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Housing Association House - What happens when I retire?
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specialboy wrote: »For some stupid reason pensioners are exempted from the top up and receive full HB.
Bedroom Tax will probably be abolished within 5 years anyway.
It's deeply unpopular, costs taxpayers more, (with councils having to rehouse people in more expensive private lets, at taxpayer cost), and I cannot see any political party pursuing it for much longer.
Lin
You can tell a lot about a woman by her hands..........for instance, if they are placed around your throat, she's probably slightly upset.
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Hi there, does your property have the right to buy? might be a way of affording to own
Housing Association properties don't have the Right to Buy, with the accompanying handsome discounts. HA homes have the Right to Acquire, with discounts capped at £16k. This is unless the property was formerly a council property; then you'll likely have a protected RTB.0 -
Totally disagree with this, in fact the question has to be asked why any pensioner who has worked hard all their lives does not own their own home ?
Easy answer, many will have been employed all their working lives but on low pay so never could actually get a mortgage. Many will have had a property with their partner and then separated or divorced and lost their property. Many will have some point been made redundant and lost their property, some will have become ill and lost their property. All of these people could have been hard workers.It's someone else's fault.0
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