Plans to cap housing benefit for thousands of mentally
ill, elderly and other vulnerable people in supported housing are to be
re-examined after protests by MPs and charities. The rethink also follows
evidence from the NHF, which found that 85% of schemes to build new supported
and sheltered homes for vulnerable people have been shelved by housing
associations because of fears that the new funding system will make them
unsustainable. More than 700,000 people in supported housing usually have the
accommodation element of their costs met entirely through housing benefit. But
under plans announced by the government in 2015, and due to be introduced from
next year, these payments would be capped in the same way as for people renting
in the private sector. Read more on the Observer website.
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