Apr 26, 2015
Why Housing Benefit Costs Are So High.
Figures from the Office of National Statistics show that while the cost of housing benefit has jumped four-fold in real terms in the thirty years between 1983 and 2013, the actual number of housing benefit claimants has hardly changed. Sly references by government ministers to Housing Benefits claims in excess of £50,000 a year gloss over two facts:
Only 1 in 30,000 people have this kind of…
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