Rent aid cuts ‘will up pressure on pregnant’

CUTS in rent supplements will put pregnant women under even more pressure, the Crisis Pregnancy Agency has warned.

The Government is planning to save 30m by refusing rent supplements to people unless they have been renting private accommodation for six months.

The chairwoman of the Crisis Pregnancy Agency (CPA) said pregnant women would no longer have the option of moving out of the family home to secure accommodation. “If this is not changed, there will be problems,” Olive Braiden said. “If a woman has no accommodation while she’s pregnant and she has people pushing her into a termination, the agency has to be able to say ‘If you’ve no accommodation, you will get it’.”