Dear Editor
This variation in cutting housing benefit will be inflicted on thousands of people from April this year. In East Lothian alone 788 households will be affected when this ‘bedroom tax’ housing benefit cut of £7.50 to £13.50 a week comes in.
If you are then unable to afford the new rent, the options will be trying to find cheaper, smaller accommodation (where?), taking a lodger or eviction. Can you imagine the devastating effect this will have on people’s lives?
What sort of people are they that thought up this vicious scheme? Are they unaware of the havoc caused? If so, it shows how out of touch they are with reality. If they are aware, then it shows they must be the most hard, callous people, devoid of normal human feelings – yet they appear on television and in newspapers saying how much they care. What humbugs!
A Delahoy, Silverknowes Gardens
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