That is why we need a local cap and should have an independent body like the Low Pay Commission to determine the level at which it is set for different areas. It could advise on other necessary policies like regulating the private landlords who have done so much to drive up the costs of housing benefit.Which leads IDS to ask them:
I would be grateful if you could clarify whether you are proposing setting benefit rates on a regional basis.Indeed, Byrne has written that "all that £500 a week might get you in central London is a one-bedroom apartment, [but] in Rotherham, Yorkshire it would get you a six-bedroom house".
Several conclusions could be drawn, such as don't make taxpayers subsidise benefit claimants for rents in expensive areas over anything but a short term.
As the debate continues, bear in mind that benefits are not paid with government money. The government does not have any money. That money belongs to the people.
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A bad idea. Not only will it increase bureacracy, but it will create the problem which exists in the USA where people on welfare migrate across boundaries to states where payments are more generous. A significant amount of time and resource is to spent investigating people's "real" place of normal residence.
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