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Welfare changes in County Durham may leave people homeless
Benefit change ‘will put 4,500 more homes beyond families’
Feb 21, 2012
THE Government’s planned welfare reforms will place a further 4,500 County Durham homes beyond the reach of low-income families, a housing charity has claimed.
Cuts in payments of Local Housing Allowance (LHA) and caps on housing benefit could leave claimants facing potential homelessness, the Chartered Institute of Housing (CIH) has warned.
Benefits ‘cuts’ will hit cancer patients hard, say advisors
Until somebody becomes sick, they won’t understand what it’s like
Published on Tuesday 21 February 2012 12:00
CANCER patients face a bleak future in the face of changes being made to the benefits system, specialist welfare advisors in Leamington are warning.
Macmillan Cancer Support funds a Welfare Rights and Benefits Service at the Citizens Advice Bureau in Hamilton Terrace, where case workers Karen Jones and Jenny Harding aim to help cancer patients, their carers and those in palliative care deal with issues they may have to do with accessing funds, housing, dealing with employers and other welfare issues.
