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Taf · 17-01-2008, 13:30

From personal experience I can inform you that most immigrant workers on low wages are entitled to, and do receive, Housing Benefit and Council Tax Benefit, and landlords (buy-to-let especially) milk the system by increasing rents.

Several Czech families I know pay only a tiny fraction of the rent/council tax... the rest is paid by the British Taxpayer.... thus it is mostly taxpayer's money that is lining the pockets of landlords and fuelling the spiralling house price market.

17-01-2008, 13:30	#18
Taf cf.mega poster Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: Kairdiff-by-the-sea Age: 69 Services: TVXL BBXL Superhub 2ac (wired) 1Tb Tivo Posts: 10,361	Re: What you won't read in the Mail, Express and Sun tomorrow From personal experience I can inform you that most immigrant workers on low wages are entitled to, and do receive, Housing Benefit and Council Tax Benefit, and landlords (buy-to-let especially) milk the system by increasing rents. Several Czech families I know pay only a tiny fraction of the rent/council tax... the rest is paid by the British Taxpayer.... thus it is mostly taxpayer's money that is lining the pockets of landlords and fuelling the spiralling house price market.