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DWP told to justify freezing housing benefit amid surging homelessness and skyrocketing rents
The government has been urged to lay out whether it considered the impact of freezing local housing allowance (LHA) on homelessness in a damning report from the Public Accounts Committee (PAC). MPs on ...
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Labour's housing benefit freeze will cost low-income renters hundreds of pounds a year
Private sector tenants in England face the following average losses unless their rent is cheap enough to come below the local housing allowance (LHA) rate for their area and property size: Tenants ...
Bedford Today on MSN8d
Housing benefit insufficient for nearly two-thirds of Wigan families with children
Housing benefit is insufficient for nearly two-thirds of households with children living in private rental accommodation in ...
Birmingham Mail22d
DWP update over scrapping Local Housing Allowance freeze
The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) is under pressure to lift its Housing Allowance freeze ... LHA rates to the 30th percentile of local rents would mean 75,000 fewer children in poverty ...