government has committed £90 million to ensure no one in Scotland is worse off from the housing policy.
“This is a tax that has no support but hits disadvantaged people. It epitomises the uncaring, unthinking and ultimately self-defeating approach of this Tory government,” she said.
The Department for Work and Pensions argued the policy, which it describes as “the removal of the spare room subsidy”, was not discriminatory because discretionary housing payments (DHPs) are available to people facing exceptional circumstances.
The so-called bedroom tax reduces benefit for those deemed to live in homes bigger than needed.
SNP call for end to ‘bedroom tax’ after Court of Appeal rulings
