Bedroom Tax and kids living away??

nannytone_2

[i totally accept that what my DLA is for.
but how far can you stretch £40?
my rent and council tax will be £29 a week minimum.
i live 19 miles from the nrearest decrmy dizedf toe,/
as a disabled person, the extra benefot os supposed to give us a quality of life.
but the extra is taken up in expenses, so we have no more than someone on the basic rate of benefit.
this is our life.... forever.
sp pur fututre is made up of watching every pennym and being thankful for bwing kept a;obe.

thats no life,
we will see an anwful lot of people giving up/
i have 2 kids. both have families and neither get tax credits.
bever mind that i bought my kids up to be seld sufficient. i need help so im worthless/B]

lukieboy96

People have mentioned that family who are getting a new house built with six bedrooms, god knows how many kids she has1 She said it is her right and if she doesn't like it they will ask for another!!!

Maybe all of us who have an extra room should bombard our housing people and insist they build us the one bedroom property's!! Would it happen, of course not!

Also, what annoys me is people saying move into private accommodation. where do we get the deposit and guarantor from?

I agree with this in the long run but the government needs to sort out the housing. Maggie thatcher got rid of so much housing to those who brought but never built more.

Dunroamin

nannytone wrote: »

[i totally accept that what my DLA is for.
but how far can you stretch £40?
my rent and council tax will be £29 a week minimum.
i live 19 miles from the nrearest decrmy dizedf toe,/
as a disabled person, the extra benefot os supposed to give us a quality of life.
but the extra is taken up in expenses, so we have no more than someone on the basic rate of benefit.
this is our life.... forever.
sp pur fututre is made up of watching every pennym and being thankful for bwing kept a;obe.

thats no life,
we will see an anwful lot of people giving up/
i have 2 kids. both have families and neither get tax credits.
bever mind that i bought my kids up to be seld sufficient. i need help so im worthless/B]

Actually it isn't - it's intended to pay for your extra care or mobility needs.

nannytone_2

lukieboy96 wrote: »

People have mentioned that family who are getting a new house built with six bedrooms, god knows how many kids she has1 She said it is her right and if she doesn't like it they will ask for another!!!

Maybe all of us who have an extra room should bombard our housing people and insist they build us the one bedroom property's!! Would it happen, of course not!

Also, what annoys me is people saying move into private accommodation. where do we get the deposit and guarantor from?

I agree with this in the long run but the government needs to sort out the housing. Maggie thatcher got rid of so much housing to those who brought but never built more.

yjese stories are a;ways out there, andthey exist to court public outrage.

i dont doubt princessdon and dunroamins sentiments ,,, but they dont inhavit the same world as msny of us.
i have said many times that i agree with the sentiment of the bedroom tav. but the smaller properties arent avaialable. and £14 a week means a whole lot more to someone on JSA than it mrabs to them

nannytone_2

personal care and mobility isnt rent and council tax

nannytone_2

my ex father in law is serioosly ill im hospita;/o visit him 4 times a week. my direct payments are funding this. im getting no benefut, but im doind the right thing. if i didnt get the diret paymenys then hed get no visitors.
its so bum upwards when it all comes down to money.
where is the quality of life?

he gave so mych but then he gets nothing bacvk.... apart from what i give up.
i give it cos i adore him ... but it all has a cost

Morlock

evenasus wrote: »

It's NOT a TAX!

People just won't receive as much free money!

There are two of us in our 4 bedrooms 2 full size bathrooms etc house.

BUT - We bought it with our own money and we will be paying £2233.00 council tax on it this year.

We have never asked or received free money to enable us to buy this house.

There are 10 people living in the UK and one 10 bedroom house. One person claims he has the right to live in 9 of those 10 bedrooms because he pays more money, the other 9 people have to share one bedroom. In effect, you are that one person living in nine rooms.

princessdon

lukieboy96 wrote: »

People have mentioned that family who are getting a new house built with six bedrooms, god knows how many kids she has1 She said it is her right and if she doesn't like it they will ask for another!!!

Maybe all of us who have an extra room should bombard our housing people and insist they build us the one bedroom property's!! Would it happen, of course not!

Also, what annoys me is people saying move into private accommodation. where do we get the deposit and guarantor from?

I agree with this in the long run but the government needs to sort out the housing. Maggie thatcher got rid of so much housing to those who brought but never built more.

Where does anyone get a deposit and guarantor from?

Lack of money is not solely relevant to social housing - it's pretty much all of the UK at the moment.

Tottyshouse

Morlock wrote: »

There are 10 people living in the UK and one 10 bedroom house. One person claims he has the right to live in 9 of those 10 bedrooms because he pays more money, the other 9 people have to share one bedroom. In effect, you are that one person living in nine rooms.

How does owning your own home, paid for with money you have earned through going out to work somehow detrimentally affect any one else's life? I really do not understand your argument. I am 40 now. I bought my first house at 22 the year after I left university. Had I got my name down on a social housing list back then I may actually have been allocated a home by now - despite the fact my husband and I earn good salaries and therefore have far more housing options than people on low salaries or benefits. Imagine if everyone who could afford to own privately 20 years ago hadn't bothered and were now sitting in social housing - now that would be a housing crisis.

Morlock

Tottyshouse wrote: »

How does owning your own home, paid for with money you have earned through going out to work somehow detrimentally affect any one else's life?

Because there is a housing shortage and an 88% rate of under-occupancy in the owner-occupier sector, the biggest under-occupancy rate of all housing sectors. Having that high a number of spare rooms in one sector limits availability for those who are homeless or over-occupied in other sectors. Taxing those spare rooms in the owner-occupier sector would encourage home owners to downsize, freeing up space for those in need of housing.

The social housing sector is the most efficient sector in regard to under-occupancy at a rate of just 5%.