COUNCIL officials are to visit about 800 York tenants to offer support as they face up to the impact of the Government’s new “bedroom tax.”
Tenants will have a chance to discuss their options under the change, which involves cuts in housing benefit for tenants considered to have more bedrooms than they need.
Officials will examine the effects of benefit changes and, where applicable, explain discretionary housing payments and the circumstances where it may be payable to eligible foster carers and households in a disabled adapted property.
Where people indicate that they would like to downsize, they are shown the mechanisms to do so.
Coun Tracey Simpson-Laing said 1,276 council and housing association tenants in York were likely to lose a combined total of £927,356 a year in housing benefit.
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