£250 million cut to Housing Benefit: claimants plunged deeper into poverty
Post Categories: DWP • uk government
Tags: Housing Allowance, Housing Benefit, Housing Benefit Amendment, Housing Benefit Amendment (no 2) Regulations 2009, Local Housing Allowance
People are increasingly loosing jobs, forced to sign on to receive Jobseekers Allowance to scrape by, hundreds of people are now applying for the same jobs and if that wasn’t bad enough, in a bid to save £234 million a year, the Government has decided to pull the £15 per week excess from Local Housing Allowance which is to affect over 300,000 claimants including families.
New Deal Scandal believes that with the surge in new claims, that £234 million a year figure could rise to £250 million within a few months after coming in to effect next year.
At this time of widespread need, the public should be able to rely on the Government giving them extra support – after all collectively we have been paying taxes and their wages for the last few decades.
It is not just Labour: how are the Conservatives going to cut taxes and increase public spending but no oppose cuts such as this one?
Of course, if we take action now we can prevent this becoming law!
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