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Work longer to keep spare room, says pensions minister
Wait, what? ...OK, better not have any intentions of having any more kids...or just wanting a spare room for whatever.
People facing a cut in housing benefit because they have a spare room in their council home could work more hours to keep it, the pension minister has said.
Lib Dem Steve Webb said about 100,000 council and social housing tenants with jobs could be hit by the new rules.
From April families deemed to have too much living space will get less benefit - a change dubbed the "bedroom tax".
He told the BBC they could make up the shortfall by working longer - saying three hours a week would cover it.
Under the government's so-called "size criteria", families will be assessed for the number of bedrooms they actually need.
The change affects council tenants, and those renting from housing associations, of working age who receive housing benefit.
It does not affect claimants who rent in the private sector.
(More at http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-21366303)
How the fuck does that detached idiot expect people to be able to work more hours when zero-hours contracts are so fucking common? Especially among the lower-income brackets which will be hardest hit by this spare room tax?
Fucking disingenuous dipshit.
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Some working class have spare rooms so they get penalised by people who have spare houses.
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