One of the key changes planned for next January will be to encourage younger tenants to live together in shared properties rather than more expensive one-bedroom flats.
The 'shared accommodation rate' currently limits the benefit a single person under 25 can receive to the average rent charged for a room in a shared house.
This will be extended to the age of 35. But housing charities Crisis and Shelter have warned as many as 88,000 people will lose £47 a week each, triggering a surge in homelessness.
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