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Council Tax Benefit reforms will pitch young against old, as well as poor against poor

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One of the proposed reforms of the welfare system is moving the responsibility for Council Tax Benefit to local authorities. However, central government has included a number of stipulations that local authorities must obey that will affect their abilities to run benefits. Craig Berry and David Sinclair discuss how one such stipulation will affect working age recipients most acutely.

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http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/39228/1/blogs.lse.ac.uk-Council_Tax_Benefit_reforms_will_pitch_young_against_old_as_well_as_poor_against_poor.pdf