The proposal is to take into account the size of accommodation in relation to the size of the household when assessing Housing Benefit claims, so it will affect existing tenants who rely on benefits. This is being introduced under the guise of freeing up under-occupied accommodation for families that need it - and those families will be offered the properties at new, non-secure tenancies at up to 80% of the local market rent. At the same time, the Government proposes to cap the maximum amount of Housing Benefit payable. All of this has worrying consequences for social tenants in areas where rents are high, whether they are working or claiming benefits. I have read a fair amount on the new proposals, written by people from a whole range of political perspectives but funnily enough none of them links the proposals to 'mass immigration' so I wonder where this 'fact' comes from? As for people that cheat the social housing/welfare and benefit systems, they come from all sorts of backgrounds and some of them are even 'people have lived in their homes most of their lives'...