Decision details
Cost of Living and Welfare Reform
Decision Maker: Community & Housing Overview & Scrutiny Committee
Decision status: Recommendations Approved
Is Allweddol decision?: No
Is subject to call in?: No
Purpose:
To provide an update on the impacts of welfare
reforms and the work that is ongoing to mitigate them.
Decision:
(a) That the Committee support the ongoing work to manage the impacts that welfare reform and the cost-of-living crisis has, and would continue to have, on some of the most vulnerable residents; and
(b) That the Committee note the support measures implemented via Welsh Government and the Council to mitigate impacts.
(c) That the Chair, on behalf of the Committee, write to the Minister for Works and Pensions to ask for consideration to be given to removing the cruel bedroom subsidy, which would elevate people out of the cost of living crisis.
Report author: Karen Powell
Publication date: 09/10/2024
Date of decision: 11/09/2024
Decided at meeting: 11/09/2024 - Community & Housing Overview & Scrutiny Committee
Accompanying Documents:
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