Council move, not entitled to HB and running up huge debts!

charlieismydarling

Sounds as if you need to cut your losses and either rent privately or buy. You have a very healthy income and do not really need social housing. Who knows where they would rehouse you anyway. It could be worse.


Buying your own property is much more secure. As for the pets, £400 a month is ludicrous if you are looking for housing benefit to which you are not entitled because you earn too much.

Gandalfthegrey

The police and the council must think that your family are in a lot of danger otherwise they wouldnt have put you into this type of accommodation surely?
I know that if I was being harrassed and threatened, having 2 young children, I would gladly pay for the extra protection they have given you.
If you arent in that amount of danger then perhaps you could have stayed? but I do not know the full situation you were in.
Also if I didnt need the extra protection because it isnt as bad as the police think then I would be taking that up with the police/council as it seems a bit OTT and the temp accommodation you are in could be given to people who really need protection.
Could you speak to a solicitor?

AimeesMum_2

Aaron's Mummy - Why should I not be entitled to a council house. I was in a bad situation before living off benefits and got my council house which I have now lost through no fault of my own. So because I worked two jobs while studying full time with a 2yr old and a baby on the way and now have a £27,000 a year that deems me too rich to have a council house. I worked my !!!! off for the last 4 yrs to provide a better life for my kids when everyone else said that cause I got pregnant at 18 that I would make nothing of myself. You can never win with people like you.

charlieismydarling

It is more a case of what you do now though isn't it. You have your council house, although you can't for one reason or another live in it.

So do you

1. Wait it out and see what you are rehoused in. With this you have esrablished that you have to cover the very high rent until that happens.

2. Rent privately until you are rehoused as you keep your homeless housing points.

3. Cut your losses and rent privately.

4. buy.

There isn't any point in bemoaning the fact that your situation is unfair. It is what it is. That,s life. You have a decent income and that is a lot more than others in your situation often have.

You could try the legal route. For some reason you have declined to discuss that. That is your choice. But there is a lot that you could be doing in that area.

tomitma

For Christ's sake, stop bloody moaning, reading through the other posts you have made, everything that has happened to you, right through out is someone elses fault, either through bad advice, or there not understanding you, you will be at least a £1000 pounds better off instantly, if you rent your own house, and get rid of the dogs, the dogs at the moment are taking up too much money.

If you do ever get another council house, remember the rules are changing, that you may have to sign an new agreement, where you are only leasing the house for a certain period, maybe only five years, also on the wages you are receiving you may not even get a tenancy for the five years, stop moaning, and get off your ars" and take over your own life. Stop blaming other people for the mess that YOU are in.

lauzellen

I think Aarons Mummy's point is that you no longer require the social housing as you are now in a good position financially so rent privately like most others do and leave the social housing for people who really need it like you did when you originally got your council house... IF everyone with as high an income as you were in the council houses when YOU needed one previously i'm sure your view would be very different.

You have not addressed my point about taking up Virgin if in temporary housing and also so strained financially

AimeesMum_2

Need the internet and phone for working from home and we don't get any kind of signal on the house without an external arial installed. Virgin was the cheapest option

charlieismydarling

Aren't you on maternity leave? Truly confused now.

lauzellen

Then getting the cheapest bundle avaliable rather than the biggest and most expensive when financially stretched would have been the sensible option surely?

Oldernotwiser

AimeesMum wrote: »

The inheritance is mostly for my kids. And the rest is pretty much already spent on a memorial plot for my children's gran and a wheelchair for my mother - I am going to have to use some of it to keep me off work for a little while longer too as I can't go back yet and due to some issues have messed up my SMP.

Surely a deposit for a secure home would be the best thing that you could do for your children? Buying a wheelchair need cost only a small amount and I'm afraid that I think that the needs of the living come before those of the dead.

You would be crazy to waste your inheritance like this when you have a good income, live in a cheap area and could buy your own home when you have a deposit available..