make do and mend for tougher times

kidcat

Wow PAH I knew it was bad but that brings new meaning to the word

smileyt_2

kidcat wrote: »

WCS - its so worrying, I wonder what all these people will do, will they simply fall into arrears. And if they do can the HA/evict them?

I know that a private LL can evict for rent arrears but can a social LL? Will they not have a responsibilty to rehouse them if they evict them.

Will there at least be a period whereby if you put in for a smaller house you are exempt while you wait for one to become available?

It all seems so wrong is there no common sense any more?

Kidcat no-one knows what will happen. HA will try to evict tenants in arrears. Mine has said it will have no choice as it has to make ends meet to provide a service for all the other tenants, although it will do its best to help people in arrears and will try to help them move to smaller properties if possible.

There is a slight possibility that the courts will refuse to play ball about evicting people who are in arrears through no fault of their own but because of government policies. I think there would have to be a test case in the High Court (?) for this to happen. I pray to God it does as apart from rioting I can't see any other way to stop this all happening.

Oh just give me five minutes alone in a room with David Ca-moron and a baseball bat and I will die a happy woman.

Popperwell

Kidcat,
Basically that was it...If you had 4 members in a house and everyone was over 18 years of age everyone had to pay the charge so if they said the charge was £465 annually for your home, you each had to find £465 so one house had to find £1,860.

The CT on my property is around £1,300(I think as it stands)so it will depend what I am expected to pay as my share of that, BT would be £1,352 annually, what I am given regarding HA. Then DLA is being scrapped and the replacement is 20% less and if that is withdrawn totally after an assessment that's a lot to lose but if it continues I lose approx £1,400 So that's quite a drop in income. Then I will have to pay some contribution towards rent(usually you have to pay water rates)

Then none of us know who will be on JSA or one of the ESA schemes...

From what I see those who are not claiming from the State are also in for a surprise and will have more taken off them...

Be more like it if the Lib Dems and labour voted against these changes but it looks like they've been passed already and ignored by the media and were being played as suckers by our support and cheering of the Olympics.

Wish I was a pensioner(and I don't mean that in a nasty way)
but I have officially 12 years of working age and if they keep putting it back even longer...and chnaces are even then many of us will be looking for work when we should be retired.

http://hbhelp.co.uk/theangryclaimant/?p=62

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2184235/Labour-blasts-coalition-plans-cut-council-tax-benefit-warn-Poll-Tax-style-suffering.html

The Lib Dems had their priorities wrong going on about the Lord's Reform and instead of saying they won't support the boundery changes as a protest they should be getting into stopping these changes at least The House Of Lords did try to compromise or stop the bedroom tax and various other ideas regarding the benefit system but on numbers alone and using clever political footwork they have all but gone through unopposed.:mad::eek::(

Angel_Jenny

I really don't understand the Council Tax changes but they sound so scary!

Will it impact on everyone or is it targeted at certain groups? Like those people on benefits?

kidcat

angel Jenny it will impact anyone who does not pay full council tax, this includes single occupiers, our council is planning on reducing single person discount. But in Byatts they appear to be doing away with it entirely if I read correctly.

smileyt_2

I HATE THIS GOVERNMENT. Despicable, greedy and utterly immoral.

Sorry. I'm having 'a moment'.

I'm going to read my Harry Potter book now.

craigywv

excuse my ignorance, but what is council tax is it what we call rates in Northern Ireland? i find it shocking that if thats what it is people on benifits will be paying towards them, how can they when they get so little to begin with, sorry if i offend anyone but i really dont know what it is.

Angel_Jenny

kidcat wrote: »

angel Jenny it will impact anyone who does not pay full council tax, this includes single occupiers, our council is planning on reducing single person discount. But in Byatts they appear to be doing away with it entirely if I read correctly.

Wow! That will affect a lot of people!

I hadn't heard anyone mention it at work or anywhere. I will have to mention it as there are some that do not pay full council tax.

We do as there are 4 adults in the house (2 working / 1 full time carer / 1 unable to work).

I wonder how many people are aware of it!

kidcat

craigy - I think so, it used to be rates here I think but then came poll tax and now council tax

Angel jenny - alot of people seem unaware

The difficulty is that each council has to make their own rules, so that its not going to be universal any more, it will make it much more difficult to be able to calculate entitlement and for welfare rights advisors its going to be an absolute nightmare

smileyt_2

craigywv wrote: »

excuse my ignorance, but what is council tax is it what we call rates in Northern Ireland? i find it shocking that if thats what it is people on benifits will be paying towards them, how can they when they get so little to begin with, sorry if i offend anyone but i really dont know what it is.

I think so. It replaced Poll Tax which as far as I'm aware replaced the old rates.

I really feel as if I'm about to explode. (But not at you craigywv!)