Benefit changes are starting to hit home.

missapril75

recoverydust wrote: »

It all sounds a bit fishy, like if you were a land lord of a £650 a week property you'd let it out to a young woman on benefits with eight children....

Sometimes a landlord can't get a high rent privately but discovers that HB will pay it.

So do you let it to someone on benefits that will pay £650 a week or do you let to someone who won't pay more than, say £500?

parry_hotter

The OP did say this in Feb 12


"After receiving practically nothing in interest payments from savings accounts, and ISAs, hubby suggested buying gold, it may sound stupid to you but in the past year I have spent £30,000 pounds on gold jewellery, not your cheap argos or high street stuff, but gold from Dubai, I have an 18ct gold Rolex watch, which has risen in value by £5,000 in the last six months, the money is still there if it is needed and at the same time I can wear it."

She must live in a nice posh area, no wonder she isnt happy having someone on benefits living next door. The value of her house must be plummeting.

marleyboy

gayleanne wrote: »

I think she got the letter because she is renting privately and the council will be capping her rent, the rent is 650.00 a week.

GMbabies

gayleanne wrote: »

We have a neighbour who is 26 years of age, and has eight children, in a 3 bedroom home, she seems to spend her whole benefits on drink drugs and booze, we have often had her children in our house crying because they are hungry, and we have fed them, meals and given them money for bags of chips, I really feel sorry for the kids, not one of the fathers, visit I am not sure that she even knows who the fathers are.

She received a letter from the DWP today, informing her that her total benefits are going to be cut in April.They are to be capped at £500.00 a week that is including the rent for her house, she was in her garden shouting and screaming this afternoon, and threatening the children, that she is going to put the kids into a home, because she won't be able to afford to keep them, in the mean time she is pregnant with her 9th child. It was heart breaking to see the kids crying and holding on to her coat, she is losing hundreds of pounds a week, in fact she gets more a week than most people earn in a month. And she still lends money from people because she has no gas or electric, I have given money just because of the children, I couldn't bear the thought of them all being cold, or hungry, the house is a tip with matresses on the floor, Social services have been there many times.

I truly think, that she thought it wouldn't happen to her. I feel so sorry for the kids, because I can not see her giving up the fags booze and drugs to feed them. But undoubtedly this is going to happen all over the country. There is no more of having more kids to get more money.

WOW, you live next to one of those large families?
8 Children family is very rare, not even 1% of benefit claimers. Have a look at Page 8
http://www.turn2us.org.uk/pdf/Mythbusting.pdf

GMbabies

recoverydust wrote: »

http://www.foxtons.co.uk/search?location_ids=164&property_id=843480&search_form=map&search_type=LL&submit_type=search

It would be cheaper to rent this property, so perhaps the OP can suggest a move to Kensington and Chelsea......

That's a very very high rent for a three bed house, even without the new benefit cuts, local housing allowance would not cover that and the "neighbour" would be having to contribute.

This story sounds a bit suspect to me.... Does she have pony, sports car or 60 inch tv too

^^^
This. :T

helentay_2

pipkin71 wrote: »

£650 per week for a three bed house is pretty steep.

It depends where in the country you are. Down here in the South, £750 a month will get you a tiny 2 up 2 down box! 3 bed properties start at £950 in a bad area.

d123

helentay wrote: »

It depends where in the country you are. Down here in the South, £750 a month will get you a tiny 2 up 2 down box! 3 bed properties start at £950 in a bad area.

Read that again, the OP is claiming £650 per WEEK.

recoverydust

The local housing allowance for Cardiff is £650 per MONTH, so maybe the OP made an honest mistake.

Based on turn2us and a bit of guessing this young woman and her family would currently get £770 per week in benefit inclusive of child benefit, child tax credit, local housing allowance, council tax benefit and income support.
That is over £40,000 a year.

She will lose £270 a week when the cap comes in.

http://www.turn2us.entitledto.co.uk/calcresults.aspx?sid=13&cid=1e7a8442-6b68-466b-a45d-c39b94b553b0&idk=3bfbf631-3f30-4ff6-a623-4a9a1c860148

The calculations used...

SnooksNJ

Sommer43 wrote: »

I can't see any benefit to this story whatsoever. What's the point of it? So everyone can get up in arms about benefit scroungers?

The whole situation sounds appalling but it is not really helping anyone.

I'm up in arms about Baby Daddies not paying.

gayleanne

The reason why the rent is so high is because it is classed as emergency housing, landlords can charge the council what they want, I am not complaining about having the family living in this street, I am more concerned for the welfare of the children, this family have been in the house for 9 months, I doubt that they will ever again get social housing, because the council and housing associations have evicted them, it was the social services that put them in the house, but the SS must be blind, the house is slowly being wrecked, it is going to cost a fortune to put right, before they were put into this house they were in a travel lodge, for 3 months, paid for by the council, that had just evicted them. They were also evicted by the travel lodge. They didn't appreciate, there hotel being used as a playing field.