More in work claiming #HousingBenefit than #unemployed – The @Conservatives true performance! Today saw the latest quarterly Housing Benefit figures released by the Department for Work and Pensions - DWP which detail the position at August 2014. Below I say what these are and compare them to the inherited position at May 2010. Please read until the end – the figures are explosive in #political terms and the precise type of FACT that the social housing lobbies should be issuing on #HousingDay – more in work claimants of HB than unemployed #claimants!! A) Claimant count is now 4,930,162 and has increased by 178,636 since the election. Of these additional 178,636 new claimants since the election 89% of them live in the private #rented sector or 9 in every 10 new claimants of HB live in the PRS. However note well that the numbers of PRS claimants of HB has begun to fall over the last year and that is clear evidence of PRS #landlords becoming ever more reluctant to house the ‘benefit claimant.’ If the hare-brained proposal to reduce the overall benefit cap to £440pw goes ahead then expect this figure to plummet. B) Those in work and claiming HB – The latest figures is 1, 078,413 and up 427,862 since the election which in percentage terms is a 66% increase and strongly supports the assertion that Housing Benefit is a subsidy for #LowWage paying #employers C) Bizarrely A) and B) above reveals that the percentage of new HB claimants in work is 240%!
Posted on: Wed, 12 Nov 2014 18:22:45 +0000
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