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Housing benefit query

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  • GotToChange
    GotToChange Posts: 1,471 Forumite
    "The likes of the OP...................."

    What a terrible - inflammatory - expression to use, given the rest of your remarks.

    Not everyone rents by choice - some people get utterly shafted by a husband, rent short term, find themselves off the property ladder and priced out of the market - and stuck. And at the end of their tether.

    Be careful with individual attacks and hostile generalisations.
  • shellsuit
    shellsuit Posts: 24,749 Forumite
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    And some people actually rent because they want to! (Like me for starters)

    Shipshape, you're terribly rude.

    You chose to buy a house, whether or not your circumstances are different to when you bought it is no fault of the OP.
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  • i would love to buy a house but dont have the means to. people who own their own property are lucky. i dont think i will ever be able to :(
  • emweaver
    emweaver Posts: 8,419 Forumite
    edited 20 February 2011 at 8:21PM
    Well our rent is less than the ops, income around the same and we get £5 week HB so worth applying as every penny counts


    https://www.dwpe-services.direct.gov.uk/portal/page/portal/ba/lp?_piref278_36249_278_36248_36248.__ora_navig=action%3DgettingStarted%26pageno%3D2

    According to that link u could get working tax credit too
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