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Housing experts are encouraging as many
people as possible around the UK to make their
views known on the future of housing benefit in
the government consultation that has been
launched.
Over 80% of government funding for housing
in the UK is in the form of housing benefit,
which is currently paid to five million tenants
and amounts to £17 billion per year. The long
term future of housing benefit, the way it
supports people back into work and provides
stable predictable basis for future planning is
all open to discussion.
An online discussion site is now open and
hosted by the Chartered Institute of Housing
(CIH). The consultation will be open until 22
February 2010.
Abigail Davies, CIH Head of Policy, said:
"Housing benefit accounts for the lion’s share
of housing spend in the UK and there has never
been a more important opportunity to reform
housing benefit to ensure that it provides a
stable basis for supporting people to get back
into work and to plan for the future.
"We are pleased to be asked by the Department
for Work and Pensions to lead on this important
consultation and would encourage as many people
to have their say as possible."
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