Cameron Is Repeating the Housing Benefit Myth

Having long abandoned the pretence that "we're all in this together", David Cameron is preparing yet another raid on the welfare budget. He has announced plans to abolish housing benefit for under-25s and indicated that the government is considering "time-limiting" Jobseeker's Allowance, reducing the new benefits cap to £22,000 and restricting payments for large families (specifically, limiting child benefit to three children). As previously signalled by George Osborne, the cuts are designed to save the government £10bn but so far Cameron hasn't chosen to focus on the alleged savings. Rather, he has argued that the plans are necessary to reverse a "culture of entitlement". In his pre-speech interview with the Mail on Sunday, Cameron claimed that housing benefit "discourages" young people from working. Read more on the New Statesman website.