Data released by the Department for Work and Pensions
(DWP) reveals that councils spent £29.7m of DHP money assisting people affected
by the benefit cap in 2016/17, compared with £14.1m in 2015/16. From November
last year, the benefit cap was reduced from £26,000 to £23,000 in London and
£20,000 elsewhere. A survey by the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors
showed the lower benefit cap was pushing people out of the private rented sector
and a number of housing associations have said they are less likely to let to
people hit by the lower benefit cap. Read more on Inside Housing.
Fee hikes will price us out of canals, say houseboaters in England and Wales
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Charges to go up by as much as 75% for widest vessels under five-year
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