Thread: Oooh, look. Half a million more people claiming housing benefit under coalition.
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Old 18-03-2015, 17:01   #74
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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.
You keep banging on about rent inflation but do you realise that private sector rents only went up by 1% in England last year,1.4% in Scotland and only 0.2 in Wales .Rent inflation isn't really a problem for most renters ,low wage levels are

http://www.theguardian.com/money/201...ents-rise-year
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