Anyone who believes in equality must be alarmed at the Tory proposal to cut housing benefit to young people under 25.
As if our most vulnerable young people had not already been hardest hit with one million of them unemployed, the removal of legal aid and the cuts in a range of benefits. As Shelter pointed out yesterday, over half of those affected already have families of their own. Goodness knows how many more will be care leavers or those leaving custody.
As anyone who has ever worked with homeless young people knows, the usual reason for them becoming homeless is family breakdown, this proposed legislation is based on a flawed rose-tinted view, no doubt coloured by the experience of a pampered cabinet members who imagine everyone has the same experience of family life as them.
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