'Bedroom Tax' survey
New survey reveals 30,000 people in the South West will pay the controversial so-called bedroom tax.
- Laura Makin-Isherwood
Protests against housing benefit changes
Campaigners have been demonstrating against new rules which will see housing benefit cut for council tenants deemed to have spare bedrooms.
Protests were staged in Bristol and Exeter in opposition to changes which the Government calls the spare room subsidy. Labour has dubbed it the bedroom tax.
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