Housing benefit and renting??

AMILLIONDOLLARS

Background

My next door neignbour has moved out of his three bedroom semi and is now proposing to rent it out to a family with five children:eek:, seven in total, apparently they are claiming housing benefit at the moment for a three bedroom house in a cheaper area, so moving next door will mean an increase in their rent.

Question will the council permit this? with that amount of children surely it would be better to be renting a four bed to justify the extra cost to the tax payer?

I do not mind admitting that I am put off by the thought of seven people in a three bed-semi:eek::eek: and the rest of my neighbours are hopping mad:D:D

AMD

terryw

Perfectly ok providing the rent does not exceed the LHA in which the tenant will have to pay the excess.

C_Mababejive

Welcome to BTL Britain,the modern way of ensuring social mobility.

Just think about the long hot summers ahead,listening to their wailing brats,the music,the chav barbecues etc etc...

Makes you wonder why you work eh?

AMILLIONDOLLARS

Yes, it makes you wonder:( I work seven days a week to pay my mortgage and to live in a good area, (never claimed anything in my life) then someone comes along and pushes out five children and gets to live in the same neighbourhood for FREE!

AMD

Wee_Willy_Harris

C_Mababejive wrote: »

Welcome to BTL Britain,the modern way of ensuring social mobility.

Just think about the long hot summers ahead,listening to their wailing brats,the music,the chav barbecues etc etc...

Makes you wonder why you work eh?

Steady on there.

LHA rates are set at the AVERAGE rent for a suitable property for a specific family size. Note AVERAGE. How the recipient should choose to use that amount is entirely up to them (as it is with everyone else). In many cases, landlords have cottoned on to this and will vary the amount charged according to the family size. So, greedy landlords play a part as well as "chav" tenants. As for your comment about working? You don't have to be unemployed to claim LHA. ANY large family on a low(ish) wage may qualify for assistance, particularly in high rent areas. I appreciate this doesn't fit in with your desire, I assume, to ghettoise sections of the community, but we are supposed to be in a fair society.

Wee_Willy_Harris

AMILLIONDOLLARS wrote: »

Yes, it makes you wonder:( I work seven days a week to pay my mortgage and to live in a good area, (never claimed anything in my life) then someone comes along and pushes out five children and gets to live in the same neighbourhood for FREE!

AMD

Clearly you just didn't work hard enough to live in a VERY nice area, which would be out of any familys LHA reach. Hardly their fault if you just didn't put in enough effort.

terryw

The whole benefits system is a right mess. But it is unfair to castigate those who use the system to their own advantage. We can only hope that Frank Field is given some free rein!

AMILLIONDOLLARS

Wee_Willy_Harris wrote: »

Steady on there.

LHA rates are set at the AVERAGE rent for a suitable property for a specific family size. Note AVERAGE. How the recipient should choose to use that amount is entirely up to them (as it is with everyone else). In many cases, landlords have cottoned on to this and will vary the amount charged according to the family size. So, greedy landlords play a part as well as "chav" tenants. As for your comment about working? You don't have to be unemployed to claim LHA. ANY large family on a low(ish) wage may qualify for assistance, particularly in high rent areas. I appreciate this doesn't fit in with your desire, I assume, to ghettoise sections of the community, but we are supposed to be in a fair society.

The system is fairer to those who don't work then to those who do!! I didn't vote for them, but will be very interested to see what this new Government comes up with?

AMD

AMILLIONDOLLARS

Wee_Willy_Harris wrote: »

Clearly you just didn't work hard enough to live in a VERY nice area, which would be out of any familys LHA reach. Hardly their fault if you just didn't put in enough effort.

Houses in my area fetch 400k plus, looks like I should have been a banker:D:D

AMD

Wee_Willy_Harris

AMILLIONDOLLARS wrote: »

The system is fairer to those who don't work then to those who do!! I didn't vote for them, but will be very interested to see what this new Government comes up with?

AMD

Can't help but notice, on another thread of yours, that you bought your current home about a year ago from a HA. So, it was either an outright purchase of a HA property, ie social housing, and now you're surprised to have tenants next door.... OR it was a subsidised purchase (key worker/part rent, part buy etc) in which case you are getting your slice of the cake but want to deny others their slice? You can't have your slice of cake AND eat it!

Wee_Willy_Harris

AMILLIONDOLLARS wrote: »

Houses in my area fetch 400k plus, looks like I should have been a banker:D:D

AMD

Not yours though... huh?