Smoke? Have Satellite TV? No #BedroomTax Relief For You!
This is unbelievable. Or is it? Can those who claim benefits not have any pleasures, any pastimes? Disabled people do pay tax too, Scunthorpe Council. And they would love their tax to be used for bedroom tax relief.
SMOKERS and satellite TV customers in North Lincolnshire will get no grant assistance to help them pay the ‘bedroom tax’.
Following claims from Scunthorpe MP Nic Dakin that the ‘bedroom tax’ is causing people pain, council leader Liz Redfern has hit back over the issue.
In the House of Commons, Mr Dakin called on North Lincolnshire Council to use its Discretionary Housing
Payments to support those trapped in homes that the government has said are too big for them.
But Cllr Redfern says there will be no grant assistance for those who smoke or have satellite TV.
“This campaign shows the complete hypocrisy of the Labour Party.
“I didn’t hear Nic Dakin campaigning when the Labour Government added the same subsidy to residents in private rented accommodation.
“There is strong evidence to suggest that the spare room subsidy has stimulated a return to work amongst long term unemployed.
“Locally we have established a policy which supports residents with grant assistance, there is however an eligibility criteria which prevents residents who smoke and have satellite television from securing this assistance.
“I know that Nic Dakin would like this reversed, however many North Lincolnshire residents who work full time don’t have these luxuries and quite rightly they believe it is wrong to expect taxpayers to fund these life choices.”
Same Difference 