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Homeless fears for under-25s

Conservative plans to cut housing benefits for the under-25s could lead to more people becoming homeless, experts have warned.

Conservative plans to cut housing benefits for the under-25s could lead to more people becoming homeless, experts have warned.

Chancellor George Osborne, and work and pensions secretary Iain Duncan Smith, announced the move at the Tories' annual party conference on 8 October, as part of a series of reforms designed to cut £10bn from Britain's soaring welfare bill.

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