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'No right of appeal' bedroom tax victim celebrates victory
Judge exempts her from the cut, ruling: 'It looks like a study, then it probably is a study.'
A bedroom tax victim told by a Welsh council she had no right to appeal was celebrating yesterday after a judge freed her from the Tory benefit cut.
Caerphilly Council tenant Katherine Jenkins said she was told that she had no grounds to appeal after being stripped of £14 per week when the bedroom tax was introduced last April. But she surprised officials on Tuesday by winning an exemption at a tribunal.
“Initially, during a home visit, I was told by a Caerphilly Council representative that I had no right to appeal my decision,” she said.
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