Why penalise claimants who have no alternative but to live in accommodation with a spare bedroom?
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Mr Smith said it was "crazy" that the room was considered a spare bedroom.
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" "Well, just now we run Biggerbone out of a spare bedroom in my house.
Social housing tenants of working age will have their benefits reduced if they have a spare bedroom.
It was launched in a spare bedroom in Dallas, Texas, in 1995 by two frustrated Hoosier fans.
Sometimes the entrepreneurial spark lights a garage, a spare bedroom, a university media lab or shared office space.
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Under government plans, social housing tenants who have a spare bedroom could have housing benefit cut from 1 April.
The government wants people to either move to smaller homes if they have a spare bedroom or their benefits will be reduced.
Darrin Gamble, from the Bromford Group, said customers with disabilities who make use of a spare bedroom in their home would be "unfairly" affected.
Mr Salmond said all SNP-led councils would halt the threat of evictions for those whose housing benefits are reduced if they have a spare bedroom.
Tenants in social housing will have their benefit reduced by 14% if they have a spare bedroom or 25% if they have two or more extra rooms.
From the moment he set up his political consultancy in a spare bedroom in 1985, Peter Mandelson (later Tony Blair's spin doctor) encouraged him, but few others did.
The controversial reforms include changes to housing benefit that will result in council and housing association tenants having their benefit cut if they are deemed to have a spare bedroom.
Some people may have the luxury of a spare bedroom or den to use as their home office, while others may have to build their own home office space.
The Discretionary Housing Payments fund, which critics have called a "bedroom tax", would see people having their benefits reduced if they are deemed to have a spare bedroom in their council or housing association home.
The Liberal Democrat minister was asked on BBC Radio 4's Today programme about the example of a divorced father who has a spare bedroom for his visiting children, but will lose out under the new arrangements.
Julian was a thin man of sixty-three, balding, a typewriter repairman who worked out of his spare bedroom and kept to himself.
Those deemed to have spare rooms will get less benefit - a change dubbed the "bedroom tax" by the UK government's political opponents.
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Labelled a "bedroom tax" by Labour, families deemed to have a spare room will have their housing benefit claims reduced from April.
He spent his nights in the spare bedroom of one of his business partners until he could afford a tiny apartment in nearby Long Beach with a fold-out Murphy bed.
The government wants to end what it calls the "spare room subsidy" for social tenants, but critics have dubbed the move a "bedroom tax".
Crossbench peer Lord Best agreed to withdraw his amendment limiting the government's plans for a so-called "bedroom tax", which cuts benefits to social housing tenants with spare rooms.
They would rather we call it a 'spare room allowance' and point to the widespread issue of under-occupation while so many people have no bedroom of their own.
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