Thread: Torys to cut housing benefit of young
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Old 31-01-2015, 18:32   #86
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Re: Torys to cut housing benefit of young
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Originally Posted by Mr Angry View Post
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.
The point your missing is that young girls are already doing that because despite the right to housing that current 18-21 yr olds have it is very rare that they make it to the top of the housing list and get accomodation because of the priorities already set by the LA's ,a sudden increase in childbirth is unlikely because those that would do it are already doing it.As i said this policy is not just about saving money it is as much about perception
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