Charities have slammed a government fund intended to
mitigate the worst effects of the Local Housing Allowance freeze, after it
confirmed just £13.3m will be available next year. Recent research by Shelter
revealed one in four families in a two-bedroom home must find an extra £100 a
month or more to make up the shortfall in their rent due to the LHA rate
freeze. Marc Francis, policy and campaigns director at anti-poverty charity
Z2K, said: “In those parts of the country experiencing the sharpest rent rises,
there is little or no benefit, leaving disabled and unemployed private tenants
with an increasing shortfall between the rent they owe and the housing benefit
they receive.” Read more on Inside Housing.
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