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This petition was submitted during the 2010-2015 parliament

Petition Say no to forcing under 35's to shared accomodation

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Housing benefit is to be reduces for people up to the age of 35. This means that people who find themselves on very low income will be forced to claim the "shared allowance" in blackpool its £58 per week forcing people to live in flat shares with people they don't know. Also these same people will have to lose belongings if they can't keep them in a flat share.

The people targeted in this area 25-35 year olds, people most likely to put more into the system past and future then to take out.

The government said they would not punish the very poor for the mistakes made in the past by the government and banks

This petition is closed This petition ran for 6 months

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