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Stifled report reveals bed tax victims sacrificed essentials

A GOVERNMENT report showing that tenants have sacrificed household essentials to pay the hated bedroom tax was smuggled out yesterday under the cover of the Cabinet reshuffle.

Con-Dem spin doctors exploited the press frenzy to publish the damning verdict.

It revealed that 80 per cent of the 660,000 tenants hit by the housing benefit cut have scraped together the cash to keep the bailiffs at bay.

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