A new infamous record for billions. 295 thousand people receive housing benefit, it will be absorbed by the benefit reform

The number of people applying for generous housing benefits continues to grow dramatically. The benefit, which has begun to be abused even among well-off people in recent years after government appeals, was received by twenty thousand more households in February year-on-year. This is a new record, with over 1.9 billion crowns paid in a single month. A similar pace can be expected at least until October, when the social benefits reform should com…