'Bedroom tax saves £1m a day'

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File photo dated 11/01/14 of houses as reforms to cut housing benefit from council tenants with spare rooms - branded a bedroom tax by critics - have saved taxpayers ?1 million a day since they were imposed a year ago, according to the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP). PRESS ASSOCIATION Photo. Issue date: Friday March 28, 2014. On the first anniversary of the controversial cutback, which is described by ministers as the removal of a

%VIRTUAL-SkimlinksPromo%Reforms to cut housing benefit from council tenants with spare rooms - branded a bedroom tax by critics - have saved taxpayers £1 million a day since they were imposed a year ago, according to the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP).

On the first anniversary of the controversial cutback, which is described by ministers as the removal of a "spare room subsidy", Iain Duncan Smith's department released figures showing that almost half a million households were having cash deducted from their benefits.

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