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Lords Tries to block housing benefit cuts

Lords tries to block housing benefit cuts

Peers will hold a debate this evening to decide if they will scrap the government�s housing benefit cuts.

Lord Knight of Weymouth, a Labour peer, has tried to annul the secondary legislation, introduced in December, they are opposed to the legislation because it will bring in a number of cuts to housing benefit. This is a second attempt to annul this legislation a previous attempt failed in December by colleagues in the House of Commons.

Independent peer Lord Best has decided to table a motion that the government carry out an independent review of the effects of the housing benefit cuts.

The Conservatives on the benches have launched an offensive against the motion. Lord Fallon, deputy chairman of the Conservative Party,informed us of research showing that someone on average earnings would have to work for twenty seven years before their tax payments covered the housing benefit that some families receive in the current system.

Lord Fallon said: �Labour thought it was fair to make people on low and middle incomes work for decades to pay these extraordinary housing benefit bills. Their culture of not living within their means left average earners picking up the bill. This is completely unfair.�

Posted: 25 January 2011

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