Starmer the pensioner harmer....

You can rant roar swear do backward summersaults trying to kiss your own arse, there is no such thing as " Bedroom Tax,  it was a reduction of about £10 from those who claimed "Housing Benefit " funded from Taxation a comment from the media from last year 2023 .

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By Talia Shadwell, ITV News content producer



It has been a decade since the so-called 'bedroom tax' was introduced, to widespread controversy.



But ten years on, there appears to have been little appetite to find out whether the under-occupancy penalty actually worked.



Despite a growing housing crisis shaping up to be a key election battleground, neither the Conservative or Labour Parties would commit to any plans to review or abolish the bedroom tax, when asked by ITV News.



The policy, officially known as the 'removal of the spare room subsidy,' is perhaps better known by its nickname, the 'bedroom tax'.



The government says the policy, which took effect a decade ago, encourages people to move out of socially rented homes that are too big for them to make spaces for larger families.



Figures show despite the disincentive, hundreds of thousands of social housing households still pay today, and critics told us they are troubled by the lack of interest in reviewing the policy given the pressure of the cost of living crisis.



The government has confirmed it has no plans to review or abolish the policy, which was conceived at the height of the austerity era of welfare reforms.



It confirmed no official research into assessing the financial impact or success of the policy had been carried out in the last eight years, and ignored our query on whether any more research into the policy's impact on people's lives was planned.



Four times, ITV News asked Labour whether it stands by its past public commitments to abolish the bedroom tax if the party took power.



And four times, Sir Keir Starmer's party didn't respond, on a policy its MPs had in the past labelled "cruel."



But ten years after the bedroom tax was introduced, the national social housing stock continues to shrink. "