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Originally Posted by martyh
Not the same at all .Many of the welfare changes introduced have been as much about changing peoples perception of what the welfare system is for as much as saving money ,this just another example
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It is exactly the same.
We're not talking about
"Many of the welfare changes" we are talking about this supposed proposal to withdraw Housing Benefit support for 18-21 year olds who are single, unemployed (and without children).
You yourself, on the matter of people currently having children in order to afford themselves housing Benefit funded accomodation, have acknowledged
"that is already happening and has been happening for some years because we have been to free with housing benefit .".
Allegedly intending to introduce a policy whereby people within a certain age grouping will be denied Housing benefit if they do not have children (that being mooted as an "exemption") changes nothing.
People in that age grouping threatened with a withdrawl or refusal (I've read somewhere that this proposal is not retrospective in nature) of Housing Benefit will simply seek to meet the qualifying "exemption" criteria.