Thread: Oooh, look. Half a million more people claiming housing benefit under coalition.
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Old 18-03-2015, 15:12   #73
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Re: Oooh, look. Half a million more people claiming housing benefit under coalition.
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Originally Posted by RichardCoulter View Post
You're right and this is one of the reasons why 25% of private tenants are now in receipt of Housing Benefit. At one time many of these people wouldn't have needed or qualified for assistance.

HB restrictions coupled with rent inflation does affect working people and unemployed people alike.
How many more times. Eligibility for HB DOES NOT DEPEND on rent levels. Rents could could go up ten fold overnight and NO MORE people would be eligible.

The rate of increase in HB costs and number of employed claimants was pretty much the SAME before 2010 as after. Indeed the LABOUR government admitted in 2009 that a sharp rise in HB costs in 2008 was due to THEIR policies.
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