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`Rent cuts needed` for housing aid reforms to work

Language: English Series: Guardian ; 23 March 1998, 8(1)Publication details: 1998Subject(s): Summary: 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.

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.