This petition was submitted during the 2015-2017 parliament
Petition Do not impose the Bedroom Tax on Pensioners
Pensioners have paid Taxes all their working lives now in their latter years with low state Pensions cannot afford to pay an unfair cut in Housing Benefit which is another form of Poll Tax.
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The Tory Government is soon to impose the Bedroom Tax on Pensioners by cutting Housing Benefit to OAPS that have extra bedrooms they say people don't use. Some couples need to sleep alone because of different ailments they have so need the extra bedroom, there is not enough Social Housing to rehouse everybody its Social Blackmail which is not Fair on people who have paid Taxes all their working lives and are about to be hit with an unfair Tax in their Twilight Years when they don't need the worry of it all
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