Bedroom Tax Policy Essay

This assignment will explore how bedroom tax has affected thousands of people in Great Britain since it was first introduced in 2013 by coroallation Government. Furthermore, it will highlight the views across the populations and how some people are managing their daily life.
The current British government has introduced bedroom tax policy 2013 to cut down government spending. The policy applies to those who are in receipt of housing benefit and among those are tenants of social housing and are in working age group. Moreover, it also affect people who have unoccupied bedrooms in particularly those whom their children are already grown up and left their parents homes. Consequently, this has resulted in having the benefit capped and has affected over 66,000 people across Britain. A research took place over the period of two years and over 400 people were interviews, the result showed that people of working age group living in social housing are hit with distressful time of their lives. This has impacted people in different ways such as and some of them have admitted of thinking to commit suicides. Additionally, …show more content…
For example a family from Wovermpton who raised their two children in social housing had their benefit cut by 25% because they have two unoccupied bedrooms due to the children moving out. These impacts have resulted in loosing families’ connection because their children cannot visit and stay for the reason that they have nowhere to stay overnight while visiting their parents. Also, a number of people who are most affected are those who are not into work due to some illnesses , disability and this had impacts on their lives because they cannot go back to work and support themselves in terms of paying rent. According to one tenants who suffer phobia of going out and has not left her property in the last 20 years had to face eviction from her local council