Under-occupancy Penalty Debate
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(8 years, 7 months ago)
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As the Minister has said on several occasions, in both recent cases the appellants were in receipt of discretionary payments. Does he therefore agree that this demonstrates that the fund is working and helping those most in need?
That is exactly why we are getting the money to the people who need it, and rightly so.