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Social housing spare rooms a luxury
from the BBC -
‘Spare bedrooms for people in social housing are a luxury the country can no longer afford, a minister has said.
Tenants with spare rooms will lose £11 a week in housing benefit under changes going through Parliament.
Welfare Reform Minister Lord Freud told BBC Radio 4’s You and Yours the cuts were needed as the housing benefit bill was “out of control”.’
This is the percentage cut for social housing that’s already been announced.