Housing Benefit – Parliamentary Written Answer

Jessica Morden: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many of the housing benefit claimants who will be affected by the restrictions on under-occupied social housing are in work in the UK

Steve Webb: We estimate that from April 2013 140,000 housing benefit claimants in the UK will be affected by the under-occupancy change in the social rented sector, where either the claimant or their partner are in work.