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Theresa May has failed to reverse £555million of benefit cuts despite her pledge to help 700,000 vulnerable tenants.

Now shadow Housing minister John Healey is to seek the PM’s assurance the cash will be available.

The Prime Minister appeared to make a U-turn last week when she scrapped benefit caps for supported housing tenants after warnings that rents would become unaffordable and tenants could end up homeless.

But the Tories still plan to slash £390million of housing benefit payments and housing allowance worth £165million in 2020.

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Mrs May will outline details on Tuesday and Mr Healey will press her to put her money where her mouth is.

He said: “As things stand there is still a funding cliff-edge of more than half-a-billion pounds a year pencilled in.

“Ministers must end this uncertainty and give residents a guarantee they will safeguard their long-term future.”