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Chancellor George Osborne and Work and Pensions Secretary Iain Duncan Smith dismissed criticism that they said made the shake-up sound like “the beginning of the end of the world”.
They launched a fightback as 660,000 social housing tenants with a spare room began to lose an average £14 a week in what critics have dubbed a bedroom tax.
It is part of a package of welfare and tax changes coming into force this month which critics claim will hit poor families and the disabled especially hard.
Changes to council tax benefit will see bills for an estimated 2.4 million households rise an average £138 a year with two million paying for the first time, an anti-poverty group said.
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Polly Toynbee: The council tax benefit 'reform' is yet another example of the axe being devolved – and of the poorest being hit hardest. Delete the scoop?
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Notting Hill Housing faces an end to 700 tenancies when the housing benefit cap hits London households.
Many people argue that the housing benefit bill is too high and that those needing support to find and sustain a home should not be housed in the most valuable properties in central London.
Notting Hill Housing provides 2,500 leased homes in London for homeless households and the rapid introduction of benefit caps for existing tenants will have profound and unfortunate effects for our tenants.
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