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Housing benefit and renting??

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  • AMILLIONDOLLARS
    AMILLIONDOLLARS Posts: 2,299 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Combo Breaker
    Of course I forgive you.

    Well that's a load off my mind, I can sleep safely tonight, clutching my copy of the Daily Mail, mind it will be a bit crowded with me, socrates and my partner, but don't worry we'll try to sponge off the council for a bit more accomodation tomorrow!!!

    AMD
    Debt Free!!!
  • Wee_Willy_Harris
    Wee_Willy_Harris Posts: 7,512 Forumite
    Well that's a load off my mind, I can sleep safely tonight, clutching my copy of the Daily Mail, mind it will be a bit crowded with me, socrates and my partner, but don't worry we'll try to sponge off the council for a bit more accomodation tomorrow!!!

    AMD

    Well, after the assistance you gave your nephew, at least you know the rules!

    Being serious for just a moment. Apart from the fact that they don't work, you don't really know anything about this family or the circumstances which have lead to their current position. You've stated elsewhere that you wanted to assist your (at the time) workless, unmarried, single parent family nephew. Now, I'm pretty sure there is a story behind your nephew which would, I'm sure, mitigate the title I have just given him. Could it not be possible that there is an equaly mitigating story behind this family?
  • clutton_2
    clutton_2 Posts: 11,149 Forumite
    what a thoroughly childish, name-calling load of silliness...

    MSE is not for this sort of nonsense...

    please stop - both of you
  • Wee_Willy_Harris
    Wee_Willy_Harris Posts: 7,512 Forumite
    clutton wrote: »
    what a thoroughly childish, name-calling load of silliness...

    MSE is not for this sort of nonsense...

    please stop - both of you

    He started it!
  • terryw
    terryw Posts: 4,396 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Photogenic Combo Breaker
    Both of you should be ashamed of yourselves. I am leaving this thread.

    Many people come here for MSE advice, not read playground insults.
    "If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken
    Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools"
    Extract from "If" by Rudyard Kipling
  • Wee_Willy_Harris
    Wee_Willy_Harris Posts: 7,512 Forumite
    terryw wrote: »
    Both of you should be ashamed of yourselves. I am leaving this thread.

    Many people come here for MSE advice, not read playground insults.

    To be fair, we've touched on....

    LHA (advantages and disadvantages)
    Private renting
    Surrey house prices
    Nuisance neighbours
    Key worker subsidies (or not)
    Greedy landlords (or not)
    Social housing allocation
    Parental support
    Class prejudice
    American motorhomes
    Family sizes
    Risk assessing non payment of rent
    Privacy
    and
    Inheritance

    I think that's pretty good, when compared to threads I've read about grass poking out of a cats [STRIKE]ars[/STRIKE]...bum.
  • clutton_2
    clutton_2 Posts: 11,149 Forumite
    willy - go to bed and shut up - then in the morning come back and apologise to OP - [EMAIL="YO@U"]YOU[/EMAIL] are half of the problem
  • clutton wrote: »
    willy - go to bed and shut up - then in the morning come back and apologise to OP - YOU are half of the problem

    Only half? Must be losing my touch... Maybe it is time for bed after all.... lol
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