The housing market and in particular the private rented sector has got totally out of hand. In fact we now have a society full of people and their clever advisers geared up to milking as much money as possible from the less well off, including the youngsters we have reared, and (ultimately) the government. Many of these people are not even British citizens.
There has always been greed, but when it is on a national scale and has become a tax-deductible way of life, something is seriously wrong .

I agree that the various 'top-up benefits' have had an undesirable effect on the labour market, and have become an unnecessary burden (30 billion a year ? !) on the taxpayer.

I am particularly happy to see that the irresponsible and the feckless will no longer be rewarded to the same extent, for breeding.