Job-Linked Benefit Cuts Would Hit 200,000

Nearly 200,000 unemployed people will lose around £500 a year if cuts to housing benefit go ahead, union leaders have warned. Research by the Trades Union Congress warns that some of the most vulnerable people in the country will be hit by plans to cut housing benefit by 10 per cent for anyone claiming jobseeker’s allowance for more than a year. The government plans to introduce these cuts from 2013. Read more on Inside Housing.