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Welfare 'camps' fear

Housing benefit reform could cause ‘transient camps’, according to leader of St Helens MBC, Cllr Marie Rimmer.

Housing benefit reform could cause ‘transient camps', according to leader of St Helens MBC, Cllr Marie Rimmer.

Cllr Rimmer submitted a motion to the council calling on the Government to reject ‘any attempt to force people out of their family homes', as a result of the under-occupation penalty in the Welfare Reform bill.

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