Parliament to protect housing benefit payments during Coronavirus.

Housing benefit, and other benefits, require a minimum number of hours to be worked. During emergency Coronavirus measures I want the government to remove the hours worked test to ensure that the emergency health measures do not create additional family misery for those who require benefits top up

This petition closed on 6 Sep 2020 with 483 signatures


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Family benefits, including housing benefit,require individuals/parents to work a minimum number of hours. The Coronavirus emergency measures may prevent the minimum hours being met, especially in jobs that don’t protect income when absent or on a zero hours contract. To prevent an increase in homelessness I want the govt to put in place measures to protect benefits by removing the test for hours worked should a Coronavirus emergency be invoked, especially for housing benefit.


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