Exclusive: Two-thirds of housing benefit claims marked as high risk in last three years were legitimate, figures showMore than 200,000 people have wrongly faced investigation for housing benefit fraud and error after the...
Read MoreCharity says lone-parent households are bearing brunt of housing crisis and that private renting is brokenMore than 70,000 lone-parent households are facing eviction this winter amid warnings that they are “bearing the...
Read MoreFreeze on payment since April 2020 and soaring rents mean number of homes affordable to recipients is lowest on recordFamilies on housing benefit are being driven to live in areas of high crime and low employment because only...
Read MoreGangs among those buying up cheap houses and claiming housing benefit for vulnerable people who do not live there, police sayRogue landlords are conning the government out of millions of pounds by fraudulently claiming housing...
Read MoreSir Bob Kerslake calls on government to protect at-risk tenants as it did during pandemicThe former head of the civil service has warned of a looming “catastrophic” homelessness crisis caused by the cost of living...
Read MoreRevelation comes at same time as government freezes housing allowance, which could drive many tenants into debtTory MPs are putting their rent payments worth tens of thousands of pounds on taxpayer-funded expenses while cutting...
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