For Immediate release
Scrap the Bedroom Tax Defend Council Tax Benefit Nottingham:
Cathy Meadows 07913476905
Local campaign group calls meeting with Nottingham City Council over bedroom tax pre-court protocol failures.
Nottingham and Nottinghamshire Scrap the Bedroom Tax Defend Council Tax Benefits campaign have requested a meeting with Nottingham City Council as a matter of urgency amid concerns that the Council are failing to follow the pre-court protocol for tenants hit with the bedroom tax. They are concerned that the council is not engaging with tenants who are in bedroom tax arrears, not giving them the information they need, and not trying to make arrangements with them before taking them to court. In the most recent example a tenant who is less than four weeks in arrears and whose arrears have been decreasing since January, has received a court summons for possession of their home from the council.
This is the second time the campaign group has requested in writing, a meeting with councillors, as well as previously making a verbal request.
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[1] The council are applying to the court for Possession Orders, which give them permission to evict residents who can’t keep up with Bedroom Tax and/or Bedroom Tax arrears payments. Social housing landlords must follow a pre-court protocol. Tenants have the opportunity to put their case at the court hearing but do not receive legal aid to fund a solicitor to represent them in court.
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