Anti-bedroom tax campaigners across the country will take part in a mass sleep out tomorrow night.
The sleep out is taking place in over 50 towns and cities across the UK in a bid to raise awareness about the government's controversial under-occupancy policy.
Liberal Democrat grassroot supporters are planning a revolt against the coalition’s controversial bedroom tax.
Activists have tabled a motion for next month’s party conference to demand a review of the policy, the Daily Mirror reported.
The Labour Party is set to lay into the government's expansive reforms of the benefits system later today.
Shadow work and pensions secretary Liam Byrne will claim that taxpayers are on course to lose £1.4 billion by 2015 as a result of the changes.
The vast majority of social housing tenants affected by the bedroom tax have no smaller properties available to them to downsize to.
Freedom of Information requests of local authorities by the Labour Party found that 96% of people hit by the government's controversial under-occupancy policy are effectively trapped in their current homes because of a countrywide lack of smaller accommodation.
Buy-to-let landlords are handing over more money to the taxman.
HMRC’s take from landlords in income tax on their rental income in 2010/11 was up 13% on the previous tax year.
Tenants on benefits are showing increasing signs of desperation as they search for private landlords who will accept them.
A Communities and Local Government select committee report out today on the private rented sector said moving people out of London was the only way councils could mitigate the impact of benefit caps.
Cuts to benefits had left local authorities with too few properties in their boroughs where they could afford to house claimants, the MPs found.
The “national roll-out” of Universal Credit will now only see the new system running at a handful of JobCentres across the UK this year, ministers confirmed.
Iain Duncan Smith, the Work and Pensions Secretary, insisted that Universal Credit remains on track and will fully operational by 2017. A more gradual timetable means the reform will be delivered “safely,” he said.
Tenants are continuing to vote with their feet in the most expensive parts of London, by moving out to cheaper areas.
Agents are reporting the ongoing exodus, amid an over-supply of properties, with landlords having to freeze or cut rents.
A mechanism to recover rent arrears is to be incorporated into the new Universal Credit system, by docking the benefit.
Landlords who are owed rent by tenants receiving benefit will be able to request direct payment once a certain level of rent arrears – as yet undecided – is reached.