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Welfare Reform Green Paper

I welcome the statement, as the pathways to work project in my constituency, organised largely through the Shaw Trust, has been incredibly successful. How will the changes to housing benefit affect young people who have had difficult relationships and family breakdown and have ended up in voluntary housing settings such as Ty Cornel in the Porthcawl area, and those in the constituency of my hon. Friend the Member for Ogmore (Huw Irranca-Davies), in the Yellow project in Maesteg? They need to get back into education so that they can move forward, but they cannot then access housing benefit, because they are past the statutory breakdown age. Will we allow young people to stay in education and still be able to access housing benefit?