Under 25 housing benefit

thorsoak

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pqrdef wrote: »

What if they get married?

Then maybe, they go back to the old-fashioned way that we (now in late 60s/early 70s) did - they SAVE UP - ie don't spend money on anything bar essentials - until they have enough money to be able to make a home together - whether it be rented or not.

It's an innovative idea .............:D:p

ukcarper

HappyMJ wrote: »

I've said before it is unlikely that anyone working full time and under 35 will get any help towards housing costs as HB for a shared room averages out at about £60 a week.

That's ok if you can find a room for £60 and a full time job which might not be as easy as you think.

HAMISH_MCTAVISH

There aren't enough houses anyway, so it's probably inevitable that less people will be given housing benefits, and more people forced to live with family or otherwise share.

dori2o

Are you aware that over 90% of new housing benefit claims are from working people?

CKhalvashi

dori2o wrote: »

Are you aware that over 90% of new housing benefit claims are from working people?

This is very true

I volunteer a large amount of my spare time to deal with housing matters, and some of the posts are further from the point than they could imagine.

What do you do in a situation where we have a disabled 18yr old, been passed between family members from the age of 16, neither parent wants them, family don't want them, so they're forced to pluck up the courage to speak to someone in the council after over a year on the streets at serious jeopardy to their health.

This person is not employable at this time, not because they never have been, but because their head has been so f***ed up by the way they've been treated and thinking that noone cares.

I think that I'd have been in the same position emotionally at 19, or does anyone else not see that there is never going to be a single solution to the problem?

Yes, I'm for means resting benefits, but for the average property with 2 NMW workers on board, they're no better of working than on the benefits system because of how it's (stupidly) structured to take 98% of the first £500/wk, assuming 2 children.

CK

pqrdef

HAMISH_MCTAVISH wrote: »

There aren't enough houses anyway

You don't get it. The idea is to reclassify park benches as homes, on the grounds that so many people will be choosing to sleep on them. Housing shortage solved at a stroke.

animalhouse

David Cameron talks about a culture of entitlement....will that be his tax dodging friends, or those companies who feel entitled to use free labour under Workfare, or the banks?

silvercar

Seems the motive is reasonable, to put those who make a career of lifetime benefit claiming on the same footing as workers.

In the same way that changing the HB rules so that younger claimants were expected to live in a shared house rather than a place of their own, exactly as workers do when their earning mean they can't afford to rent their own places. Now the thought is that young workers live at home to save up money before they start out on their own, so that claimants can do to.

grandma247

My 22 year old Son could not get a job where we live so he started a gardening business with my SIL who also could not get a job. Unfortunately because of the area we live in and the economy there was not enough work to keep the two of them so Ds got a job 50 miles away. It is shift work and varies on a daily basis ,public transport is not good enough as there were big gaps in service so he would not be able to use it and he does not drive. I would have taken him myself but my life would then be on hold and I have a younger son to think of.
Fortunately he has found lodgings a few steps from his work but what if he hadn't? At least he got on his bike so to speak and got work.

Where we live there are plenty of shiftless, lazy ratbags who have no intention of working and spend their days with a can in their hands annoying neighbours and making extra work for the police.

PasturesNew

When I was younger, it was common for young people to share a bedroom with a friend/stranger, or live in their car. When you saw this being the norm you tended to stay with your parents/put up with their shiite because of the alternatives. If we'd have thought we could walk into a shared house, or flat, paid for, we'd have all been at it .... like this lot are. Benefits weren't as generous back then + there wasn't the access to information (forums, internet, etc) like there now is .... so you "put up/shut up" with your current inadequate situation and just muddled through and accepted it all as "the way things worked".