Asking as a BR ......

eklynne

I'm a full time student, single parent with a part time job and I pay just under £400 per month in rent. Maybe it feels reasonable to me because some of my friends' mortgages are in excess of £700 per month on similar sized properties.

suzannag

Three bedroom semi village location, £105 week rent £136 council tax (10 months). Housing Association.

maxmycardagain

eklynne wrote: »

2 adults working could surely afford that?

hardly a typical "welfare" family though, which would more normally be mum/dad and 2 kids

try paying it out of 1 wage....

which is eactly why we have the "not worth working" culture

gas/leccy/rent/rates would wipe out any average wage (40 hours at £5.25/hour)

so HMG have to prop up wages being taxed to the hilt with benefits for workers, then rob it back via rent+rates

sniggings

sorry but I wish my rent was £77 a week,dont forget if you cant afford that rent then you would get housing benifit and if you were to get a job £77 would be a good rent for someone working and as any repairs etc are taken care off, I think rent any less and the council housing would be indudated with appilcations,would someone living in a low council house want to ever move to buying their own home if rents were kept low,the area i live in I can not afford to rent a similar type councilhouse and I'm working full time,once people get these houses its very hard to move on as moving out would be a step down from where they were not as a few years ago people looked tomove from thses places but now it seems that they are a house for life and not just a stepping stone to something better,which i think they should be used for.

beentheredonethatstilhere

Unfortunatly I earn just over the threshold to get any help :rolleyes:

Though I have to admit we get a hefty chunk from CHB and CTC which helps. All I can say is thank goodness CHB is not included in IPA calculations.

Lightattheend

I feel quite lucky then - for my 3 bed semi detached council rent is about £65 pw (but no central heating) and council tax is about £66 pm over 10 months (with single persons discount).

single+2angel

. 2 bedroom council flat , 1st floor £106.35/week (£100.00 Housing Benefit, £ 6.35 paid by me)+£79.00 service charge /months(paid by me, includes water rates, ground cleaning, maintenance). I have Council tax paid by benefit( £12.50/week)
I have underfloor heating in sitting room, hallway and kitchen. No heating in bathroom or bedrooms ( wintertime normal around 13-14 c:eek: in bedrooms, really cold). We got a promise that council will install Central heating 3 years ago, :mad:still waiting, in the meantime I get horribly high electric bills because the underfloor heating having no termostat to control the heat and it takes 8 hours to warm up or to cool down)

Holes_in_my_pocket

My fathers 1 bed council bungalow is £108 a week he did get 100% benefits to pay this i moved in to care for him after a heart attack and now only gets 70% benefit even though i have to sleep on the sofa

jenni75

Our rent for a 3bed (council) is £79.85 weekly with four weeks rent free. Council tax is 99.50 per month over 12months.

bobblebot

I have a private let.. £900 per month for 5 bed house (me and 5 kids) LHA rate £1150, I get £962....good deal lol!