Citizens Advice campaign against shared room rent age limits increase

With proposed cuts of over £2 billion to housing benefit over the next few years, the majority of claimants will find themselves worse off. As housing benefit rates drop further away from actual rents, tenants will have to make up more of the shortfall themselves or find cheaper accommodation elsewhere. This will lead to an increase in rent arrears, debt and homelessness with some of the most vulnerable people being hit the hardest.

Some of these cuts become law in April, but others are still in the pipeline. Citizens Advice say that they welcome the Government’s decision to withdraw the proposal to cut unemployed people’s housing benefit by 10 per cent if they have not found work after a year. They are campaigning hard to get the Government to withdraw the proposal which will affect single people under 35.

They are asking the Government to reconsider and withdraw the proposal that, from April 2012, the shared room rent age limit will be increased from 25 to 35

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