Crisis Launches No Going Home Campaign

Currently 385,000 people under 25 claim housing benefit across the UK. Many of these people work, or are looking for work, others are sick or disabled. More than half are parents bringing up children.  The prime minister has said that instead of claiming housing benefit, under-25s should move back in with their parents but Crisis, the national charity for single homeless people, has warned that for many this would be impossible. Last year ten thousand people were accepted as homeless because their parents would not or could not house them and more than a third of homeless people were aged 16-24.  In response to the threat, Crisis has launched No Going Home, a campaign to protect housing benefit for under-25s.  Find more details on the Crisis website.