About 6% of social housing tenants in Britain affected by
changes to benefits partly designed to cut under-occupancy have moved home, BBC
research suggests. The employment minister said 6% - 30,000 people - was
"not a failure". BBC analysis of the data from social housing
providers also suggested 28% of affected tenants were in rent arrears, a year
after the changes came in. But Employment Minister Esther McVey disputed the
figures on debt, saying her own feedback from local authorities and the
National Housing Federation found an "indiscernible number" of
tenants were in arrears. She said 50% of people affected by the change were
already in debt. Read more on the BBC website.
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