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		<title>You though the bedroom tax was bad! The much worse benefit cap starts in 4 weeks!!</title>
		<link>http://speye.wordpress.com/2013/06/17/you-though-the-bedroom-tax-was-bad-the-much-worse-benefit-cap-starts-in-4-weeks/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Jun 2013 14:51:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A maximum of £500 per week in total or overall benefit payments sounds a lot.  It is a lot.  Yet this overall benefit cap won’t save the public purse money at all, in factit will cost much more and as much as £1 BILLION per year more and the policy should be abandoned for the &#8230;<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=speye.wordpress.com&#038;blog=22281793&#038;post=2624&#038;subd=speye&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Bedroom Tax Sighs &#8211; well in those councils!</title>
		<link>http://speye.wordpress.com/2013/06/16/bedroom-tax-sighs-well-in-those-councils/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Jun 2013 12:54:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A council, Welwyn &#38; Hatfield, unilaterally decides any room with a floor space of less than 50 square feet is not a bedroom.  If one council can do this then so can every other council. Bristol and Nottingham social landlords state the same.  If a couple of social landlords can do this they so can &#8230;<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=speye.wordpress.com&#038;blog=22281793&#038;post=2616&#038;subd=speye&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Tory council rebels against the bedroom tax &#8211; the beginning of the end?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Jun 2013 20:22:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The 1985 Housing Act section 326 (c) reads: - No account shall be taken for the purposes of either Table of a room having a floor area of less than 50 square feet. To put into ordinary everyday language a room can NOT be a bedroom if it has a floor area of less than &#8230;<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=speye.wordpress.com&#038;blog=22281793&#038;post=2608&#038;subd=speye&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Bedroom Tax Arrears &#8211; Huge and why social landlords need a major rethink</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Jun 2013 15:15:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The bedroom tax is in its 11th week and social housing is already in chaos.  It doesn’t augur well for social housing in its entirety and that is not hyperbole or exaggeration. The scale of the non-payment and part-payments of the tenant rent shortfall the bedroom tax creates is giving shockwaves in the boardroom of &#8230;<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=speye.wordpress.com&#038;blog=22281793&#038;post=2603&#038;subd=speye&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Esther McVey and the OED</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Jun 2013 11:04:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am seriously contemplating whether to ask the OED to include a new verb called “to mcvey” be included in the next edition to mean to knowingly mislead the general public and parliament.   Then Esther McVey, the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Work and Pensions will have what all MPs seek &#8211; her name in &#8230;<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=speye.wordpress.com&#038;blog=22281793&#038;post=2600&#038;subd=speye&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Bedroom Tax &#8211; Landlord &#8211; reclassify all properties you financial idiot!</title>
		<link>http://speye.wordpress.com/2013/06/12/bedroom-tax-landlord-reclassify-all-properties-you-financial-idiot/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Jun 2013 14:55:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>joehalewood</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Social landlords should not only reclassify, they should reclassify all their properties and is very much in their financial interests to do so. Yet social landlord after social landlord is coming up with every excuse in the book not to do this and some of them are even creating fictitious government “rules” which say disallows &#8230;<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=speye.wordpress.com&#038;blog=22281793&#038;post=2595&#038;subd=speye&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Bedroom tax &#8211; Councils lie upon lie over what a bedroom is in law</title>
		<link>http://speye.wordpress.com/2013/06/10/bedroom-tax-councils-lie-upon-lie-over-what-a-bedroom-is-in-law/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Jun 2013 12:25:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We all know the analogy of a child telling a little white lie and then an even bigger one and then still bigger ones to cover up the original lie.  That reminds me of what Councils have done with the bedroom tax decisions.  Paragraph 12 of the A4/2012 guidance which all Councils quote back at &#8230;<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=speye.wordpress.com&#038;blog=22281793&#038;post=2580&#038;subd=speye&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Don&#8217;t pay the bedroom tax &#8211; is coalition policy!</title>
		<link>http://speye.wordpress.com/2013/06/07/dont-pay-the-bedroom-tax-is-coalition-policy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Jun 2013 14:54:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Don&#8217;t pay the bedroom tax is government policy! Don&#8217;t believe me?  Take a look again at what DWP Minister Steve Webb said in parliament on 27th February in the last major bedroom tax debate and you will see that statement is correct and it is government policy for tenants not to pay the bedroom tax &#8230;<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=speye.wordpress.com&#038;blog=22281793&#038;post=2571&#038;subd=speye&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Labour&#8217;s woeful and inept plans to address high private HB costs</title>
		<link>http://speye.wordpress.com/2013/06/06/labours-woeful-and-inept-plans-to-address-high-private-hb-costs/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Jun 2013 16:00:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ed Miliband has made today what many have said – mostly before he spoke – as an important speech around welfare, or what he carefully called social security as &#8216;welfare’ is perhaps the dirtiest word in the political lexicon and a term Labour is seeking to avoid as many suggest the next election will be &#8230;<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=speye.wordpress.com&#038;blog=22281793&#038;post=2564&#038;subd=speye&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>DHPs &#8211; universal panacea or a huge transfer of cost to local councils and even more landlord heat?</title>
		<link>http://speye.wordpress.com/2013/06/06/dhps-universal-panacea-or-a-huge-transfer-of-cost-to-local-councils-and-even-more-landlord-heat/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Jun 2013 13:31:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This post began about the inadequacy of DHPs and the early experiences and reports of what is happening.  It then began to discuss what this means for councils and uses Liverpool City Council figures to explain. The inadequate DHPs do transfer financial risk from central to local government and gives local councils huge added costs &#8230;<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=speye.wordpress.com&#038;blog=22281793&#038;post=2550&#038;subd=speye&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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