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A grieving mum is at her wits' end after she was forced to pay the Bedroom Tax - on the room where her disabled son lived until his premature death.

Julie Glover lost her husband Roy, 67, and cerebral palsy-stricken son David within just 10 months of each other in 2012 and has struggled to cope.

Now the government is clawing back an extra £12 a week via the hated tax - already described as unfair by two Tory MPs - and it's left Julie desperate to move house.

But she says the authorities won't give her a new home because her surviving son - wheelchair-bound Royston, 35 - has cerebral palsy too and it'll be too expensive to adapt.

"It’s me and my eldest son left in a three-bedroomed house," full-time- carer Julie told WalesOnline.

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"My point to them, which we can’t get a decent answer to, is why won’t you move us?

"And if you don’t want to why are you still charging us?

"We have been here for 30 years. It is our family home, we moved here in 1986.

"It is only because my son died in 2012 that we have a spare room.

"The bedroom tax came about in 2013 so for the past two years I have been paying them – and I want my money back."

Julie, 55, from Newport, South Wales, said she asked to downsize but was told she could not be moved because it’s too expensive to adapt another place.

All the doors in her home have been widened and the toilet is downstairs, a renovation she fears would cost hundreds of thousands of pounds elsewhere.

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"They would have to put all my son’s facilities in there," she said. "My son uses a ceiling hoist and a lift to get him upstairs to bed.

"So they have said we cannot move... But they are still charging us £12 a week. Which does not sound like a lot but it is a lot for me because we are on benefits.

"We are not the only ones in this situation. The whole thing is so unfair to people who are caring for disabled people.

"The spare room we have got has 10 boxes of incontinence pads in, and Royston’s clothes are in there, because the room he sleeps in is taken up with the bed and the lift he goes up in."

It’s also used to charge Royston’s electric wheelchair at night, she said.

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The mum-of-two and stepmum-of-four claimed Newport Council told her 'their hands are tied.'

She's now applying for a discretionary housing payment, an emergency fee to help people who can't pay their rent - on which millions have been spent under the Tories.

Two Tory MPs have already come

Sharon Wilkins, housing services head at Newport City Homes, said it was “a difficult time for Mrs Glover.”

“We’re keen to help where we can and are working with the family to fully understand the situation,” she said.

“When we have all the details, we are hopeful for a resolution that will involve as little disruption for the family as possible.”

A Newport council spokesman said: “Newport City Council is awaiting an application on behalf of Mrs Glover, a Newport City Homes tenant, for a discretionary housing payment and it will be dealt with as soon as possible after it is received.”