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To use the money to buy your first home and i think that will be used as a vehicle for people to save in it without that effect on your benefits entitlement.- it without that effect on your benefits entitlement. kevin, thanks for “oininr benefits entitlement. kevin, thanks forjoining us- _ we can speak now to lindsayjudge from the resolution foundation. it's an organisation which studies how to improve the lives of people on low and middle incomes. thanks forjoining us. there are three issues here and if i may i would like to take them in turn. let's begin with using benefits to help people ...

Overall to make sure it works better, and look also at the benefit system, in order to ensure that people who currently are receiving benefit which will to landlords can use that, that income, in order to get on the property ladder. 0ur political correspondent, nick eardley is in blackpool, lancashire for us. hello to you nick. so is this idea of allowing housing benefit, potentially, to count towards the cost of a mortgage, is that new, because labour is saying that what the prime minister is going to be talking about is a rehash of old ideas? , , ., ~ ., ., ideas? eyes, morning annita, that ...

Overall to make sure it works better for everyone, and looking also at the benefit system, in order to ensure that people who currently are receiving benefit which is goign to landlords can use that income in order to get on the property ladder. 0ur political correspondent, nick eardley, is in blackpool. he explained what is new in the government's new proposals on housing. that speech annita this morning in lancashire is going to be a big deal the prime minister hopes, i think the prime minister hopes, i think the part about benefits is new, yes. the idea the government is coming up with is i...

Considering whether to accept your mortgage application. that is a commercial decision for lenders and thatis commercial decision for lenders and that is something that the government has little power to change. what they can change is the benefit system and that is what they are looking at, universal credit starts to get ta ken are looking at, universal credit starts to get taken away when you have savings of £6,000 and it starts to be taken away, and when he gets to be taken away, and when he gets to savings of £16,000 then you can't claim universal credit, so the idea here is, and we have...

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