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great pics rude, hope you taxed your mobile home. LOL

Lol- loads of peeps took pictures of it!

The turn outs will get bigger and bigger as more people realise what is happening.

http://iamunchienandalusia.wordpres...grassroots-anti-bedroom-tax-march-rally/

Brilliant atmosphere Bennie. The Feeder marches were fantastic!!

To all the people who keep stating on this topic, that the bedroom tax is not a tax, read this & button up.
@SkyNewsBreak Just to clarify the legal definition of the Bedroom Tax.

According to Black's Law Dictionary, a tax is a "pecuniary burden laid upon individuals or property owners to support the government a payment exacted by legislative authority." It "is not a voluntary payment or donation, but an enforced contribution, exacted pursuant to legislative authority" and is "any contribution imposed by government whether under the name of toll, tribute, tallage, gabel, impost, duty, custom, excise, subsidy, aid, supply, or other name."

Calling it a spare room subsidy is just a smoke screen, if you have to pay it & its set by legislative authority then it's a tax.

What exactly do you have to pay?

yes of course it's a tax Rottlady, if it was just to free up larger houses then they'd work with the housing associations to house people "appropriately" and not slap charges on those who can least afford it.

You obviously aren't keeping up with the point of this thread at all! What people who are effected by this tax have to pay is the difference between their rent and the benefit they receive which in the event of them having one too many bedrooms than the law says they need is 14% of their rent and with two too many is 25% of their rent. It's not difficult to understand!

They've been trying to do this for years, its not worked. People - especially older people - simply didn't want to move.

This might help, but it's got me confused. If a single person on JSA gets £71 plus housing benefit per week, where does the figure of £350 per week? Confused!
The graph also shows a huge and steady rise in claimants since 1990.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-21706978

Benefit cap from April 15th.

The cap - which will apply to England, Scotland and Wales - is estimated to be £350 per week for a single adult with no children and £500 per week for a couple or lone parent

its not difficult.but some bedroom tax is fair some not for example its the benefits who pay rent in the housing for a 2 or 3 bedroom so whats not to understand?if poeple are living in a large house with rooms not being used why do they need the rooms ?So dont troll a respected moderator

Your definition of 'troll' is far different from mine!
To answer the question you put "if poeple are living in a large house with rooms not being used why do they need the rooms"
If there were enough smaller houses or flats for 'over occupiers' to downsize to then this wouldn't be an issue but there aren't! They may not need the rooms but what is the alternative? There is nowhere for these people to go so they have to pay the difference! The governments stance that this tax will relieve the housing problem and shorten the waiting lists is preposterous, it is a simple money making scheme which will result in mass court cases leading to mass evictions and an increase in homelessness. I implore you to find out the facts of the matter before you attack a post on which you have no understanding.

Moan moan moan...so you have to pay some rent for your extra room/s.

Maybe put more effort into working...if you can protest and play on the internet all day..a few hours work instead and you'll earn enough to pay your rent!! Honest its been happening for years, people paying rent..welcome to the real world!!

Why should the taxpayer pay for people to have spare bedrooms???