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Figures reveal local impact of 'bedroom tax'

There are calls for the so-called 'bedroom tax' to be scrapped... after research by the National Housing Federation found that around half the households affected are no longer able to pay their rent.

The organisation, which campaigns for affordable homes, has been analysing housing benefit statistics, and found that in Exeter alone more than six hundred households have lost money for supposedly under-occupying their homes.

In East Devon there are more than 400 and a further 300 in mid-Devon.

The data has been compiled from Government figures for current benefit claimants - and don't include working people whose small housing benefit entitlement has been wiped out by the tax.

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