Hyndburn Residents to feel the effects of the bedroom tax

Church & Milnshaw Labour councillors this week have called on Central Government to condemn the unfair Bedroom tax which will hit residents living in social housing in the Hyndburn Area. It is estimated that over 700 homes will be affected in this unfair tax.Councillor Paul Cox has today seconded a motion to Full Council, 21st of March 2012, which highlights how vulnerable people are being hit and calls on the council to examine the measures they are putting in place to support local people.

David Cameron’s unfair and incompetent Bedroom Tax will hit, on a national scale, over 660,000 households, two thirds of them home to someone with a disability at exactly the same time as the
government gives a massive £100,000 tax cut to 13,000 millionaires.
Milnshaw Councillor Paul Cox said: “David Cameron’s Bedroom Tax will hammer families in Milnshaw and Church already struggling to make
ends meet, and could actually risk costing local tax-payers a fortune in higher private rents and covering the cost of driving people out of their homes.

Fellow Milnshaw Councillor, and Lancashire County Council candidate for Accrington North, Clare Pritchard added “Two thirds of the households hit are home to someone with a disability, and the families of soldiers and foster parents could possibly still be also hit. But thankfully thanks to public pressure this could, as yet, be avoided. Yet at the same time prisoners get off and millionaires are getting a massive tax cut. How can that be right?”

Everyone agrees the welfare bill needs to come down, but as a result of David Cameron’s economic failure the Government is now set to spend £13bn more on welfare than he had planned because of they are totally failing to get Britain moving again.

The best way to bring down the benefits bill is to get people into jobs. That’s why both Church ans Milnshaw councillors are calling for a tough but fair compulsory jobs guarantee. that would offer anyone who has been out of work for more than two years a real job – one that they would be required to take, no ifs and no buts.

Britain needs real welfare reform that is tough, fair and that works, not more chaos and confusion from David Cameron. His Bedroom Tax is unfair and in total disarray. He should now admit they he has got this horribly wrong and think again – before it’s too late.