Budget 2010: Moves to finish oppulance homes on handouts

By Tom Whitehead, Home Affairs Editor 412PM GMT twenty-four March 2010

The Government has faced critique for a complement that allows a little family groups on handouts to live in lush properties paid for out of the open purse.

From Oct subsequent year the majority costly let properties around the nation will be in isolation from the list and will save, along with anti-fraud measures, �250 million a year.

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The shift centres on those who make use of housing good to rent in isolation properties. Currently all accessible let home are used to work out the normal rent, that is afterwards used as the limit volume for handouts.

Removing the majority costly properties from the calculation will in spin move down the normal rent figure.

The tip eight per cent of such properties in London alone will be excluded.

In Nov it emerged a family of former haven seekers were vital in a �1.8 million home in executive London, costing

taxpayers some-more than �83,000 a year.

Last month it was reported a family of 6 were vital in a �2 million palace in London.

Yvette Cooper, the Work and Pensions Secretary, pronounced "Housing Benefit is unequivocally critical to assistance family groups on low income compensate their rent.

"But it isn"t satisfactory for the taxpayer to account a really small minority of people to live in costly houses that overworked family groups could never afford."