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sovilla wrote: »

So do I have to let them go on the street to make them a priority.

We don't want council housing, we are fine where we are. But they need it.

They could probably get a 1 bed on bransholme which is a terrible area of hull and can sometimes take and hour to get to where we live. Plus if anything happens with the FIL we need to be close by.

I'm going to ring some sheltered hosing places and see if they have anything available.

If I was desparate and it was a choice between living on the Bransholme estate or the street, I'm damn sure I wouldn't be picky.

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But if a foreigner comes over they get everything, houses, bikes, mobile phones.

No they don't, but that's bye the bye.
If your FIL is attending the memory clinic he will have access to a social worker who will be able to help in the search for accommodation.

princessdon

sovilla wrote: »

There is also the problem of not passing a credit check as not been in the country long. They didn't have one last time as paid for the 6 months in advance. If they fail they will need a guarantor and they have no one to do that for them.

So they pay their admin fee and go through the checks and don't get the place but lose the admin fee.

They just can't win either way. I feel so terrible for them and it make me hate our country even more, that older people don't get help. But if a foreigner comes over they get everything, houses, bikes, mobile phones. Makes me sick.

My neighbour hasn't worked a day in her life, she gets full benefits, a house and she sells drugs on the side and is making a mint. Doesn't pay to be honest in this country.

Don't get your logic, they are being given financial help of ESA, Housing Benefit and council tax benefit. Medical help via NHS.

It's their choice of living in a higher rental that is causing problems. They are getting more help than most as on income related, if they still had the money from the villa they'd get nothing at all.

xylophone

And they actually took a lump sum out of father in laws pension

He took the 25% lump sum from a personal pension? What happened to the rest? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_pension_scheme See "Taking retirement benefits".

skintandscared_2

sovilla wrote: »

There is also the problem of not passing a credit check as not been in the country long. They didn't have one last time as paid for the 6 months in advance. If they fail they will need a guarantor and they have no one to do that for them.

So they pay their admin fee and go through the checks and don't get the place but lose the admin fee.

They just can't win either way. I feel so terrible for them and it make me hate our country even more, that older people don't get help. But if a foreigner comes over they get everything, houses, bikes, mobile phones. Makes me sick.

My neighbour hasn't worked a day in her life, she gets full benefits, a house and she sells drugs on the side and is making a mint. Doesn't pay to be honest in this country.

You will not help your cause by ranting against other people who are eligible for benefits. That is irrelevant. If your neighbour is milking the system or doing something illegal, shop them.

I presume, then, that they took no legal advice or had any form of solicitor dealing with the sale in Turkey, or the money would have been held by the solicitor and handed over when the deeds were signed. Unbelievable. Who signs over their only asset in the entire world without receiving a penny first, or knowing the money is safely held by their solicitor?? For all the authorities here know, they could have just given the house up and walked away making themselves intentionally penniless/homeless.

Dunroamin

sovilla wrote: »

They sold it to a Turkish friend and signed over the deeds before receiving the full amount and then the guy didn't pay them. It went to court but all Turks stay together. And they lost around £40,000.

I think that they're probably very lucky to be getting any means tested benefits at all in what seems to me to be a rather unlikely situation.

Dunroamin

skintandscared wrote: »

You will not help your cause by ranting against other people who are eligible for benefits. That is irrelevant. If your neighbour is milking the system or doing something illegal, shop them.

I presume, then, that they took no legal advice or had any form of solicitor dealing with the sale in Turkey, or the money would have been held by the solicitor and handed over when the deeds were signed. Unbelievable. Who signs over their only asset in the entire world without receiving a penny first, or knowing the money is safely held by their solicitor?? For all the authorities here know, they could have just given the house up and walked away making themselves intentionally penniless/homeless.

Or they could still own property in Turkey and are just not disclosing this.

wildwestfan

I am surprised they got past the HRT as they obviously returned to the UK in order to claim benefits.