Just published on the Guardian www site is an
analysis of what the new budget will do to the housing benefit prepared by the
Chartered Institute of Housing.
I attached the briefing note they prepared.
I have to say it is fairly opaque to me but here is what they think it will do to our area....
![](https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/2058552773?profile=original)
Of course the red is where it is a loss.
I am not sure where the 5 bed "New Allowances" have gone without trawling carefully through the doc. An analysis of a hypothetical couple with 3 kids on the links above suggest in Welwyn Hatfield suggest a loss of ~£1500 per year. But it is easy to think of hypothetical cases where it looks worse in our area. The briefing note has this in it:
![](https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/2058552820?profile=original)
Sadly it is not possible to see where the boundaries of the regions lie because as the grauniad notes.
![](https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/2058552906?profile=original)
Sorry if that is a bit grim. I did think it was of interest.
Overall I wonder if the people who voted for the coalition expected that?
Mark.