Forces familes, foster carers and families with severely disabled children protected from housing benefit changes
Originally published by UK Liberal Democrats
Commenting, Co-chair of the Liberal Democrat Parliamentary Party Committee on Work and Pensions, Greg Mulholland said:
"There is a real need to deal with the chronic shortage of social housing. It is therefore important to encourage people who are under-occupying to move in to smaller accommodation to free up desperately needed family homes.
"There has, however, been concern that a number of groups have not been exempt from the plans for the spare room subsidy.
"I am delighted that as a result of Liberal Democrat pressure the Secretary of State has announced that families with severely disabled children who cannot share with a sibling, Armed Forces families and foster carers will now be exempt from the loss of part of their housing benefit."