Housing Benefit under occupancy Help

nannytone_2

in really at the point of not coping. i gave an existance and nothing more.
and that is being taken away.

im fully aware that im of no importance to anyone

lighting_up_the_chalice

Morlock wrote: »

Yes, because in her area, two-bedroom, social housing properties are not in such demand, therefore single people are allocated two-bedroom properties where one-bedroom properties are not available. This is also why occasionally, shared care parents are allocated an extra room, they have no entitlement to that room, housing stock dictates that they are fortunate.

Ummmmm ........

Morlock wrote: »

Absolute rubbish. Shared parenting is not taken in to consideration when allocating social housing, there can only be one official parent with care. I challenge you to produce one housing policy in the UK which considers shared care parenting as a reason to award an extra room to an otherwise single person.

mazza111

lighting_up_the_chalice wrote: »

I'd be glad to help if you just let me know where your local area is?

No thanks. I've already told you how many private rent 1 bedrooms are available in this area. 7 in total. How many there will be when I find myself in this situation I have no idea. I do not know what the future will bring. I'm not in receipt of HB btw. But I maybe in the future.

Dunroamin wrote: »

With a 16 year old child at home, I don't understand why you're personally worried about the changes.

Regarding your last sentence, why would a single person or couple with no children living at home be a priority for social housing anyway, unless there's a disability involved?

Well I am trying to look to the future, I'm pretty sure the lad will move in with his gf/wife/whatever at one point in time. I'm not worried about me as such as others who may find themselves in this situation. If there aren't 1 bedroom properties available... I just don't see how they can get out of it. A single person wouldn't get priority for social housing, but if they are already in social housing, they are expected to give up a secure tenancy and jump foot first into the unknown.

Even people who find themselves on the homeless list are given priority, given the amount of 1 bed social housing in the area, they are often given 2 bed properties. These may be young vulnerable adults who are on very basic money (£56 - 71/week). I know this to be fact as I used to work in sheltered housing and we let some of our 2 bedroom flats to homeless people too.

Dunroamin wrote: »

Mazza has seemed to be concerned for herself, which is why I used the word "personally". I'm thinking about people who will be affected by the changes and I am happy that so many families with young children may now be able to bring them up with some degree of security.

You know very little as to whether I'm" fortunate" or not but, as you seem to think a mobility scooter is all someone with emphysema needs for their life to be better than yours, I feel that we may be using the word in quite different ways.

Nah, not concerned with myself. More other people, just used me as an example. In all honesty, I can't see me getting much better, so will probably in all likelihood need to claim HB v soon.

A disability is a disability, no matter what it is, each person may cope differently. I don't see it as one is better off than the other. I just think nannytone thought it may be easier for the person with the scooter to get about rather than that person being better off.

I'll come back to later posts later, cramping up atm

lighting_up_the_chalice

nixe wrote: »

it will pay for 3 bedrooms although all bedrooms are used,
its about how this is a great idea to attack the poor and disabled,
families etc, to break up communties by forcing people who cant afford this tax to move and those who cant find a one or two bedroomed flat into more povity than they are already in.
crime is going to go up but i take it in your ivory tower
it will not affect you.

I do not know what point you are trying to make. You say there are no 1 bed Social Housing properties near you, and I find them. Then you say it's 2 beds in short supply, so I find them as well. Now it's a 3 bed you want. Well YOU go and find it. It's you who will have to pay an extra few quid for that spare room if you don't.

Seems to me you are trying to gerrymander your household into the most difficult to house shape you can out of sheer bloody-mindedness.

Morlock

lighting_up_the_chalice wrote: »

Ummmmm ........

Your point?

nixe

Dunroamin wrote: »

You've already said what a run down area Wythenshawe is - surely any caring parent would want their children to live somewhere better

it is rundown compared to halebarns and chedle mosside etc.
only had about 6 shootings and 8 murders all with in a five min
walk from me in the last 3 years
if i moved it could be worse.

lighting_up_the_chalice

Morlock wrote: »

Your point?

You're contradicting yourself, dear boy.

lighting_up_the_chalice

nixe wrote: »

it is rundown compared to halebarns and chedle mosside etc.
only had about 6 shootings and 8 murders all with in a five min
walk from me in the last 3 years
if i moved it could be worse.

Probability dictates that it's more likely to be better.

Morlock

lighting_up_the_chalice wrote: »

You're contradicting yourself, dear boy.

No, I have not contradicted anything, thanks.

lighting_up_the_chalice

Morlock wrote: »

No, I have not contradicted anything, thanks.

How would you describe it then.....

Morlock wrote: »

Shared parenting is not taken in to consideration when allocating social housing,

Morlock wrote: »

This is also why occasionally, shared care parents are allocated an extra room,