Impact of the Changes to Housing Benefit

In its first Budget, the Coalition Government made a number of announcements on changes to Housing Benefit and Local Housing Allowance. The Work and Pensions Committee has decided to hold an inquiry into those changes. Written evidence is invited from interested organisations. The focus of the inquiry will be the implications of the announced changes for:
• Incentives to work and access to low paid work
• Levels of rent, including regional variations
• Shortfalls in rent
• Levels of evictions and the impact on homelessness services
• Landlord confidence
• Community cohesion
• Disabled people, carers and specialist housing
• Older people, large families and overcrowding
Written evidence in connection with the inquiry should be sent to the Committee before 6 September 2010. These should be sent, as an MS Word document, of no more than eight pages (including an executive summary), by e-mail to: workpencom@parliament.uk with a single hard copy sent to Committee Address: Work and Pensions Committee, 7 Millbank, London, SW1P 3JA