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IDS drops housing benefit appeal but claims: ‘This is no climb-down’

21/03/2013 – 3:00 pm

The government has withdrawn an appeal to the Supreme Court that – if successful – would have meant that families could no longer claim enough housing benefit to pay for separate bedrooms for disabled children with high support needs.
The decision by the Conservative work and pensions secretary Iain Duncan Smith followed a week in which [...]

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Disabled claimants more likely to be hit by one per cent benefit cap, DWP admits

15/01/2013 – 10:00 am

The government has admitted that households which include disabled people are more likely to be affected by its decision to restrict most benefits to below-inflation increases.
Although the government insists that disability benefits – including disability living allowance and disability-related premiums – are protected from a new one per cent cap on annual increases, many disabled [...]

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