Britain’s largest unions body the Trades Union Congress (TUC) figures suggest that one in every three residents at a public funded house can no longer afford to pay for their accommodation.
Tenants of council houses in north and central England as well as east Scotland were the worst affected.
According to the TUC-backed False Economy campaign, the northern town of Barrow had 75 percent of households tipping into rent arrears. East Scotland’s town of Clackmannanshire also had 67 percent of households falling into arrears, while towns in central England of Tamworth, South Kesteven and Rotherham had between 50 and 52 percent.
The new housing benefit reform, the so called “bedroom tax”, caps the housing support of tenants. Tenants of working age who receive housing support will lose 14 percent of their benefits if they have one spare room, and 25 percent if they have more than one.
Earlier in August, thousands of Britons took part in a “mass sleep out” in towns and cities across the UK to show their anger against the government’s changes to the country’s welfare system.
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