Under 25s Could Lose Housing Benefits

Under 25s Could Lose Housing Benefits.

In an interview in the Mail on Sunday, David Cameron has suggested that people under the age of 25 could lose the right to housing benefit.  Scrapping the benefit for that age group would save almost £2bn a year.

In the newspaper article, Mr Cameron claimed the existing system was sending out "strange signals" on working, housing and families and he wants to stop workers resenting people on benefits.  He also added that the welfare system sent out the signal that people were "better off not working, or working less".

Later this week, Mr Cameron will set out more proposals aimed at cutting the UK's welfare bill, which could include forcing some unemployed to do community work after two years on benefits.