Housing benefits cut for low-wage renters quietly slipped out in spending review
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mirror.co.ukHousing benefits will be quietly cut by hundreds of millions of pounds a year under a move slipped out in the small print of the spending review.
The amount low-wage renters can get to help with housing costs will be whittled away, despite being raised months ago due to coronavirus.
Currently, under a formula called the Local Housing Allowance, private renters should be able to afford the cheapest 30% of properties in their area.
That rate is a new level that was introduced at the start of the pandemic. But today’s spending review revealed that allocation is being frozen in cash terms from now on.
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