The Department for Work and Pensions is unhappy about government plans to reform security of tenure and to cut housing benefit, a minister has revealed. Pensions minister Steve Webb, Liberal Democrat MP for Northavon, told a meeting on welfare reform at his party’s annual conference that scrapping lifetime tenancies for social tenants would not help people get back into work. He also criticised Treasury plans announced in June’s emergency Budget to dock housing benefit by 10 per cent for those who have been receiving jobseeker’s allowance for more than a year. He said: ‘[Removing security of tenure] would make the problem worse. I would be very concerned if they did that.’ Read more on Inside Housing.
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