LHA Unfair - Campaign needed

elasticated17

Perr wrote: »

The reason you get less LHA is because it is based on the rate for a bedsit and not a flat. This is because it is assumed tthis is all under 25s leaving home can afford with or without benefits.

This is ridiculous (not your post but the assumed opinion) if I was 25 this would not be an issue and I would get my FULL RENT paid. At 24 years old I am an ADULT subject to tax, redundancy, unemployment - same as those over 25. My mother is single and a carer to my gran and I have no family money to fall back on.

elasticated17

Also those who think £120 a week rent is expensive really baffle me. A bedsit in London is £145 a week!

Oldernotwiser

There have to be lines drawn somewhere and, unfortunately, you're on the wrong side of this one. This is the wrong place to discuss benefit policy.

elasticated17

Sorry I thought this was the benefit thread. All I can say is that the young generation of this country who have strived to do well in their education, be independant, have a good career and live within their means really do lose out when help is needed.

Maybe I'm the one in the wrong but I hope that your kids/ young members of your family all get the help they deserve when - THROUGH NO FAULT OF THEIR OWN - they end up desperate and dangerously poor.

elasticated17

Thanks oldernotwiser - just understood what you mean - i will repost this on the discussion forum. Thanks!

OrkneyStar

Did you not manage to save anything when you were earning £22K, as a single person ? For times like this I mean ? That would help you pay toward your rent until you were able to get another job (hopefully soon).