LHA gravy train still in full swing in London...

Jennifer_Jane

chewmylegoff wrote: »

so the answer to my question was "yes", as the govt has already acted, has already changed the situation going forwards so no new situations like this arise, and is in the process of changing the situation retrospectively.

I wonder why - yes, naively, I really wonder why Labour didn't address this (or, indeed, how it came into being).

This is genuine - I am a floating voter - although becoming less and less liberal as I go on, despite having had a Liberal Cabinet Minister for a Grand-Uncle.

Really2

Jennifer_Jane wrote: »

despite having had a Liberal Cabinet Minister for a Grand-Uncle.

Don't ask me why but the bold bit makes me think of the antiques roadshow?

This is a lovely example of a Liberal Cabinet Minister, been in the family for a few generations.:)

TedButler

Time will tell if they really bring in the £500 ben cap, this would be a huge change with dramatic consiquences.

They chickened out last time they were going to cut housing ben in April, if it goes ahead next year then look out for the burning police cars and looted shops before they have to move away from London.

Graham_Devon

TedButler wrote: »

Time will tell if they really bring in the £500 ben cap, this would be a huge change with dramatic consiquences.

They chickened out last time they were going to cut housing ben in April, if it goes ahead next year then look out for the burning police cars and looted shops before they have to move away from London.

Hopefully by that point, we'll be at a stage where we can say "right, you were getting another place, just in another location....now considering you have looted and commited arson you are not getting a place at all".

Or is that too harsh? <rolls eyes>

ukcarper

llubdlog wrote: »

If the £500 wk benefit cap does come in next year then thousands of housholds will be forced to move away from London. Or rents would have to be reduced to around £200 wk even for the big houses, because that is all a family can afford out of the £500 cap.

Rents will not fall that much stright away so the thousands of families will be forced to move somewhere cheaper.

More supply and less demand in London means lower rents and with them house prices. Lower prices in London means lower average price for the UK.

I'm not sure why you say £200 a week p someone on the average wage £25k takes home £372 a week and I would imagine a lot of people are paying rent of more than £72 a week and surviving.

FTBFun

TedButler wrote: »

Time will tell if they really bring in the £500 ben cap, this would be a huge change with dramatic consiquences.

They chickened out last time they were going to cut housing ben in April, if it goes ahead next year then look out for the burning police cars and looted shops before they have to move away from London.

Couldn't you just post under the one login on this thread please? Thanks.

Jennifer_Jane

Really2 wrote: »

Don't ask me why but the bold bit makes me think of the antiques roadshow?

This is a lovely example of a Liberal Cabinet Minister, been in the family for a few generations.:)

Haha! Yes, that's exactly right. The one famous person in our family - he's been 'handed down' as a role model. The next famous one (for one Sunday, anyway), was my father. When his ship returned from Korea, all the distinguished brave heroes were named in a double page spread in the Sunday Express. My father, a dental surgeon, was named as keeping morale up through his humour.

We were proud all the same.

Loughton_Monkey

Jennifer_Jane wrote: »

Haha! Yes, that's exactly right. The one famous person in our family - he's been 'handed down' as a role model. The next famous one (for one Sunday, anyway), was my father. When his ship returned from Korea, all the distinguished brave heroes were named in a double page spread in the Sunday Express. My father, a dental surgeon, was named as keeping morale up through his humour.

We were proud all the same.

Ah!

Used to go to 'Gloster Hill' every year to the commemoration of the battle of Imjin River. Quite a bloodbath there!

Never heard of the "Queen's own Molar Regiment", though.

neverdespairgirl

ILW wrote: »

I truly doubt that a non refugee family would be allowed to walk out of a place in Coventry and move into a very expensive place in London because they want to nearer their friends. They would be told they had made themselves intentionally homelsess and tld to sod off.
Or am I missing something.

You are missing something. "Intentionally homeless" is a label which is relevant to a council's duty to provide social housing to certain groups of people.

A claim for housing benefit or LHA has nothing to do with the "intentionally homeless" test.

Eskimo12345

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2026409/Saeed-Khaliif-Ingratitude-Somali-refugee-family-given-2m-London-home.html

This disgusts me, £8000 a month of taxpayers money to house a jobless family because they want to live in a specific area? Which government enabled this situation to be possible? Who championed the legislation for this? It also raises the age-old question of why people on benefits should be able to live in places that are out of reach of hard working folk - even out of reach of very well paid people. The most well paid person I know takes home £75k PA, yet the rent on this house is more than that a year.

I feel I should add a correction to the story - Gosford Green in Coventry is a hell-hole, I've been down there many times. I know of four friends who have been mugged there and hookers and gangs are all over the place. Still, better than Somalia, right?