Critics who claim the government’s controversial housing benefit reforms will lead to an increase in homelessness are to use an independent review to force ministers to re-think cuts. Welfare reform minister Lord Freud has bowed to pressure from peers to announce the review, which will report to parliament in three stages, concluding in the spring of 2013. Housing benefit cuts are due to take effect from April. Ministers are also considering dropping or changing an unpopular benefit cut for the long-term unemployed. Ministers are holding talks on whether to drop or amend plans to cut housing benefit by 10 per cent for those claiming jobseeker’s allowance for more than a year from 2013. Read more on Inside Housing.
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