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Housing Benefit: Young People

Question for Department for Work and Pensions

UIN 57619, tabled on 14 December 2016

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate he has made of the number of people aged under 21 who will be affected by the proposed removal of the housing benefit element of universal credit.

Answered on

20 December 2016

Current estimates suggest that 10,000 people will be affected by the policy by 2020/21.