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Private Firms Profit From Supported Housing Benefit, BBC Finds
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Private companies are making huge profits from supported exempt accommodation, a benefits system for people with extra needs, BBC Panorama found. Property agents lure people in with social media videos offering free rooms, consoles and holidays. The Department for Work and Pensions paid out £410m for the scheme in Birmingham alone last year. Some residents get little support. Birmingham's council leader called it a scandal.
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