Bedroom tax

shafted-

If they want the luxury of extra bedrooms then they have to pay for them themselves.

Er, excuse me, but some people did not have a choice about whether thay had a spare room or not. It comes down to their individual needs, what is available and what is offered in the area they wish or happened to live. And that depends on their proximity to their family and other members of their support network. Also most social housing is 2 bedroom or more.

The government knew damn well what they were doing when thery implemented this despicable and unjustifiable policy: an agenda to slash - or to remove completely - the welfare state and to remove social housing. After all, it was originally intended to be only implemented in a small part of the country.

tomtom256

shafted- wrote: »

Er, excuse me, but some people did not have a choice about whether thay had a spare room or not. It comes down to their individual needs, what is available and what is offered in the area they wish or happened to live. And that depends on their proximity to their family and other members of their support network. Also most social housing is 2 bedroom or more.

The government knew damn well what they were doing when thery implemented this despicable and unjustifiable policy: an agenda to slash - or to remove completely - the welfare state and to remove social housing. After all, it was originally intended to be only implemented in a small part of the country.

All they did was bring social housing in line with private sector housing so that it was fair for all people claiming housing benefit.

Why should someone unable to get social housing receive less benefit just because they have no option but to rent privately?

donnac2558

The tax does not apply to pensioners, who can still get their full rent paid if they live in a one, two or in some cases 3 bedroom properties.

Where I live a few single pensioners as in never been married who live in 3 bedrooms social housing. One was asked if he would do a swap with a woman in the same street who had two grown sons 17 and 21 sharing a bedroom, they pay their rent in full. He said, no liked his house

Murphybear

donnac2558 wrote: »

The tax does not apply to pensioners, who can still get their full rent paid if they live in a one, two or in some cases 3 bedroom properties.

Where I live a few single pensioners as in never been married who live in 3 bedrooms social housing. One was asked if he would do a swap with a woman in the same street who had two grown sons 17 and 21 sharing a bedroom, they pay their rent in full. He said, no liked his house

Just to clarify, Pensioners do not get their whole rent paid unless they are on Pension Credit. There are many pensioners who rent who pay some or all of the rent themselves.

Please do not blame the pensioners who refuse to give up a 3 bedroomed house, blame the people who make the rules.

dippy3103

going.for.gold wrote: »

Does the age of the tenants not have a baring on it now?

Yes. I think pensioners are exempt.

tboo

going.for.gold wrote: »

Can someone tell me if the bedroom tax is still payable for these circumstances.

Originally a 3 bed property which has been reduced to 2 beds to facilitate a through floor lift, work done by local council.

Secondly, one of the tenants is 63 and the other is 65 in August. Full bedroom tax is being applied at the moment so wondering if this can now be cancelled.

Thanks.

Either has to be of state retirement age to stop the 'bedroom tax'.

If the 65 year old is a woman then age attained is July or November 2017 but I assume it's a male as it wll have already changed HB.

So as the male is 65 this year it's Aug 2018.

The current State Pension age is:

• 65 for men born before 6 December 1953
• between 60 and 65 for women born between 6 April 1950 and 5 December 1953