Re: £1600 pw housing benefit!
 

yes he does ,he has contributed to the benefit system they haven't,
granted he was a bit naive but he is 19 and does deserve the help of his government
I would like to know if you have ever been in his position if you have then try offering some advice to him instead of pillorying him for daring to assume he may get a bit of support from a system he has paid into

Re: £1600 pw housing benefit!
 

Nope,just wondering why you feel the need to call me stupid?

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Sorry,no,I haven't.... I guess in Socialist Nu Labour Britain I should be ashamed for that... ;)

also,I have offered him advice.... get multiple jobs to pay bills? :confused:

Ok,I'll stop it here as advised by Rob,otherwise I may end up having to defend myself for actually working and paying taxes... :rolleyes::rolleyes:

Re: £1600 pw housing benefit!
 

Very wise.....can we get back to the topic at hand now please?

Re: £1600 pw housing benefit!
 

As it is, David isn't entitled to help. but they class hardship as suffering, and the immigrants are suffering from not having a house with 4 bathrooms.

they don't seem to class all as the same. they seem to prioritise one against the other. and the other always seems to be the one who has a long history of being more British than the other.

Re: £1600 pw housing benefit!
 

Well I have had to defend why I left my job!

back to the post in hand.

I wonder for how long this £1600 a week has been paid to them. It says they came here in 1991 and lost there previous home. I wonder if they have ever worked.

Re: £1600 pw housing benefit!
 

Probably. when they were living in a little over crowded flat that was too small for them. but all they could afford from the wage they were earning.

Re: £1600 pw housing benefit!
 

still bickering? ;)

well,the £1600 have been paid for far too long....

Gary,no one should be favoured over the other,and this story is a disgrace,and a timely reminder that our benefits system needs urgent reform.:td:

Re: £1600 pw housing benefit!
 

Which I agree with. I remember when my father was amongst the few that worked amongst all the others that didn't.
he was worse off for it, and he knew it. but he carried on working to pay for all the things that the others got free for not working.

Re: £1600 pw housing benefit!
 

Can anyone tell me how long our benefits system has been put in place and if its been the same since it started?

Again I really don't understand how and why people can get in and get so much money with ease.

Also I did not think the council had stock housing worth that much

Re: £1600 pw housing benefit!
 

There's actually people who's job it is to make sure that people get help financially for everything they need. you have to be unemployed to qualify.

if you get given a car to transport your family. you can sell it to the breakers for £40. he'll take advantage, and you can feel rich by suddenly not understanding English again :)

Re: £1600 pw housing benefit!
 

Somewhere I read that local estate agents think the rent being paid is twice the market value.... I think that happens a lot.As soon as the gov gets involved landlords get pound signs in their eyes and charge a nice premium rate! :rolleyes:

At the end of the day they know that they will get the rent,after all the gov won't go bust or not pay up... or move away,for that matter ! :erm:

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Surely the telly,Hi-Fi and furniture wasn't paid by the government as well?? :confused:

Re: £1600 pw housing benefit!
 

If you think about it, it must be.

Re: £1600 pw housing benefit!
 

But they already have that control. It was the local authority's decision to put them into that property in the first place.

An incompetent council waisting money on an unnecessary home. Nothing new there.

Mind you, something tells me that they perhaps should have looked harder for a more appropriate home. Do you think they may have been trying to make a point, at the the expense of the taxpayer?

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Nonsense, it was the Thatcher government's decision to prevent local authorities from spending the receipts, from housing sales, to build more housing stock.

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How would you have fared if you were paid only four pounds an hour? As much as the minimum wage is not a lot for someone of your age (or any other age for that matter), at least there is actually a minimum wage.

Re: £1600 pw housing benefit!
 

It is that comment that is nonsense.

First of all, the council houses that were sold had families living in them. So the number of Council houses would go down by x houses, but the number of families that the Council were responsible for, would go down by the same number.

Secondly, no matter how many Council houses were built, this family would not be housed in any of them, because of the size and make-up(ages of children) of the family.

Re: £1600 pw housing benefit!
 

:confused: The rent in question here is £1600 pw - that's £83,200 pa :shocked: