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40,000 tenants to lose housing benefit entitlement.
06/07/2012 
lrs_keeperIn an updated impact assessment regarding welfare reform (Universal Credit) the government has doubled its estimate of the number of claimants who will lose any entitlement to housing benefit; as a direct result of its under-occupation penalty AKA ‘bedroom tax’. The Government intends to use powers contained in the Welfare Reform Act 2012 to provide [...]
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1 CommentUniversal Credit Explained in full.
Universal Credit will go live in the Greater Manchester and Cheshire region six months before the national roll-out. The Pathfinder will take place in Tameside, Oldham, Wigan and Warrington from April 2013 before Universal Credit is rolled out across the country in October 2013. Up to 1,500 new claimants are expected to begin receiving Universal [...]
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