housing benefit reduction. a solution but the council is blocking it!

custardy

nannytone wrote: »

he is working and paying full rent.
does that make it ok? a family is overcrowded because someone can affors the £14 reduction in HB>
the argument out forward is that people over occupying are keeping a family overcrowded.honeless.
the fact that another single person is taking over my current property disputes this. but they are paying full rent so they can have a million spare rooms.
at least be honest and say you want to cut benefit rather than blur things and pretend to care about homeless families

if they are paying full rent then what does it matter about HB?
Under present rules you can live in whatever the council provide(or what you can afford in mortgage/private lets) as long as you are willing/able to pay for it
So your point is well....pointless

nannytone_2

custardy wrote: »

if they are paying full rent then what does it matter about HB?
Under present rules you can live in whatever the council provide(or what you can afford in mortgage/private lets) as long as you are willing/able to pay for it
So your point is well....pointless

really? i live in a larket town of 10,000. there were no 1 ned preoperties until last week. now 2 have been reclassified.
one was vacant and i have been lucky enough to secure it. i have been criticised for helping myself and jumping the council list. i admit to doing this. but i was struggling with the rediction in benefit after a monthy.
so you really thin k i am the only person adversly affected?
a lot of us would like to live inn your world

custardy

nannytone wrote: »

really? i live in a larket town of 10,000. there were no 1 ned preoperties until last week. now 2 have been reclassified.
one was vacant and i have been lucky enough to secure it. i have been criticised for helping myself and jumping the council list. i admit to doing this. but i was struggling with the rediction in benefit after a monthy.
so you really thin k i am the only person adversly affected?
a lot of us would like to live inn your world

you seem to be stuck in a me me me circle
the rules in place dont stop anyone having a 'spare' bedroom in a council house

mazza111

lighting_up_the_chalice wrote: »

So, again, existing tenants are given priority as a result of the bedroom tax. Glad you confirmed that as others on here were claiming there was no such priority.

But nanny wasn't given priority. The guy who had already been allocated the property was the priority. The HA simply asked him what flat he preferred. Which was a good move in all honesty. He may have a family in later years. Which is possible for my dd too. So it didn't actually free up a 2 bedroom property for a family.

custardy wrote: »

if they are paying full rent then what does it matter about HB?
Under present rules you can live in whatever the council provide(or what you can afford in mortgage/private lets) as long as you are willing/able to pay for it
So your point is well....pointless

Not really. I believe anyone who's under occupying a 3+ bedroom property should try to downsize. I did it when I was still paying full rent before my retirement from RM. There just aren't enough 3+ bedrooms for all the families. Just like there aren't enough 1 bedroom properties for singletons.

Just because the rules are there, doesn't mean we all have to like them.

I'm all for people downsizing whenever possible, But sometimes it will be impossible, especially for disabled people, when it means they would have to move away from their support network.

lighting_up_the_chalice

Morlock wrote: »

There is no priority in many local authorities, in some there is, I understand that is a difficult concept for you to grasp, but it is a fact.

Almost ALL local authorities are granting priority. It's in their own interests. Most have done everything they could to encourage downsizing since well before the bedroom tax. Seems it's facts YOU have trouble grasping.

lighting_up_the_chalice

nannytone wrote: »

a lot of us would like to live inn your world

But even more would like to live in your world, where keys are handed over on the click of your fingers, no need to apply, no need to bid, no need to take any notice of a fair and transparent allocations policy, just push right in to the front of the queue and sod everyone else. As long as you're alright Jack!

Disgraceful.

lighting_up_the_chalice

custardy wrote: »

you seem to be stuck in a me me me circle
the rules in place dont stop anyone having a 'spare' bedroom in a council house

I don't think "rules" are Nannys thing. They just apply to other people. Nanny clearly considers herself above all that sort of thing.

lighting_up_the_chalice

mazza111 wrote: »

But nanny wasn't given priority.

Wasn't given priority???? Are you serious???

Apply for housing? No need Nanny.
Bid for a property? No need Nanny
Allocation according to a published policy? No need Nanny.
Fair and accurate assessment of housing need? No need Nanny.

I really don't see how she could have had MORE priority. Unless the keys are 18ct Gold and the toilet flushes with Champagne!!

mazza111

lighting_up_the_chalice wrote: »

Wasn't given priority???? Are you serious???

Apply for housing? No need Nanny.
Bid for a property? No need Nanny
Allocation according to a published policy? No need Nanny.
Fair and accurate assessment of housing need? No need Nanny.

I really don't see how she could have had MORE priority. Unless the keys are 18ct Gold and the toilet flushes with Champagne!!

She wasn't allocated the 1 bedroom flat. The other chappy was. He had priority. It just so happened her HA had used a wee bit of forward planning, which is always a good thing imo. If chappy had said no, I'll stick with the 1 bedroom, she'd still be in her 2 bedroom...

Now if they had applied that forward planning with my disabled friend, she would have been in the 2 bedroom ground floor flat, and her cousin would have been in an upstairs flat, cos there was no medical reasons for the cousin to have a gnd floor flat. And it would have been 2 people off the housing list instead of 1.

nannytone_2

custardy wrote: »

you seem to be stuck in a me me me circle
the rules in place dont stop anyone having a 'spare' bedroom in a council house

your husband got made redundant. kets see how tiiy feek wgeb ge uus dusavked abs CABT work, just a suggestion... but how about youy get a full tune job?