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Bedroom tax

September 2023

  • Shelley Nicholson and her daughter Ash, 16, at their home near Carlisle in Cumbria.

    More than 1 million children in UK sleep on floor or share bed, study finds

    Barnardo’s says the rise in ‘bed poverty’ reflects growing levels of destitution following soaring food or gas bills

July 2023

  • Rachel Reeves

    Rachel Reeves: Labour may be unable to scrap bedroom tax and child benefit cap

    Shadow chancellor says ‘dire economic inheritance’ would prevent party from reversing Tory welfare policies

March 2023

  • ‘It’s a lot of caring for £69 a week’ … Mike in his kitchen.

    Broke and disabled in Tory Britain: the reality of life on one meal a day

    Welfare reforms have left many disabled people effectively destitute. For them, this isn’t a cost-of-living crisis – it’s a cost-of-staying-alive crisis

November 2022

  • Illustration by Eleanor Bannister

    The heat or eat diaries
    I live in an affluent area, but I have a secret I can’t tell my neighbours: I don’t know how I’ll survive this winter

    Marin
    Rishi Sunak is super rich – how can he relate to anyone who can’t afford fruit for their kids, £9.35 for a prescription, or a tank of petrol to get to work

July 2022

  • Illustration: Eleanor Bannister for the Guardian.

    The heat or eat diaries
    I’ve cared for my autistic children all my life. How am I supposed to find a job in my 40s?

    Sophie
    I have a choice: take on a bit of part-time work to boost my self-worth but risk losing my benefits, or stay exactly as I am and lose a bit of dignity, says Sophie

May 2021

  • David Davis Stella Creasy Composite

    Cross-party MPs aim to force government to rectify rights breaches

    Stella Creasy and David Davis leading attempt to protect at-risk women and extend bereavement benefits to unmarried parents

November 2019

  • Lady Hale

    UK government loses supreme court fight over bedroom tax

  • A worker holds a food parcel

    Welfare changes drive rising poverty and food bank use, study finds

October 2019

  • Frances Ryan

    Hardworking Britain
    The bedroom tax is still ruining lives. Its victims need to know they matter

    Frances Ryan
    Voters need reminding that the cruelties of ‘welfare reform’ have not gone away, says Guardian columnist Frances Ryan

September 2018

  • Jo Swinson speaking at the Lib Dem conference in Brighton

    Lib Dems must 'own failures' of coalition, says Jo Swinson

    Deputy leader tells party it should have done more to stop policies such as bedroom tax

August 2018

  • Housing association homes

    Extending the housing crisis to associations is not the answer

    Letters: Readers respond to the latest news on the housing crisis, including right to buy for housing association tenants and the bedroom tax’s impact on single people

June 2018

  • Frances Ryan

    In plain view
    Why won’t ministers come clean about the impact of cuts on disabled people?

    Frances Ryan
    Being hit by the bedroom tax is bad enough, but losing your sickness benefits too is even harder

October 2017

  • An NHS hospital ward

    Spare rooms plan can’t solve NHS overcrowding

    Letters: Proposals that could see the NHS renting rooms in private houses for patients recuperating after surgery are criticised by Helen Tucker, Mannie Sher, Penelope Maclachlan and others. But Frances Hollis sees the idea as a solution to several pressing problems

June 2017

  • People bring clothing and bedding to Westway sports centre in London, an emergency accommodation centre for people made homeless by the Grenfell Tower fire

    Grenfell tenants 'not exempt from bedroom tax or benefit cap'

    Ministers say residents hit by welfare reforms should get discretionary payments to protect them from benefit shortfalls

May 2017

  • Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn and local parliamentary candidate Mohammad Yasin during a campaign visit to Bedford Guild House on Friday

    Plenty of reasons for poor people to vote Labour

    Letters: Labour’s manifesto should appeal to those on benefits, writes Sheila Spencer; while activists Roy and Jane Darke describe knocking on doors in Oxford

January 2017

  • Dawn Foster

    Foster on Friday
    Deadlock in Stormont could spell turmoil for social housing tenants

    Dawn Foster
    The resignation of Martin McGuinness jeopardises Northern Ireland’s plans to delay the bedroom tax – introducing it now wouldn’t just be cruel, but dangerous

December 2016

  • Frances Ryan

    Hardworking Britain
    Fighting back is possible. At the end of a bleak year, here are my winners

    Frances Ryan
  • Mary, a rough sleeper in Bimingham

    Rough sleeping on rise in Birmingham after cuts to services for homeless

November 2016

  • Katie and Daniel from the film I, Daniel Blake.

    Are you Daniel Blake? Here’s a guide to using our nightmarish benefits system

    Matthew Ahluwalia
  • Dawn Foster

    Foster on Friday
    The fight goes on to free more families from the bedroom tax nightmare

    Dawn Foster
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