Contact a Family is concerned families with disabled children will be disproportionately affected by changes that are due to be implemented in October 2011 and says families already struggling to meet their housing costs will be forced into housing unsuitable for their child.
Srabani Sen, chief executive of the charity, said: "Families with disabled children are more likely to be in rented accommodation, more likely to be on low income, less likely to be able to consider moving tenancy and may already be subsidising a shortfall in housing benefit – particularly where a child’s disability means they cannot share a bedroom with siblings.
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