How Does Bedroom Tax Work

Remember that the kitchen bathrooms and hallways don t count.

How does bedroom tax work. The most common reason for appealing is because you require the extra bedroom because you your partner your child or non dependant adult has overnight care needs. Tot up all your expenses for the year from april 6 to april 5. Each other couple only if you claim hb each other person aged 16 or over even if part of a couple if you claim uc 2 children under 16 of the same sex. Work out your bedroom entitlement.

You can generally claim for 1 bedroom for each of the following. Divide your total expenses for the tax year by the number of rooms in your house. As part of a host of benefit changes introduced on 1 april 2013 under the welfare reform act 2012 the government removed what it called the spare room subsidy under. The bedroom tax affects working age people who live in social housing and who get help towards their rent through housing benefit or the universal credit housing costs element it means that they can have the amount they receive restricted if they are considered to have too many bedrooms.

Challenging a bedroom tax decision. The rules for calculating allowed bedrooms are the same as for local housing allowance for benefit claimants in. How does the bedroom tax work. The supreme court has ruled against the uk government s attempts to force the bedroom tax on 155 partners of people with severe disabilities in a decision that will hamper ministerial attempts.

That means your eligible rent is reduced by 14 to 86 per week. Your eligible rent is 100 per week but you have 1 spare bedroom. Having one bedroom more than the calculated allowance means a reduction in housing benefit of 14 and two spare bedrooms means that a tenant will lose 25 of their housing benefit. A change in housing benefit rules introduced in april 2013 has been dubbed the bedroom tax by labour and for many the name has stuck.

You and a partner if claiming as a couple. Your housing benefit will be calculated using that. Strictly speaking though it is not a tax at all. Bedroom tax is a housing benefit reform an under occupation charge it will be introduced on 1st april everywhere except northern ireland.

You are allowed to appeal against a bedroom tax decision.