Cooper Pledges Housing Benefit Shake-Up 'To Make System Fairer'

Benefit rules which left the taxpayer footing the £1,600 a week rent for a former asylum seeker and her family to live in a luxury flat are to be changed, the Government has announced. And as part of a shake-up, Work and Pensions Secretary Yvette Cooper will also reveal she has abandoned reforms that critics said would cost thousands of poor families £15 a week. Read all the details on the 24dash website.