The Government has doubled the number of partial housing benefit claimants it believes will lose all of their entitlement as a result of the new under-occupation rules being introduced into the social housing sector next April.
A revised impact assessment published by the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) last month estimates that 40,000 claimants – in receipt of partial housing benefit – are likely to find that their entitlement ceases, and they "float off" the benefit completel...
