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.
Julian was a thin man of sixty-three, balding, a typewriter repairman who worked out of his spare bedroom and kept to himself.
So three hours at the minimum wage would pay the shortfall then he can keep the spare bedroom and have someone to stay.
Darrin Gamble, from the Bromford Group, said customers with disabilities who make use of a spare bedroom in their home would be "unfairly" affected.
Council tenants with one spare bedroom will lose 14% of their housing benefit, while those with two or more spare bedrooms will lose 25%.
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.
When police arrived at his house in St Fillan's Road, Dundee, they found the boy Connelly had abused on film lying in the spare bedroom.
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He is forever being asked to step into the spare bedroom, the bathroom, the kitchen, even the walk-in closet, because someone wants to show him something.
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.
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.
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.
Families living in council or housing association accommodation who are deemed to have one spare bedroom will now lose 14% of their housing benefit, while those with two or more spare bedrooms will lose 25%.
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.
In her spare time, she likes to dance and sing in her bedroom, meet up with friends and mess around on her computer.
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.
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.
The government wants to end what it calls the "spare room subsidy" for social tenants, but critics have dubbed the move a "bedroom tax".
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