Housing and anti-poverty campaigners will gather outside the Senedd on 22 November to protest ‘the bedroom tax’.
Cardiff Against The Bedroom Tax will protest as they believe the Welsh government is not doing enough to repeal the tax.
Cardiff Against Bedroom Tax did a similar demonstration on 26 October. Photo courtesy of Adam Johannes.
The policy, formally known as the Welfare Reform Act 2012, financially penalises those in social housing for having empty bedrooms. If tenants cannot pay they are forced to find smaller homes.
Spokesperson Adam Johannes says, “Many people the government says should move house have lived in their homes for 20 or 30 years, often bringing up families.”
Many people affected are now finding themselves in debt for the first time. Photo courtesy of Adam Johannes.
He says hundreds of the 4,000 Cardiff residents being hit by the tax are falling into debt despite never having been in arrears before.
“Though a minority have chosen to move, most people are staying put and paying and falling ever deeper into debt.”