'Bedroom tax' arrears concerns
Two studies have found that council tenants paying the so-called bedroom tax have been pushed into rent arrears.
'Bedroom tax' debts are 'only going to get worse'
Shadow work and pensions secretary Liam Byrne has said that as the government's emergency fund runs out even more people will be pushed in to debt over the 'bedroom tax'.
Mr Byrne said: "It is very early days and that's why these figures are so shocking because the policy has only been in place five months one in three people are in debt.
"Now what's going to happen over the next few months is that the government's emergency fund is going run out, people's personal resources are going to run out and so this figure is only going to get worse."
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