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Under 25 housing benefit
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Child benefit is well past its sell-by date and should be abolished altogether. Bizarrely, the reason it's kept is that it's paid to people who don't need it. This is supposed to make them less resentful.Out,_Vile_Jelly wrote: »To my mind the most important proposal (remember these are just tasters for the the 2015 Tory Manifesto) is the limiting of child benefit to three offspring.
Those on benefit will get something else adjusted to compensate for the loss of child benefit. It's the squeezed middle that'll be squeezed again.Out,_Vile_Jelly wrote: »Economically and morally, a society that pays the unemployed to breed and penalises the working poor is going nowhere.
Be careful what you vote for, you might get it."It will take, five, 10, 15 years to get back to where we need to be. But it's no longer the individual banks that are in the wrong, it's the banking industry as a whole." - Steven Cooper, head of personal and business banking at Barclays, talking to Martin Lewis0 -
Define "family". Since living with parents is the new black, let's start with cases where daughter aged 13-25 has a kid while still living with one or both parents. Kid's father may or may not also be present. Couple may be estranged, shacked up, engaged, married, divorced, or remarried.Yes its called universal credit. Max 500 a week for any one family.
Is this going to work?"It will take, five, 10, 15 years to get back to where we need to be. But it's no longer the individual banks that are in the wrong, it's the banking industry as a whole." - Steven Cooper, head of personal and business banking at Barclays, talking to Martin Lewis0 -
The idea is not that they have to move back with parents but that they get a job and not get the state to pay their rent.
This has been on the cards for a while now with the benefit caps. Total caps of 500 per week per family will be hard for those with more than a few kids and want to live in a nice area. Well it will be impossible for them to live in London, they will have to live somewhere very cheap if they want to keep enough of there 500 after rent to feed all their kids.
I don’t know how many times it needs to be said but not all people claiming housing benefit are unemployed .0 -
I don’t know how many times it needs to be said but noT all people claiming housing benefit are unemployed .
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Only the other mth I phoned up my council/housing trust moaning about the fact I'm never going to get a home. Anyways the woman on the phone advised me if I want to move out that badly to contact the housing benefit people.
So out of interest I did, I gave them all my details, full time job amount I take home etc etc turns I can claim £150 a mth housing benefit, I said in passing oh well I suppose that will help with the C/tax to which I was informed there is a separate department for that and to call them.....:eek:
I was actually shocked that I can get £150 a mth housing benefit, I hasten to add I have not pursued this further, and am still saving to buy....Aspiring to be financially independent.... from my parents!0 -
Its a good question, does anyone know the answer? It just says 500 total cap to include everything per household. I would imagine if a daughter is living with her parent and she has a kid or 2, they all would only get max 500 so would not be able to afford to live in London. Even if it means her and her father leaving their low paid jobs and moving somewhere cheaper rent and being unemployed.
Who said they were? Look at my last post again, I said.......
Originally Posted by GMensler
The idea is not that they have to move back with parents but that they get a job and not get the state to pay their rent.
What does this mean0 -
Which part? The part about the government going to stop paying housing benefit to under 25s? They would rather the under 25s try and earn more to pay the rent themselves (like that is going to happen) or if not move back with parent.
That’s ok if they can earn more or move back with parents.0 -
Well if both parents are dead, then just have to move back to where they lived before they got housing benefit.
The UK is too soft, many countries have got 16 people living in an average sized house.
This is the way things are going for those on low incomes.
I don’t know how to respond to that . Do you really think people choose to rent a small room, sharing washing and cooking facilities with people they don’t know in preference to living with there parents for no good reason.0 -
This has been on the cards for a while now with the benefit caps. Total caps of 500 per week per family will be hard for those with more than a few kids and want to live in a nice area. Well it will be impossible for them to live in London, they will have to live somewhere very cheap if they want to keep enough of there 500 after rent to feed all their kids.
Will be difficult elsewhere as well when they introduce regional caps.'Just think for a moment what a prospect that is. A single market without barriers visible or invisible giving you direct and unhindered access to the purchasing power of over 300 million of the worlds wealthiest and most prosperous people' Margaret Thatcher0 -
Not going to work if they all get counted as one household, with a £500 cap for the lot.The UK is too soft, many countries have got 16 people living in an average sized house."It will take, five, 10, 15 years to get back to where we need to be. But it's no longer the individual banks that are in the wrong, it's the banking industry as a whole." - Steven Cooper, head of personal and business banking at Barclays, talking to Martin Lewis0 -
Why should their parents not charge them rent, as lodgers?They would rather the under 25s try and earn more to pay the rent themselves (like that is going to happen) or if not move back with parent.
Cameron is the one who likes to turn the clock back to the good old days. But among the working classes, which is what we're talking about, but which Cameron has zero knowledge of, it used to be entirely normal for school-leavers to get jobs, get paid, and hand over their wage packets when they got home. Unlike middle-class kids, they didn't get to sponge off their parents and treat their wages as pocket money."It will take, five, 10, 15 years to get back to where we need to be. But it's no longer the individual banks that are in the wrong, it's the banking industry as a whole." - Steven Cooper, head of personal and business banking at Barclays, talking to Martin Lewis0
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