The DWP said the number of housing benefit recipients who
are exempt from paying the bedroom tax due to a legal loophole is estimated to
be "less than 5,000". A spokesman for the DWP today said it
"didn't recognise" the figure of 40,000 quoted in The Guardian
newspaper and said the estimates put forward by "so-called housing
experts" were "most likely balderdash". Read more on 24dash.
Burnham backtracks on spending housing fund only on building social homes
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About 40% of £10bn from Affordable Homes Programme will now go on types of
housing such as sheltered and shared ownership
Andy Burnham has backtracked on...
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