Housing benefit reform delayed until January 2012
Millions of people who currently claim housing benefit are to be given more time before cuts are introduced.
Ministers had planned to introduce a cap from next April on how much housing benefit could be claimed.
But existing claimants will now have until January 2012 to adjust their circumstances if needed before the caps are brought in, the BBC understands.
The BBC's deputy political editor James Landale reports.
28 Nov 2010
- From the section UK Politics