Housing Benefit capped at £400 a week!

Wee_Willy_Harris

When_is_the_reset? wrote: »

Maybe YOU are just being strange.

It is strange to suggest that being on the dole is to become average and therefore the norm.

So you want them all ghettoised into slums to make you feel better about your own inadequacies and inability to be more than mediocre?

Shakethedisease

From October 2011 Local Housing Allowance Rates will be set at the 30% percentile of local rates

It will affect all areas.

Wee_Willy_Harris

ILW wrote: »

A family do not "need" to live in a average property. By definition half of the population in any area live in below average. Why should claiments get better than roughly 50% of the people is a given area.

Of course, the real question is why SHOULDN'T they?

Bullfighter

C_Mababejive wrote: »

IMHO that figure is far too generous and there should be regionally adjusted maximums.

In one sentence, defend regional adjusted maximums.

HINT: Why should someone on housing benefit have any say at all as to where in the country they get free accommodation?

ILW

Wee_Willy_Harris wrote: »

So you want them all ghettoised into slums to make you feel better about your own inadequacies and inability to be more than mediocre?

So you think claimants should start half way up the ladder, as opposed to non claimants who start at the bottom. Odd thinking.

When_is_the_reset?

jenner wrote: »

because when the welfare state was developed, it was decided that it was based on need, not on ability to pay/incentive to work. we have a need based welfare state, if the public want a different type of welfare state, one that rewards those who can work/are intelligent/whatever, then they should make representation to their mp, but for now, the welfare state is not set up for that purpose, it never was

My personal experience shows that the people two doors down do not need the level of accomodation they currently have.

There are plently of cheaper houses around that would suit but the LHA seems to be happy to waste my money.

ILW

Wee_Willy_Harris wrote: »

Of course, the real question is why SHOULDN'T they?

Because they are not paying for it, but relying on others to. Simple as that.

bristol_pilot

Housing benefit was an absolute scandal under the Labour government - the limit was £1100 per WEEK until the budget today - that's £57,000 tax free. The £1100 limit was itself a reduction introduced in the final weeks of Labour. The new limit of £400 per week is, in my view, the best element of today's budget and a big step in the right direction. I look forward to a further 50% reduction in future budgets - might even write to George and suggest it.

ILW

Bullfighter wrote: »

HINT: Why should someone on housing benefit have any say at all as to where in the country they get free accommodation?

Why is that so difficult to understand. Seems obvious to me.

When_is_the_reset?

Wee_Willy_Harris wrote: »

So you want them all ghettoised into slums to make you feel better about your own inadequacies and inability to be more than mediocre?

It seems there is a contender for the King of the substance-free one-liners.

Everyone needs a hobby.