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Chancellor John Healey urged to end housing benefit freeze hitting low-income families at Budget

Foundation warns more than 1.1million are facing a 'cost-of-housing crunch' as the gap between local rents and benefit support people can claim is set to reach a record high this autumn

Chancellor John Healey urged to end housing benefit freeze hitting low-income families at Budget

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Foundation warns more than 1.1million are facing a 'cost-of-housing crunch' as the gap between local rents and benefit support people can claim is set to reach a record high this autumn

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Foundation warns more than 1.1million are facing a 'cost-of-housing crunch' as the gap between local rents and benefit support people can claim is set to reach a record high this autumn

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