The Scottish Authorities has spent £350 million to mitigate the price of the "merciless" Tory-imposed bed room tax during the last 5 years.
The figures had been revealed in a written reply to SNP MSP Elena Whitham, who branded it "the embodiment of the price of residing with Westminster".
The bed room tax was launched in 2013 by the then Tory-Lib Dem coalition authorities at Westminster.
It means a claimant will obtain much less in housing profit or housing prices by way of Common Credit score if they're residing in a property with a number of spare bedrooms.
Tenants in social housing might have their advantages decreased by 14 per cent if they've a spare bed room or 25 per cent if they've two or extra.
However following a marketing campaign by the File, the Scottish Authorities agreed to mitigate the prices of the coverage in Scotland.
Opposition events have lengthy referred to as for the UK Authorities to scrap the bed room tax however the Tories proceed to help it.
Within the written reply, social justice secretary Shona Robison stated: "Scotland has budgeted £429 million in complete for Discretionary Housing Funds since DHPs had been devolved in 2017 to the 2022-23 monetary 12 months.
"That is damaged down into £349 million for mitigation of the bed room tax and £80.4 million for mitigating the influence of different welfare reforms."
Elena Whitham, convener of Holyrood's social safety committee, stated: "The bed room tax is likely one of the many callous insurance policies launched by the Tories throughout their 12 years in energy at Westminster.
"It's the embodiment of the price of residing with Westminster.
"The Scottish Authorities has invested near half a billion kilos to mitigate the bed room tax and supply different housing monetary help to keep up folks of their tenancies.
"That's cash that could possibly be spent pulling folks out of poverty and as a substitute we're having to make use of it to plug the cuts of the Tories."
The SNP MSP added: "Scotland can accomplish that far more than simply clear up the mess of the Tories – one they're making even worse while ignoring the UK price of residing disaster.
"That's the reason we'd like the total vary of powers that independence would carry to construct a fairer, extra equal Scotland."
The UK Authorities insisted the elimination of "the spare room subsidy" had been an necessary software to assist to handle housing help expenditure and allow mobility throughout the social rented sector.
A spokesman for the DWP stated: “We recognise the pressures on the price of residing and we're doing what we are able to to assist, together with spending £22 billion throughout the following monetary 12 months to help folks in Scotland and throughout the UK.
"This contains placing a median of £1,000 extra per 12 months into the pockets of working households through adjustments to Common Credit score, reducing gasoline responsibility and serving to households with their power payments by way of our £9.1 billion Power Payments Rebate.
"Throughout the pandemic we elevated Native Housing Allowance considerably and past inflation, benefitting over a million households by a median of over £600 over the 12 months.
"We’re sustaining that increase, retaining help for personal renters above pre-pandemic ranges."
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