The Sun: 1,000 are paid £800 a week housing benefit

MORE than a THOUSAND families rake in a whopping £800 a week or MORE in housing benefit, The Sun can reveal. Twenty get over £1,500 a week - which is equivalent to the repayments on a £1.2MILLION mortgage. The huge sums emerged after we forced the Department for Work and Pensions to reveal the payouts under Freedom of Information laws. The Coalition Government has vowed to cap housing benefit at £400 a week. But our figures show a shocking 1,070 households across Britain currently get at least TWICE that. For a wealthy family, £800 a week - £3,200 a month - is equivalent to paying off a £600,000 mortgage. Most hard-working Brits can only dream of living in such a luxury pad.