starting to think it wasn't worth it

pinkteapot

illgetthere wrote: »

I am not rich but live well

You won't if you live off the state.

amcluesent

>I think i played this all wrong<

Yep. A few £ in savings and your can wave goodbye to elder health care until they've taken and sold all your assets. Anyone on CB, IB, JSA, HB, AA, CA is laughing at you, slogging away to be bled white in taxes to pay for their plasma tellies.

sjaypink

Right, let me try and explain this as simply as possible....

If you are a council tenant you still have to pay rent, council tax, prescriptions 'an loads more' etc

So, you've been happily taking taxpayers money in the form of housing benefit from your non-working (or low earning) tenants for your own profit....

...or you're speaking rubbish about what you presume to be 'the perks' that come with living in social housing.

Either way, wind your neck in

PasturesNew

Council rents wherever I've lived have always been about half of private rents.

One anomaly where I am now is that council 1-beds seem to have higher rents than council 3-beds.

If you're where you want to be and in a good council house/area, then you're sorted for life. That cheap rent really makes a difference on low pay as you pocket an extra £300-400/month over somebody you're working alongside who is renting privately.

The trouble is .... you can't get your hands on a council place

1984ReturnsForReal_2

PasturesNew wrote: »

Council rents wherever I've lived have always been about half of private rents.

That is not the case with new tenants. They amended the rates so new people pay more.

Davesnave

illgetthere wrote: »

I think i played this all wrong... !

In the words of the old blues song:
"Life is hard, and then you die."

RenovationMan

What I find interesting about these sorts of benefit knocking threads are the fact that the people who start them have never lived on a council estate and sampled the paradise that lies therein.

Graham_Devon

1984ReturnsForReal wrote: »

That is not the case with new tenants. They amended the rates so new people pay more.

Any idea why they didnt do this for existing tenants?

Just think of the money it could raise, instead of closing down services while in the meantime, sheltering people who have had cheap rent for ages, from paying normal rent.

I think it's worse to have some people paying more for the same services / house, than it is to simply put it up to a resonable level for everyone. Once again, those "haves" are protected, while the have nots coming along afterwards are having to pay their way.

Spark

If they had to do this for existing tenants, it would force people on low wages to go on the doll because they wouldn't be able to pay the new rent, prevent the ones on the doll to want to find a job because jobs nowadays are part time or offering low wages, therefore they wouldn't be able to pay the new rent if they accepted a low paid job, and the ones who could afford a private rent now would be able to afford the rent on their council property anyway, therefore if they didn't get out of their council property already, it's because they want to stay there.
What about lowering the rent on private properties?

Graham_Devon

Spark wrote: »

If they had to do this for existing tenants, it would force people on low wages to go on the doll because they wouldn't be able to pay the new rent, prevent the ones on the doll to want to find a job because jobs nowadays are part time or offering low wages, therefore they wouldn't be able to pay the new rent if they accepted a low paid job, and the ones who could afford a private rent now would be able to afford the rent on their council property anyway, therefore if they didn't get out of their council property already, it's because they want to stay there.
What about lowering the rent on private properties?

If they couldn't afford it, they would get housing benefit.

For all those who could afford it....of which there are many, theres no issue, apart from not liking it of course.