The organisation is disappointed that A new deal for welfare: Empowering people to work contains no reference to young people in the housing benefit section, despite concern over the single room rent restriction limiting the amount of benefits received for single, childless under-25s.
Research published last year by the Department for Work and Pensions showed that 87 per cent of under-25s receiving housing benefit faced an average weekly shortfall of 35.14, compared with a 16.34 short-fall for people not subject to restrictions.
The green paper also contains proposals for reforming incapacity benefit designed to get people back into work, as well as a section on lone parents.
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