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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Simon Murphy

Unscrupulous providers housing the vulnerable ‘making excessive profits in taxpayer-funded gold-rush’

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Unscrupulous providers housing vulnerable people are making “excessive profits by capitalising on loopholes” in a taxpayer-funded “gold-rush”, MPs have warned.

A damning report calls for changes to the provision of exempt accommodation, a form of supported housing funded by housing benefit – with MPs hearing how there is “a licence to print money to those who wish to exploit the system”.

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