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  • January 31, 2020
    Over two-thirds of council homelessness services pushed into the red

    Rising levels of homelessness and the increasing cost of using expensive bed and breakfast accommodation have plunged more than two-thirds of all council homelessness services in England into the red, according to new analysis by the Local Government Association

  • November 22, 2012
    Charities challenge under-25s benefit cut proposal

    Twelve charities have signed a joint letter to The Times newspaper, urging the Prime Minister to reconsider proposals to cut housing benefit for under-25s.

  • June 25, 2012
    Will axing housing benefit for under 25s cost votes?

    Housing benefit may be scrapped for numerous adults under 25, UK Prime Minister David Cameron informed the Mail on Sunday. Other welfare claimants too will be targeted in further harsh reforms. While the policy is clearly intended to win support from ‘middle England’, it may backfire as increasing numbers find themselves on the receiving end.

  • May 11, 2012
    Benefit cuts trigger 'epidemic of homelessness' in Bristol

    Bristol is facing an epidemic of homelessness fuelled by housing benefit cuts. That’s according to campaigners in the city who are planning a ‘Poverty Hearing’.