Friday, 25 May 2012

Housing benefit cuts slammed by sector

25/06/2010 | By Chloë Stothart, Carl Brown

Government plans to dock housing benefit from the long-term unemployed have been slammed as ‘nasty’ by tenants’ groups.

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