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Welfare Bill: Commons to vote on spare room penalty
Ministers will again seek to overturn peers' calls for changes to the controversial Welfare Reform Bill, when it returns to the Commons later. The bill is "ping ponging" between the two Houses of Parliament, after peers inflicted a series of defeats on the plans for England, Scotland and Wales. Most of the defeats were overturned but one area of disagreement remains. Peers still want to limit cuts to payments to social housing tenants in homes deemed bigger than their needs. The government wants its new Universal Credit - which would be introduced by the bill from 2013 - to include an "under-occupancy" penalty for council and housing association tenants, who are considered to have more rooms than they need. Currently they are allowed to have one spare bedroom....Read more here--: BBC News - Welfare Bill: Commons to vote on spare room penaltyTags: None
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