MSE News: Council tax benefit could drop 20%

bogwart

DaisyFlower wrote: »

I think its a good idea, its a bill at the end of the day so why should people get it subsidised in the first place. Making those on benefits pay part of it will mean less choose a life on benefits as the system wont be as cushy.

You are an examplar of empathy and human warmth. If you really believe that existing on benefits is cushy then try it yourself and we'll see how quickly you change your tone.

Take it to the Daily Mail. They love your kind of human being.

Morglin

From what I've read about this 'proposal', which isn't a lot, it appears that elderly and disabled will be exempt from any changes to their entitlement, and councils will have to factor this in.

It's also not going to introduced during this parliament, apparantly?

But, I have also read somewhere else that the whole idea had been dropped anyway as too complicated and expensive to administer.

I don't think there's enough info about, at the moment, to make much comment.

Lin

lesperkl

Being a bradford council tenant i have recieved the following in a leaflet

Council tax recipients with 1 spare bedroom
Tax benefit reduced by 10 %
2 spare bedrooms triggers a 25 % reduction

rogerblack

lesperkl wrote: »

Being a bradford council tenant i have recieved the following in a leaflet

Council tax recipients with 1 spare bedroom
Tax benefit reduced by 10 %
2 spare bedrooms triggers a 25 % reduction

This is a separate and already existing reduction for people with properties that are 'too large' for them, and has nothing to do with the above proposal.

frank_begbie

bogwart wrote: »

You are an examplar of empathy and human warmth. If you really believe that existing on benefits is cushy then try it yourself and we'll see how quickly you change your tone.

Take it to the Daily Mail. They love your kind of human being.

Well said mate.

When MPs start to look at ways of saving money amongst themselves, and stop just picking on the poor and defenceless, I might start to take them seriously.

"We're all in this together", if only that were true?

amanda6216

DaisyFlower wrote: »

I think its a good idea, its a bill at the end of the day so why should people get it subsidised in the first place. Making those on benefits pay part of it will mean less choose a life on benefits as the system wont be as cushy.

I would love to know how living on benefits is cushy as alot seem to think its not at all!! ive worked since i was 14 up until april last year. ive had to scrimp and scrape by on esa. As i was a manager i was earning nearly £20,000 a year to drop to £51 a week from nearly £400 is hard really hard!! not my choice that my hip gave in on me while i was at work and now need surgery!! i agree there is some out there that do take the benefit system for granted but you cant tar us all with the same brush. im itching to go back to work infact i cant wait so i hope im all fixed and never have to go on benefits again!!:D

dodger1

amanda6216 wrote: »

I would love to know how living on benefits is cushy as alot seem to think its not at all!! ive worked since i was 14 up until april last year. ive had to scrimp and scrape by on esa. As i was a manager i was earning nearly £20,000 a year to drop to £51 a week from nearly £400 is hard really hard!! not my choice that my hip gave in on me while i was at work and now need surgery!! i agree there is some out there that do take the benefit system for granted but you cant tar us all with the same brush. im itching to go back to work infact i cant wait so i hope im all fixed and never have to go on benefits again!!:D

Some people are better off on benefits and some are not, it's the luck of the draw. I was made redundant aged 60 and with LHA, concil tax benefit and pension credit I'm better off now, not much but definitely better. So for me living off benefits is without doubt cushy.