A blanket removal of housing benefit from 18- to 21-year olds would affect nearly 20,000 young people.
On top of the limitations imposed by the Bedroom Tax, benefits cap, abolition of tax credits and removal of housing benefit entitlement for under 21s, it further threatens the city's ability to build and let affordable stock.
Labour will now have to decide whether it can stomach this in pursuit of appearing tough on welfare, along with the lower benefit cap and removal of housing benefit for under-21s.
The government has pledged to create 3m more funded by a cut to the welfare cap and removal of housing benefit from jobless 18- to 21-year-olds – but where will it find the companies to take them?
PAGE A12 Tallying Storms' Smaller Tabs Most of the government's estimated $150 billion bill for storm relief is going for aid checks to victims and contracts for debris removal and housing.
Up to 30,000 young people will be hit by the removal of housing benefit from those aged from 18 to 21 who will see their jobseeker's allowance replaced by an allowance limited to six months.
The fund, created to set aside at least some money to support the Haitian government, had "ended up significantly focused on two areas where the donors don't have standing expertise — debris removal and housing," Ms. Gilbert said.
Announcing the contribution at the third meeting of Haiti's reconstruction commission, Cheryl Mills, chief of staff to Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, said that the United States preferred that 75 percent go toward rubble removal and housing repairs.
A plan by the prime minister to reduce the welfare cap from £26,000 to £23,000 and the removal of housing benefit from 18- to 21-year-olds on jobseeker's allowance will raise £255m a year, which will be used to fund the apprenticeships.
