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"bedroom Tax" - Why......
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....has it picked up this annoying and innacurate name? It's not a tax is it?
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Mikey, //as this is coming from a Government that has sacked most of the disabled people who used to work for Remploy//
You sure this government is wholly responsible?
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You sure this government is wholly responsible?
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I have struggled to buy my house, been more broke than you can imagine, but, i know council house tenants who have re decorated their homes, made them them into really nice places,been there many years, and suddenly, good old dave wants them out, as their children have fled the nest. My friend is an ambulance person, paid a poorish wage for the hours and trauma he suffers ( and i can assure you, dragging dead children from a wreck has life changing implications) and the council house is all they can afford. So, lets throw him out, put him and his wife into a rundown hovel, and give some undesireables his lovely home. There are two sides to all stories, and Mr. Cameron thinks all council tenants are the same as " Shameless".
when this comes to your door, when they decide that all people who rent a place that is too big for them, watch out. I have heard that pensioners may well be on the hit list, so don't count yourselves immune from this, as to bedrooms, who wants to really live in a small one bed, where do you put your possessions, a lifetime of memories. no one wants to put up grandchildren, children on the sofa. not to mention a shortage of smaller properties, which the councils are aware of, as our council housing reps told us so.
The anomaly is this, rent a smaller property and they will pay the full housing benefit, even if it more than the property you are in. The catch is that there is a cap on housing benefit now, so your chance of finding a suitable smaller property that is actually affordable for you and for the council is slim, i am specifically talking about here, as i don't know about other councils, or out in the sticks.
The anomaly is this, rent a smaller property and they will pay the full housing benefit, even if it more than the property you are in. The catch is that there is a cap on housing benefit now, so your chance of finding a suitable smaller property that is actually affordable for you and for the council is slim, i am specifically talking about here, as i don't know about other councils, or out in the sticks.
em10; people have had things too good for too long to remember how people used to manage in small houses . You have no room to put your memories? Oh dear: some of my generation grew up with 7 children in two up two down terrace housing. The farm cottage I'm in at the moment has two bedrooms and for 20 years, previously to me moving in, housed a family with four children! People who are getting a rent free house (or near as damn to) should be glad they are getting a roof put over their heads paid for by
Tax payers, and stop moaning that they have 'no space'.
Tax payers, and stop moaning that they have 'no space'.
I live in a small cottage with only two bedrooms and my grandson LOVES to come and stay and sleep on the couch. He could bunk down in the second bedroom but its full of my Art stuff and he prefers to sleep on the couch. people really do expect to much for nothing and would be surprised to see how people in other countries have to cope with no help from the government.
