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Any advice my council turn me down ?

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  • As others have said, why on earth are you having a baby if you can't afford to house the baby properly.

    It is your responsibility to provide for the child, not the council's.

    Do you have any family who can help out?
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  • Oldernotwiser
    Oldernotwiser Posts: 37,425 Forumite
    welington wrote: »
    Im going to rent one bedroom flat 750 pounds /month rent but private landlord asked 1500pounds deposit . I don't have this money now . Can i apply to crisis loan? Can be qualify to crisis loan as im working? Welcome any advice

    You cannot afford to rent a flat costing £750 pm if you're only earning £13,000.
  • You cannot afford to rent a flat costing £750 pm if you're only earning £13,000.

    Absolutely! My wage is treble that and our rent is £750 and I struggle!
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  • viktory
    viktory Posts: 7,635 Forumite
    He's not asking for English lessons or assistance with sentence construction!

    Nonetheless a clear, concise, well written post helps enormously. Far more people are likely to read and offer help if they can actually understand the OP. Good sentence construction, spelling and punctuation are vital to fully understanding all the points.

    While I am on the subject, cutting out the unnecessary crap is also useful. (I am sure we have all read posts where someone waffles on about Aunty Mabel and her piles, when actually the post is about Uncle John and his JSA).
  • Emmzi
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    If I am reading this right, OP is in a studio flat. His wife feels nauseous when he cooks.

    Try
    a) reapplying for a move when baby is actually here - you won't be looked at for as bigger place until there are more of you
    b) not cooking stinky food. 3 months on sandwiches won't kill you.
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  • viktory wrote: »
    Nonetheless a clear, concise, well written post helps enormously. Far more people are likely to read and offer help if they can actually understand the OP. Good sentence construction, spelling and punctuation are vital to fully understanding all the points.
    QUOTE]

    Of course it helps. Unfortunately not everyone has English as a first language and a college/university education and, horror of horrors, there are some people out there with special needs or dyslexia to cope with. Any or all of the above are my first presumption with an initial post such as this and I have a little empathy for the poster. Textspeak is unforgivable in my opinion, but not speaking or writing English perfectly is not.
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  • viktory
    viktory Posts: 7,635 Forumite
    Of course it helps. Unfortunately not everyone has English as a first language and a college/university education and, horror of horrors, there are some people out there with special needs or dyslexia to cope with. Any or all of the above are my first presumption with an initial post such as this and I have a little empathy for the poster. Textspeak is unforgivable in my opinion, but not speaking or writing English perfectly is not.

    Agreed. Which is why I suggested that the OP ask someone to proof read their posts for clarity as English is clearly not their first language.
  • relic
    relic Posts: 2,153 Forumite
    viktory wrote: »
    Nonetheless a clear, concise, well written post helps enormously. Far more people are likely to read and offer help if they can actually understand the OP. Good sentence construction, spelling and punctuation are vital to fully understanding all the points.
    QUOTE]

    Of course it helps. Unfortunately not everyone has English as a first language and a college/university education and, horror of horrors, there are some people out there with special needs or dyslexia to cope with. Any or all of the above are my first presumption with an initial post such as this and I have a little empathy for the poster. Textspeak is unforgivable in my opinion, but not speaking or writing English perfectly is not.

    Or - the more obvious thing, he is a troll.

    The way his posts are written have obvious trademarks of someone who can write in English perfectly well, but obviously putting on this "foreign" way of writing.
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  • viktory wrote: »
    Agreed. Which is why I suggested that the OP ask someone to proof read their posts for clarity as English is clearly not their first language.

    Maybe they don't have someone in their house, sat at the computer with them, who can check their posts! Maybe it's also a private matter for him that he doesn't actually want to broadcast to his friends. If the man's girlfriend is here on a visa it's quite likely she doesn't have English as a first language either! I'm getting very fed up of anyone who can't construct a sentence perfectly being labelled as stupid or a troll. These are public forums, available to everyone, whatever their level of education. :mad:
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  • Blobby8_2
    Blobby8_2 Posts: 2,009 Forumite
    Obviously a wind up but hey ho I'll play.
    You chose to live in a sh1tehole in an expensive city, where you earn NMW, you further chose to bring in a foreign wife who you got pregnant and who refuses to work. You appear to have it in your mind that the taxpayer will somehow be digging you out of the hole you have dug for yourself ?
    I know not what your trade/qualifications are, but you can earn NMW anywhere in the country, so I suggest as soon as you get paid you pack a couple of bags and high tail it to a provincial town (probably beginning with B or L) where you will be able to rent a two bed property for less than you are paying now.
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