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Bed tax victory mum 'asked by official to keep on paying'
The family have been squeezed for £13 a week since August through the bedroom tax

The mum of a disabled boy revealed yesterday that she was asked to keep paying the bedroom tax to "balance the books" of a housing association.

Sarah Davies of Bridgend in south Wales was handed a reprieve from the cruel Tory tax on Thursday.

She won the exemption with the help of activists who proved her son Ben, who suffers from cerebal palsy, needed his own room.

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