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Bedroom tax mess victims dragged to court again – at our expense – as IDS refuses to admit he was wrong

THE GOVERNMENT is set to blow taxpayers’ cash on a costly legal challenge to Wednesday’s landmark court ruling that the bedroom tax is discriminatory and illegal.

Court of Appeal judges found that the notorious policy “discriminated” against a domestic violence survivor and the family of a severely disabled teenager.

Labour raised an urgent question in Parliament yesterday morning to push for other social housing tenants with similar cases to be exempted immediately.

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