UNIVERSAL CREDIT CAP

London Councils have calculated that there are 133,000 of the poorest households in London who will sustain an average loss of £105 a week as a result of the housing benefit regulations, which start coming into effect on the 1st January 2012, and the cap on the Universal Credit (UC), which will be debated by Peers on the 10th, 17th and 23rd January. This will have a devastating effect on the tenants capacity to buy let alone eat a healthy diet, and damage the mental and physical health of individuals, parents and children. Already Waltham Forest council is taking households pushed out of Westminster and Kensington, they have been warned to get out before the axe falls, therefore prices are going up in Waltham Forest whose council has made a deal with private landlords in Luton to take their deprived households.

We need help to get 100,000 signatures on our e-petition on the government website calling for abolition of the cap on the UC in London and a reform of the housing benefit caps in London before Peers debate the issue in January.
Pease sign on line our e-petition at 10 Downing Street before 7th January (see below)

http://epetitions.direct.gov.uk/petitions/25438

If we reach at least 100,000 signatures the petition will be eligible for a debate in the house of commons.