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Bedroom tax battle continues

WOMEN with disabilities will gather at the Supreme Court today in solidarity with a victim of domestic violence whose panic room is being targeted by the hated Tory bedroom tax.

On the three-day hearing’s last day, seven Supreme Court justices will hear the case of single mother “A,” a survivor of rape and domestic violence.

The government is appealing against her court victory last month, when appeal judges agreed that she had “suffered discrimination” and that changes to her housing benefit were in breach of Article 14 of the European Convention on Human Rights.

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