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UK: Cameron proposes cuts in benefits
Under new welfare reforms to be announced by David Cameron, housing benefit for under-25s is expected to be scrapped to encourage youngsters to get a job or move back in with their parents.
The Prime Minister will use a speech in south-east England to outline future radical changes which are aimed at saving an extra £10 billion by 2016 on top of existing plans.
In an interview with The Mail on Sunday, Mr Cameron said: "We are sending out strange signals on working, housing and families.
"A couple will say, "we are engaged, we are both living with out parents, we are trying to save before we get married and have children and be good parents. But how dies it make us feel, Mr Cameron, when we see someone who goes ahead, has a child, gets the council home, gets the help that isn't available to us?
"One is trapped in a welfare system that discourages them from working, the other is doing the right thing and getting no help."
Stripping under-25s of benefits will knock young families off career ladder, claims Labour - Telegraph
Mr Cameron said working people could rest assured that they would be better off than those who spend their life on benefits.
No more 'languishing on the dole' after welfare reforms, says David Cameron - Telegraph
Ministers expect this "next wave" of benefit cuts to include the axing of all housing benefit currently paid to around 380,000 people aged under 25. Such a move would force many to move back in with their parents rather than living independently.
New welfare clampdown could axe housing benefit from under-25s - Telegraph
In an interview with The Telegraph, the Work and Pensions Secretary says that he is determined to introduce radical reforms to disability benefits which will see more than two million claimants reassessed in the next four years.
Iain Duncan Smith says that the number of claimants has risen by 30 percent in recent years "rising well ahead of any other gauge you might make about illness, sickness, disability". Losing a limb should not automatically entitle people to a pay-out, he suggests.
500,000 to lose disability benefit - Telegraph
Looks like now the Brits will be forced to get up and go find a job. Good and courageous move by Cameron.Gaye Williams, 38, pretended she was a single mum and claimed council housing and tax benefits as well as income support, Gloucester crown court heard.
But in fact her engineer husband Glyn was still with her and the couple were maintaining a common household, said prosecutor Mark Worsley.
He said Mrs Williams ran two cars, one of them a 4x4 and the couple bought two expensive Dogue do Bordeaux dogs - which cost about £1,000 each - and sent their son to a private school while she was claiming benefits.
Friends and neighbours of the couple could clearly see they were 'not stinting' in their lifestyle, added Mr Worsley.
Mrs Williams, of Oakle Street, Churcham, Glos, admitted three offences of obtaining benefits by dishonestly failing to disclose that her husband was living with her.
Benefit fraud mother sent son to private school - Telegraph
