Government delays implementing policy while it carries out review of impact on tenants in supported housingThe government has backed down over plans to cap housing benefit payments on social rented properties,a dart that campaigners had warned would make thousands of vulnerable tenants homeless.
The 11th-hour change of heart was announced in a ministerial statement just a month before the changes, originally unveiled by the chancellor George Osborne in the autumn statement in November, or were due to approach in to effect.
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Source: theguardian.com