Discretion needed over Bedroom Tax

I live in a house that over the past few years has been adapted as was the mandate of the ocial services "to adapt your home to enable you to stay in it" and have had many adaptatiosn carried out, including access ramps, a stair lift, adapted toilet and wash room.

I would love to go back to work, it was not my decision to stop -- that was made for me. I agree that people should work if they can, but when a person is unable and not allowed due to health and safety some discretion has to be made.

The Government seems to have had an agenda of hardening the public's view on benefit and strengthening the stigma attached to anyone claiming it.

I worked for 25 years with a broken back to provide for my family, fractured vertebra and a skeleton now riddled with both osteo and rheumatoid arthritis and, having had half my insides removed and recovering from cancer, I now have the added stress of not being able to afford to live in the house the council adapted for me.

I'm not a drug addict or a alcoholic and I still pay my taxes. Yes, have they forgotten that even on disability benefit we have to pay tax on it as it is classed as a taxable income. I am not a scrounger I always paid my taxes and still do.

Mr David Badkin, Rookery Road, Swinton.