In recent weeks the numbers of people claiming housing benefit reached five million for the first time.
Universal Credit will replace benefits including income support and housing benefit with a single payment.
Labour's attempts to characterise planned housing benefit changes as a "bedroom tax" were "nonsense".
Senior Labour MP Frank Field has urged landlords to take "direct action" against housing benefit changes.
Families on housing benefit will be assessed for the number of bedrooms they actually need.
On 1 April, the first element of changes to housing benefit came into force.
The Conservative-controlled council said the change was necessary because of government plans to cap housing benefit.
He is concerned that he will be penalised by these changes to the housing benefit.
Planned housing benefit curbs for the jobless have been dropped but tenants 'under-occupying' homes face cuts.
Planned housing benefit cuts would lead more people to look for work, he added.
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Child benefit, housing benefit and universal credit will be capped for two years from 2014-15.
It also suggested nearly 90% of claimants know little or nothing about housing benefit cuts.
Housing benefit was paid to 63% of social households but just 25% of private tenants.
Mr Cameron lauded the capping of housing benefit and pledged more pressure on the work-shy.
He asked Mr Osborne to withdraw the forthcoming change in housing benefit rules, dubbed the "bedroom tax".
The 22-year-old's father Mark now says his housing benefit has been stopped because he part-owns a property.
Tenants with spare bedrooms will see their housing benefit cut when the change is introduced next April.
The recently passed Welfare Reform Bill will introduce a number of changes to the existing housing benefit system.
She added that Labour would be voting in the Commons on Tuesday against plans to cut Housing Benefit.
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In a BBC interview, Mr Duncan Smith defended his housing benefit reforms saying the current system was unfair.
Mr Neary said his solicitor was examining whether the council had acted legally in stopping his housing benefit.
Planned changes to housing benefit will cost NI more money than it saves, two housing associations have claimed.
The aim is to avoid more applicants from expensive areas moving in because of government housing benefit changes.
It has been claimed as many as 95, 000 people in Scotland may lose some of their housing benefit.
The prime minister also stressed the government was now looking at cutting housing benefit for persistent nuisance neighbours.
The change affects council tenants, and those renting from housing associations, of working age who receive housing benefit.
Information submitted relates to, for example, housing benefit, rent, pension payments, payments to asylum seekers and council tenancies.
The changes will impact on thousands in NI and affect disability living allowance, housing benefit and employment support.
The new rules will affect housing benefit, which is paid to less well-off tenants to help with rent.
Ministers say they want housing benefit claimants to choose to rent properties they can afford when in work.
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