Social Housing Benefit Cap Deferred For A Year

‘The government has backed down over plans to cap housing benefit payments on social rented properties, a move that campaigners had warned would make thousands of vulnerable tenants homeless.

The 11th-hour change of heart was announced in a ministerial statement just a month before the changes, originally unveiled by the chancellor George Osborne in the autumn statement in November, were due to come in to effect.

The government said it was delaying the implementation of the policy for a year while it carried out a full review of the impact of the cap on tenants in supported housing.’

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