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http://www.islingtongazette.co.uk/news/islington_solicitors_hail_three_victories_in_battles_over_bedroom_tax_1_3453387

The room was disregarded as an “odd shape”?


What a complete (and expensive) administrative muddle this has all become….

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article in the Independent quoting University of Cambridge research that finds ‘only 19 per cent of households losing benefit under the bedroom tax could be considered to have more space than they needed’ -

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/rabbithutch-britain-growing-health-concerns-as-uk-sets-record-for-smallest-properties-in-europe-9544450.html

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A couple more FtT decisions on room size and shared care from the nearly legal website -

http://nearlylegal.co.uk/blog/2014/06/living-moving-relaxing/