What does this sentence mean?
"88,000 households could be eligible to housing relief each year, costing Treasury about £1.32bn a year."
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What does this sentence mean?
"88,000 households could be eligible to housing relief each year, costing Treasury about  £1.32bn a year."
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It means that those households may be helped financially by the government.

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It means that those households could be entitled to receive financial help from the government.