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Bedroom tax appeal

Gazzanoo · 2013-04-25 10:18:41

Hi, i am living with my disabled wife in a council flat with a small room directly off the lounge which has been classified as a bedroom, i questioned the size 54 sq ft and location directly off lounge but to no avail but being an ex carpenter i considered the construction of the partition. I got in touch with local…

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Morglin Posts: 15,922 Forumite

7 February 2014 at 1:34PM

That wouldn't be the remit of the DM.

Individual councils would have a policy on what size makes a bedroom or not. I would imagine their own surveyors make the recommendations.

All HB officers and DM's do is to follow rules from above.

Lin

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