A family of ten who on benefits were moved to a house worth £425,000 costing the taxpayer £1,200 a month in rent because of a shortage of housing. 33-year-old Arnold Sube said the family’s four-bedroom house in Bletchley provided by Luton borough council was too small for him, his wife and their eight children.
Before being offered the £425,000 property in Milton Keynes the family had rejected several properties as they were not large enough. Mr Sube who left Cameroon in 2001 for France before coming to Britain in 2012. He was placed on an NHS funded mental health nursing course at the University of Bedfordshire, the same year. The family is said to have received £14,000 in housing benefits along with £6,000 in child benefits and a further £22,700 in child tax credits.
In the UK around 358,000 households are said to be claiming housing benefit above the £26,000 annual cap. It expected 4,424,000 households this year will claim housing benefits under the £26,000 cap.
