Benefits Britain

[gulliver1]

Pleased to see this government is helping the elderly, the Queen and Philip,
are to receive Housing Benefits to the tune of 370 million, I though you had
to declare how much you had in the bank before you could get this benefit?

Wonder how much these two pensioners have in the bank?

[mallyh]

wonder if they get the £200 heating allowance?

[naomi24]

What's your problem, Gulliver? The Queen and Philip don't own Buckingham Palace. Would you expect a council tenant to pay for a new roof on his council house?

[hc4361]

The Queen doesn't own Buckingham House. The two properties she does own are not public funded

[scorpiojo]

http://www.theanswerbank.co.uk/News/Question1523652.html

[B00]

Odd post, littered with inaccuracies.

For starters its not a benefit they're receiving. It's not even their house, they're just tenants in it. The house itself is owned by the state. So think of it as a (admittedly glorified) council house that needs modernising by the council.

[HansUrbancka]

You are correct B00.

Reminds me of the story of a Yank who was being given a tour of London in a Taxi. The Cabbie got e bit fed up of his passenger repeatedly saying about places of interest...We have bigger and better in the States. However, when the yank enquired about Buckingham Palace, the Cabbie replied..."That's one of our Council Houses."

Hans.

[gulliver1]

Wonder if they have to pay council tax ?. On a place that size!
it would be a little bit expensive, yea.

[gulliver1]

What's you Problem N/24 ??????.

[naomi24]

I think Council Tax is charged on a sliding scale - H being the most expensive - so the Council Tax on Buckingham Palace would be no more than that on any large house.

[naomi24]

Gulliver, I don't have a problem. You do.

[THECORBYLOON]

I doubt they'd get any Housing Benefit at all. I suspect they have a few more bedrooms than needed for a couple of pensioners so the bedroom tax would come into play...

[EDDIE51]

There are only the normal council tax bands. Buckingham Palace will be in the highest band. It will pay no more than a much smaller house in the same band and area. (Actually I don't think it pays council tax)

[New Judge]

I try not to pass judgement too much here on AB (despite my name), gulliver, but you do spout a load of dross sometimes.

[Togo]

Not dross Judge. Bile.

[ladybirder]

Not sometimes, all the time.

[Baldric]

What a stupidly ill-informed OP.

[anneasquith]

With over 700 rooms, bedroom tax might be a bit expensive ?

[hc4361]

I wonder if it is classed as business premises

[mushroom25]

there are those who would like to see a certain pensioner relocated somewhere smaller. however like it or not this certain pensioner is still head of state and at this time, there is no credible political party campaigning on a manifesto of an elected head of state, so the UK will continue to be represented on the world stage by a monarch.

it really wouldn't show the country in a very good light if foreign dignitaries were received by the UK head of state at a council house in Slough, would it?

[anneasquith]

Absolutely not mushroom, a detached 4 bed in Milton Keynes is much more suitable .