Eviction Letters - being sent out due to benefit cap

365days

bigjl wrote: »

The strange thing about things like this is that hard working NHS staff have been loosing their homes in and around London for years due to having to take on the maximum mortgage they could afford to get a home big. Enough for their family whilst still being able to afford to commute to work.

It may I retest you to know that a huge number of HCP's, Nurses, Paramedics etc in London actually take home less than the Benefit Cap.

I personally don't see why somebody should be allowed to live in an expensive Central London location when those with jobs have to spend two or three hours a day commuting into London, these people tend to be on 12 hour shifts aswell.

The reason I moved out to Essex was purely financial initially.

Why should only working people have to make such money based decisions because they feel the need to contribute to society and pay their own way.

Absolutely! People who pay their own rent/mortgage have to make tough decisions on where and what they can afford. Now it seems that the people who don't pay for their own accomodation will have to make the same decisions. Welcome to our world. Not a moment too soon imo.

clemmatis

bigjl wrote: »

The strange thing about things like this is that hard working NHS staff have been loosing their homes in and around London for years due to having to take on the maximum mortgage they could afford to get a home big. Enough for their family whilst still being able to afford to commute to work.

It may I retest you to know that a huge number of HCP's, Nurses, Paramedics etc in London actually take home less than the Benefit Cap.

I personally don't see why somebody should be allowed to live in an expensive Central London location when those with jobs have to spend two or three hours a day commuting into London, these people tend to be on 12 hour shifts aswell.

The reason I moved out to Essex was purely financial initially.

Why should only working people have to make such money based decisions because they feel the need to contribute to society and pay their own way.

A working person otherwise in the same position as someone affected by the Benefits Cap would get more money than them -- would have, even before the Cap.

The Cap is set at the average income of working households. Of course some NHS staff, hard working or otherwise, will be paid less than that.

And the problem is not that 40,000 households out of 24.3 million got more than the Cap and will now get Cap income.The problem's the price of housing in London and the increasingly unequal.distribution of income and wealth.

Morlock

Thomas_The_Tank_Top wrote: »

The rest of the benefit board scrounger clique are all leaping to her defence.

You really are an odious person.

Valli

So we had buy-to-let and the general promotion of private rentals/landlords; simultaneously social housing stock reduced through the sale of council houses and few new council houses built; this has had the effect of putting up rent for private tenants.

Some of the same people who see benefit claimaints as odious scroungers are benefitting because they are pocketing the rents they collect. So not for much longer...

Valli

lighting_up_the_chalice wrote: »

But no tenant will be left without accommodation as a result of these actions.

I wish I could believe that were true.

clemmatis

Dunroamin wrote: »

TBF, you don't need to be that disabled to get the low rate of DLA, although I believe that's changing with the introduction of PIP.

Low Rate Care DLA -- £19-20 a week -- is indeed intended for people with relatively few care needs. PIP has no equivalent; LRC has simply been abolished. Some recipients of LRC DLA will presumably be awarded Standard Rate Care PIP, £53 a week, = MRC DLA. Others will get nothing.

Dunroamin

clemmatis wrote: »

Low Rate Care DLA -- £19-20 a week -- is indeed intended for people with relatively few care needs. PIP has no equivalent; LRC has simply been abolished. Some recipients of LRC DLA will presumably be awarded Standard Rate Care PIP, £53 a week, = MRC DLA. Others will get nothing.

Thank you for confirming what I said.

clemmatis

Dunroamin wrote: »

Thank you for confirming what I said.

(Really I shouldn't bother) I exolained the precise situation, which could not be inferred from your post.

C_Mababejive

zzzLazyDaisy wrote: »

What nonsense. Firstly PIP hasn't come in yet, and when it does come in, it will replace DLA.... which is paid fortnightly anyway, so no change there. As for being lazy gits, you do realise that DLA/PIP is paid only to the most disabled of benefit claimants, some of whom do in fact need their backsides wiping for them.

Well PIP or whatever i dont know,im just repeating what the guy was bleating about. I know nothing of such things since i have only been out of work for two weeks in my life and that was the bit between leaving school and starting work.

Having checked, i think he was on about something called Universal credit which is being rolled out in his area very soon.


He also said.."my effing social worker better get off his !!!! and find me somewhere else to live". He was asserting that his current LA property was too big for him..which may explain why it was short of a good cleaning.

Horseunderwater

LRC & HRC will exist under PIP as will 2 rates of mobility - what is changing is that they are bringing in more accurate descriptors, which the claimant will need to be able to prove to DWP that they satisfy and that is where the problem lies. Especially the one for mobility and being able to walk 20 meters or less without severe pain/rest/breathlessness. Currently it is set at 50 meters or less.