Campaigners Unite To Fight Housing Benefit Cuts

More than 30 tenant, trade union and campaign groups are linking up to build a national umbrella campaign to fight cuts to housing benefit.  Initial plans from The Campaign for Benefit Justice, which will also oppose ‘attacks’ on other benefits, include protests aimed at Lord Freud, the welfare minister, and Iain Duncan Smith, secretary of state for work and pensions. The campaign will also stage a protest on Budget day and a summit in London. The 31 groups backing the campaign include Defend Council Housing and Disabled People Against Cuts campaigns and the trade unions Unite and the Public and Commercial Services Union.  Read more on the Defend Council Housing website.