Arthur, I am sorry to hear about your son's predicament, but I must pick you up on one of your points...
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We should also pay our fair share of taxes. But you tell me is it fair that people who have to pay Bedroom tax for example, are 90% in the poor region.
And yet, millionaires and people with pots of money and have five /six bedroom mansions pay the same tax. Is that fare.
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The so-called "bedroom tax" is actually a reduction in Housing Benefit for over-occupation (for example, if there are two people, say mother and son, living in a three-bedroomed accommodation, they will have their Housing Benefit reduced).
I don't know many people with pots of money living in five/six bedroomed houses who get Housing Benefit - I am willing to be proven wrong, though....
btw, I live in a four bedroomed home, and was paying £950 per month on a mortgage and another £160 per month in Council Tax, and received no reduction, so how I was paying the same Bedroom Tax as someone living in Council/Social Housing confuses me...