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Help For my elderly MOM

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  • swt61
    swt61 Posts: 162 Forumite
    Many thanks to Everyone for all your help at least I understand now what the situation is.

    I hope we will sort something out,

    Regrds to all,

    Simon
  • dmg24
    dmg24 Posts: 33,920 Forumite
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    pesky_princess, your post is out of line. Reported.
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  • roy62
    roy62 Posts: 327 Forumite
    She should stop paying her rent and rates because there nothing the council can do.
  • dmg24
    dmg24 Posts: 33,920 Forumite
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    margaretclare wrote: »
    Well, thanks a lot for all the 'elderly' assumptions that are thrown around (tongue-in-cheek!) but thanks to Debt_Free-Chick and TBeckett100 for their factual explanations.

    Sometimes I feel invisible!
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  • dmg24
    dmg24 Posts: 33,920 Forumite
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    roy62 wrote: »
    She should stop paying her rent and rates because there nothing the council can do.

    What a stupid answer.

    They can chase the tenant for the rent, and eventually this would go to court, and finally, the tenant would be evicted.

    Would you like your mum or grandma to go through that?
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  • MissMoneypenny
    MissMoneypenny Posts: 5,324 Forumite
    margaretclare wrote: »
    There's no solution. She had money, she's got rid of it, what else can you say?

    I'm sure her loving family will now have realised that they shouldn't have accepted the money from her and will pay it all back to her, as she needs it to live on. If they have spent it, there is always loans or a second job.
    RENTING? Have you checked to see that your landlord has permission from their mortgage lender to rent the property? If not, you could be thrown out with very little notice.
    Read the sticky on the House Buying, Renting & Selling board.


  • roy62
    roy62 Posts: 327 Forumite
    dmg24 wrote: »
    What a stupid answer.

    They can chase the tenant for the rent, and eventually this would go to court, and finally, the tenant would be evicted.

    Would you like your mum or grandma to go through that?

    What a stupid reply.
    Would you expect a council to leave a 70yr. old women with ill health on the street.
  • dmg24
    dmg24 Posts: 33,920 Forumite
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    roy62 wrote: »
    What a stupid reply.
    Would you expect a council to leave a 70yr. old women with ill health on the street.

    They would, and have done this. All because someone is above certain age, it does not make them above the law.
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  • neverdespairgirl
    neverdespairgirl Posts: 16,501 Forumite
    pesky_princess wrote: »
    :mad: Disgusting really, all these immigrants get straight in our country with everything handed on a plate to them by way of benefits, housing etc....

    Don't be so silly, and don't rant from a position of ignorance, please.

    "Immigrants" are hardly one group. But to give a few examples:

    (1) Those who come on a spouse or family visa - they get leave to remain, usually for 2 years, and CANNOT have ANY access to public funds;

    (2) Those who come as students / work permits / highly skilled migrants. Usually visas for up to 5 years, NO access to public funds;

    (3) Asylum seekers. They get vouchers for less than income support (not cash) and are moved around the country all the time.
    ...much enquiry having been made concerning a gentleman, who had quitted a company where Johnson was, and no information being obtained; at last Johnson observed, that 'he did not care to speak ill of any man behind his back, but he believed the gentleman was an attorney'.
  • roy62
    roy62 Posts: 327 Forumite
    Where do some people live Nazi Germany.
    She is entitled to a free roof over her head and £124 for living expenses.
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