{"id":122052,"date":"2014-06-01T05:24:21","date_gmt":"2014-06-01T05:24:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/?p=122052"},"modified":"2014-06-01T06:01:21","modified_gmt":"2014-06-01T06:01:21","slug":"money-expert-blasts-bedroom-tax","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/politics\/money-expert-blasts-bedroom-tax\/","title":{"rendered":"Money expert blasts Bedroom Tax"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"color: #000000;\">Money expert Martin Lewis is calling on David Cameron to admit he got it wrong\u00a0<a style=\"font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; color: #141414;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mirror.co.uk\/all-about\/bedroom%20tax\">on the hated Bedroom Tax<\/a>\u00a0\u2014 and finally scrap it.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;\">The\u00a0<a style=\"font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; color: #141414;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mirror.co.uk\/all-about\/martin%20lewis\">cash wizard<\/a>\u00a0told the Sunday People our Prime Minister should recognise the Tory policy is brutal because it \u00adthreatens to take away support from 660,000 people, two thirds of them disabled.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;\">Martin, the creator of website MoneySavingExpert.com, said: \u201cThe Government should say, \u2018We tried that. It was a good idea but it hasn\u2019t worked. We\u2019ll stop.\u2019<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;\">\u201cBut they can\u2019t do that because they will be seen as a failure.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;\">&#8220;We live in a country where politicians doing a U-turn is seen as a bad thing. We are all worse off for it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;\">The Sunday People has been \u00adcampaigning for a fair deal for victims of the Bedroom Tax since it was \u00adintroduced last summer.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;\">The hated charge \u2014 officially called the under-occupancy rule \u2014 means as many as 660,000 people of a working age in social housing who have a spare bedroom will have their \u00adhousing \u00adbenefit cut by \u00a340 to \u00a380 a month.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;\">Martin, 42, \u00adbelieves the \u00adpolicy \u00adunfairly targets the vulnerable.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mirror.co.uk\/news\/uk-news\/money-expert-martin-lewis-blasts-3631498?\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Money expert Martin Lewis is calling on David Cameron to admit he got it wrong\u00a0on the hated Bedroom Tax\u00a0\u2014 and finally scrap it. The\u00a0cash wizard\u00a0told the Sunday People our Prime Minister should recognise the Tory policy is brutal because it \u00adthreatens to take away support from 660,000 people, two thirds of them disabled. Martin, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[487,52,17,1615],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-122052","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-breaking-news","7":"category-money","8":"category-politics","9":"category-uk-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122052","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122052"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122052\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}