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Zoe Bartel and her two children aged just seven and eight protesting against the upcoming taxes at the beginning of the financial year.
Locals gathered outside Ipswich Town Hall in solidarity despite the snow to protest the bedroom tax due to kick in at the beginning of the financial year.
The imposed tax by the government will see housing benefits cut by 25% for those seen to be “under-occupying” their council or housing association homes.
This leaves many questioning whether to stay in their accommodation and struggle more and more with mounting bills alongside the tax or for single mother with two children Zoe Bartel, to decide whether to move into shared housing.
“I moved here two years ago when my eldest was just six, now they’re asking me to pay 14% more on my housing benefit and 8% council tax which will total to £60 per month.”
“I also have the option to move but as a single mother with two children with a part time job, moving again is just not going to happen”
Some fifty protests are believed to be held all over the county today. Manchester was noted to have gathered an estimated 1200 protestors on the 16th of March”.
Many gathered to protest, not because the tax affected themselves directly, but affected those around them including family and friends.
A protestor in Ipswich told, “It’s disgusting, they’re taxing blindly with no regard to those who will be affected, many have more than one bedroom because their sick children have disabilities that require dialysis machines. How is this fair? ”
Zoe Bartel and her two children aged just seven and eight protesting against the upcoming taxes at the beginning of the financial year.
Locals gathered outside Ipswich Town Hall in solidarity despite the snow to protest the bedroom tax due to kick in at the beginning of the financial year.
The imposed tax by the government will see housing benefits cut by 25% for those seen to be “under-occupying” their council or housing association homes.
This leaves many questioning whether to stay in their accommodation and struggle more and more with mounting bills alongside the tax or for single mother with two children Zoe Bartel, to decide whether to move into shared housing.
“I moved here two years ago when my eldest was just six, now they’re asking me to pay 14% more on my housing benefit and 8% council tax which will total to £60 per month.”
“I also have the option to move but as a single mother with two children with a part time job, moving again is just not going to happen”
Some fifty protests are believed to be held all over the county today. Manchester was noted to have gathered an estimated 1200 protestors on the 16th of March”.
Many gathered to protest, not because the tax affected themselves directly, but affected those around them including family and friends.
A protestor in Ipswich told, “It’s disgusting, they’re taxing blindly with no regard to those who will be affected, many have more than one bedroom because their sick children have disabilities that require dialysis machines. How is this fair? ”