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Bedroom tax victims insulted by Creme Egg 'thank you' gesture
Bridgend housing association attempted to console hard-hit residents with sickly confectionery gift

Cash-strapped Welsh tenants hit by the bedroom tax have been offered a free Cadbury’s creme egg as a “thank you” gift for coughing up extra rent.

The Star can reveal that Bridgend housing association Valleys to Coast (V2C) offered the sickening Easter sweetener in a letter sent on Tuesday to residents of its 6,000 homes.

Head of neighbourhoods Nigel Draper thanked tenants for their “efforts to pay the shortfall” a year after the Tories slashed their housing benefit.

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