Disabled families have lost a court challenge to social housing benefit cuts for residents with spare bedrooms in England, Wales and Scotland. The High Court ruled the policy, dubbed the "bedroom tax" by critics, did not unlawfully discriminate against disabled people. Ten families sought a judicial review of the change, introduced in April. One claimant described the ruling as an "absolute travesty of justice", and said they would appeal against it. Charlotte Carmichael, who has spina bifida and sleeps in a hospital bed which, she argues, her husband and full-time carer cannot share, told the BBC that she felt obliged to pursue the case.'Pleased' Jayson, her husband, added: "This is our way of life we're defending. We'll keep appealing and take it all the way we can." The families, which include disabled adults or children, had challenged the changes during a three-day hearing in May; their lawyers argued the benefit cuts hit disabled people disproportionately hard and were therefore discriminatory. Some argued that the additional bedrooms were needed for medical equipment or, in the case of some of the children, because behavioural problems made it impossible to share a room. ....Read more here