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Iain Duncan Smith The ‘bedroom tax’ is forcing people to cut back on food and essential items while burdening them with large personal debts, an official government study has revealed.

New figures on emergency payments to benefit claimants reveal the UK government is creating horrific levels of destitution, according to an academic. Data published by the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) shows a dramatic increase in the number of people claiming hardship payments since strict

Mary Taylor Commenting on the DWP’s Housing Benefit caseload statistics which show that the City of Glasgow Area has the highest number of ‘bedroom tax’ cases in the UK at 12,443, the Scottish Federation of Housing Associations (SFHA) said that it hoped the new powers offered in the Scotland B