Cameron's 17 welfare reform ideas...condensed

WELL FAIR REFORM?

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Prime Minister David Cameron has set out 17 proposed reforms of the welfare state in a bid to find £10bn worth of spending cuts.

Here, we outline the measures which could affect your clients in condensed form. (with thanks to The Guardian, which did the donkey work on this). The new measures 1 Removing access to housing benefit for anyone aged 16-24, a move that would save £2bn a year and affect 210,000 social housing tenants. There would be some exemptions. 2 Banning anyone earning above £60,000 from access to a council house tenancy, affecting 12,000 to 34,000 households. Alternatively, restrict access to council housing to anyone earning more than £100,000, affecting 1,000 to 6,000 council tenants. 3 Br...

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