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Speed dating for mutual exchanges
The lack of affordable homes and its impact on the mobility of social housing tenants remains a major concern for the sector. Now, with the welfare benefit…
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Vulnerable People at the salvation Army are terrified of welfare reform
Front line workers at the Salvation Army have attacked the government over its welfare reforms, saying vulnerable people are ‘absolutely terrified’ by some proposed…
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Judge finds bedroom tax is a breach of human rights for disabled person
Applying the bedroom tax to a couple who cannot share a room because of one partner’s disability is a breach of their human rights,…
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Challenges on benefit caps reach the high court
Three children and their mothers will challenge the government’s ‘irrational and discriminatory’ benefit caps in the High Court today. The lone parent families are…
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Real Life reforms – the impact of Welfare Reform (Report 1)
Nearly two thirds of households in Real Life Reform’s study on the impact of the government’s welfare reforms have less than £10 per week to live…
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51% of tenants unable to pay their rent – April to June 2013
A survey of 51 English housing associations by the National Housing Federation reveals 51 per cent of tenants affected were not able to pay…
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More than 50,00 council tenants at risk of eviction over bedroom tax
False Economy submitted freedom of information requests to local authorities across the UK and 114 provided figures of arrears since April which show the…
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Proposal – Money for landlords to advise tenants on Universal Credit
Social landlords must be funded to provide advice to tenants if universal credit is going to succeed, the co-chair of the work and pensions…
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Plan for a tougher stance on those who cheat on benefits
Kier Starmer QC said a ‘tough stance’ was needed on benefit fraud, which costs taxpayers £1.9bn each year. Individuals suspected of benefit fraud can…
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United Nations expresses concern about impact of welfare reform
United Nations housing ‘Rapporteur’ Raquel Rolnik, has ‘expressed serious concern‘ about a deterioration in the enjoyment of the right to adequate housing across the United…
