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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.
While claiming to target fraud, Labour’s snooping Bill strips benefit recipients of privacy rights and presumption of innocence, writes CLAUDIA WEBBE, warning that algorithms with up to 25 per cent error rates could wrongfully investigate and harass millions of vulnerable people
