`Rent cuts needed` for housing aid reforms to work
`Rent cuts needed` for housing aid reforms to work
- 1998
- Guardian 23 March 1998, 8(1) .
Plans to curb the £12bn housing benefit bill are criticised as not feasible unless rents are lowered for millions of council and private tenants. Government has warned that housing benefit fraud will the big target of the next stage of reform.
BENEFIT FRAUD
HOUSING BENEFIT
PRIVATE RENTED SECTOR
RENT REDUCTIONS
SOCIAL HOUSING
Plans to curb the £12bn housing benefit bill are criticised as not feasible unless rents are lowered for millions of council and private tenants. Government has warned that housing benefit fraud will the big target of the next stage of reform.
BENEFIT FRAUD
HOUSING BENEFIT
PRIVATE RENTED SECTOR
RENT REDUCTIONS
SOCIAL HOUSING