The minister in charge of UK welfare reform has reiterated a
pledge that a cap on housing benefit payments to the rate of inflation will be
monitored and altered if it fails to keep pace with rents. Speaking at the
Conservative Party conference Lord Freud also said a series of ‘randomised
trials’ – including on housing - were being introduced to measure the impact of
welfare changes into the single universal credit. Lord Freud said: ‘We will be
monitoring how the CPI cap works as clearly we can’t put it on forever. And we
will make the appropriate adjustments on the basis of what we find.’ Read more
on Inside Housing.
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