SIR – It’s a pleasure to correct the errors of Mr John Hall (T&A, April 4) on the subject of the ‘bedroom tax that is not a tax’.
Mr Hall then presumes “that most service personnel are not on benefits and so cannot be ‘taxed’ by having their benefits cut!”. While this is true, I suspect some might be pretty young, still live at home and need to return there to stay when on leave, and it is quite possible that their parents might well be in social housing.
Mr Hall questions why I was pushing this cheeky line. The answer is simple, to help shame the Government in to making service personnel exempt, which they finally agreed to do. Had the Government not added this exemption, then there could well have been no room for young warriors when they returned to their family home.
Jason Smith, UKIP Bradford chairman, Woodlands Avenue, Queensbury
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