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A NEW housing benefit cap will poke a £68 hole in the pockets of thousands of elderly people and put their lives at risk, housing providers warned yesterday.
The cap would see housing benefit for social housing put on a level with private renters’ local housing allowance, but no provisions have been made for supported accommodation.
According to the National Housing Federation (NHF) over 50,000 households could be affected in the first year of the cap.
Our housing crisis isn’t an accident – it’s class war, trapping millions in poverty while landlords and billionaires profit. To solve it, we need comprehensive transformation, not mere tokenistic reform, writes BECK ROBERTSON
GEOFF BOTTOMS, who has worked in a palliative care hospice for 11 years, argues the postcode lottery for proper end-of-life care must be ended to give the terminally ill choice and agency
