Having problems downsizing.

lighting_up_the_chalice

moneyistooshorttomention wrote: »

I get where you are coming from - but actually to a woman of 60 we will usually be regarding ourselves as being retirement age (even if we have had to carry on working).

She was just 72 when this was filmed!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rdFnCRUvxOs

moneyistooshorttomention

lighting_up_the_chalice wrote: »

She was just 72 when this was filmed!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rdFnCRUvxOs

Good on her for that:T

I think there is probably somewhat of a difference between someone doing a "career" that they love on the one hand and someone who has had to do a "job" for a living on the other hand though.

I thoroughly admire people who are "out and about and Living Life To The Full" at that age and do hope to be one of them myself personally. But some of us need releasing from the chains of work because our health isnt up to it any more (as may possibly be the case with OP) on the one hand or because we need to be free to Get On With Our Lives and are hoping to achieve one or two more things yet to mark our time here and Achieve Something and will have a much better chance of doing so if not having to "do a job" just for the sake of income to live on.

hoo

:DHiya,
Just a thought but have you considered sheltered accomodation? There are some really nice places around the country within complexes and small communities and with a really young and positive outlook on senior life; it's not all blue rinse brigade you know!!

Morlock

mandiskem wrote: »

i moved from a 3 bed house into a 1 bedroom bungalow due to health issues i have read on a website that bedroom tax doesnt apply to those of 60 and over

When bedroom tax is introduced in April 2013 it will not affect individuals/couples if one tenant is over State Pension Credit age.

However, when Universal Credit is introduced, both individuals and couples will need to be of pensionable age to remain unaffected. If one member of a couple is already in receipt of Pension Credit, that couple will also be unaffected.

Those not in receipt of Pension Credit will need to be of pensionable age to be exempt.

oliveoil99

mandiskem wrote: »

i moved from a 3 bed house into a 1 bedroom bungalow due to health issues i have read on a website that bedroom tax doesnt apply to those of 60 and over

When I moved into this property 5 years ago my son and daughter were with me we were all working with no need for LHA my son left and bought a property with his partner and her child and they went on to have a child together, then I lost my job as a housekeeper in a doctors surgery when it moved to a health centre which already had a housekeeper, then my daughter left to live with her fiancee so as circumstances changed it became necessary for me to claim LHA. They only pay for the bedroom rate deemed needed (single woman) one bedroom so the shortfall has tobe paid by me and as the shortfall is nearly half my income the property has become (bobbing along) expence. I have coped by living very frugal and help from the family so I think myself very lucky. In the long term things have got to change and I will be the one to do it.

oliveoil99

hoo wrote: »

:DHiya,
Just a thought but have you considered sheltered accomodation? There are some really nice places around the country within complexes and small communities and with a really young and positive outlook on senior life; it's not all blue rinse brigade you know!!

Yes have bidded on some sheltered but never been successful your not told why assuming because I don't have health issues and would not need the services provided and others that bid do that's all I can think. Also alot of sheltered places have charges that are not covered by HB and they can be as much as the rent if they have wardens, 24 hr helplines etc so I stopped bidding on them.

oliveoil99

mandiskem wrote: »

i moved from a 3 bed house into a 1 bedroom bungalow due to health issues i have read on a website that bedroom tax doesnt apply to those of 60 and over

It's pension-credit age which is when I'm 62 - 1 month and 25 days, all the way through my working life thought it would be my 60th birthday until April 2010 when the change began, both my late husbands died at age 56 my fault for marrying older men was always going tobe a younger widow if they died relatively young.

mandiskem

id get in touch with your local mp for help . also get ur name down on as many housing assoc as u can for ur area my godmother went into sheltered housing shes 66 and got no health issues either you shouldnt have to go into shared accomodation you should be entitled to a 1 bedroom place are you in private renting

oliveoil99

oliveoil99 wrote: »

You are so kind thank-you. I'm going to do an outside reccy of some properties to-day as my son is here with the car, you can tell alot by the windows and the garden before I get to look in the inside. Also the surrounding area and I'm not to shy to knock on either side to ask about the area.

OMG if that is what the state of properties in my city is going tobe like I'm going to have some searching to do, grilled-up windows and doors, half boarded up windows and a recently smashed in front door, armchair and shopping trolley in the front garden and this was just looking at the outside of 3 properties and the worse part a menacing man asking 'what ya looking at'?

mandiskem

i relocated from lancashire to cheshire took me 5 weeks to move thing is the ones that have a low bid on them would prob be the worst areas where housing assoc and councils have trouble letting the places cant u move to a surrounding area outside where you live now to better place i know low moor was nice when i went to see a man there