Podcast: The benefit cap bites

Are those on benefits being treated unfairly by the coalition? Ministers are preventing them from receiving more than £26k a year, leaving many with nowhere to turn. Just like the rest of us, then…

This week Alex Stevenson is joined by politics.co.uk reporter Georgie Keate. We speak to a victim of the coalition's £26,000 benefit cap and examine the debate surrounding this controversial measure.

The podcast also features interviews with Steve Bullock, the mayor of Lewisham and London Councils' executive member for housing; Lizzie Clifford, London lead manager at the National Housing Federation; Robert Oxley, the TaxPayers' Alliance campaign manager; and Geoff Fimister, social policy officer at the Citizens Advice Bureau.

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