HOUSEHOLDS in Warrington will be an average of £56 a month worse off as a result of government cuts to Local Housing Allowance, according to Shelter.
The findings come from new, independent research commissioned by the housing charity which reveals that 134,000 households across England will either be evicted or forced to move when the cuts come in because they will be unable to negotiate cheaper rents from their landlords.
It estimates that nationally as many as 35,000 households will approach their local authority for housing assistance, which could cost government up to £120 million a year.
Campbell Robb, chief executive of Shelter says: “Shelter’s research clearly shows that these cuts will mean households in Warrington are going to face a real struggle keeping a roof over their head. Unfortunately, an increase in homelessness is inevitable.
“That’s why Warrington Borough Council needs to start planning now to ensure their homelessness services can cope with the demand they are going to face.
“We urge Warrington Council to set aside resources to ensure the most vulnerable, including children, pensioners and the disabled are protected from these cuts.”
Shelter’s figures are based on the average loss per month on the average three bedroom household.
HOUSEHOLDS in Warrington will be an average of £56 a month worse off as a
result of government cuts to Local Housing Allowance, according to
Shelter.
Households will be £56 worse off
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How can households across Warrington be an average of nearly £700 a year worse off as a result of cuts to a benefit which the vast majority don’t get?
Maybe the households which currently claim the benefit could be worse off to something like that extent – but not those of us who go out to work to pay for it. Another example of a charity producing mis-leading psuedo-statistics to inflate their own importance.
New idependant research, my arras!!!.
“before we start this research, would you like to tell us what you would like the results to show”.
Expensive research is hardly going to give the wrong answer they would soon be out of a job.
I don’t know why this garbage is given space on the front page because nobody with any sense is going to believe it.
As I read the article my thoughts were echoing those of Inky Pete! We certainly don’t get any benefits and neither do most people we know, we just work to provide for ourselves and live within our means.
I guess that’s how much they are going to increase y’alls taxes to be able to keep the ‘poor’ (?) from losing out.
And so the public opinion goes!. If the people who have gone to private landlords to occupy a house outside their means so that they need benefit to be there now have to go to council for council accomodation then this will increase the demand for social housing and therefore boost the building indusry. alternatively. knowing of the forthcoming shortfall they could….oh I don’t know…go get a job !.. now where did I put my symapthy…looks under scroungers hiouse…nope not here!