Some pensioners with spare rooms will be hit by reductions in housing benefit under what critics dub the Government's "bedroom tax", the Department of Work and Pensions said. A ComRes poll reveals most of the British public want to delay the tax.
There were angry exhanges in the Commons today when the Labour leader Ed Miliband attacked the Prime Minister over the introduction of the so called 'bedroom tax'.
ITV News' earlier report on this featured some people who will have their benefit payments cut because they are deemed to have a spare bedroom.
Watch: Tenants hit by 'bedroom tax' tell of financial misery
ITV News' Political Correspondent Alex Forrest reports:
A disabled woman and her partner have written to a minister urging a rethink on plans to cut benefits for tenants deemed to have spare rooms
The benefit cut for social housing tenants will put 'unbearable' pressure on families with a disabled child.
Bedrooms in some foster homes will be classified as vacant, but the government insists funding for foster carers will be protected.