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Originally Posted by techguyone
You'd have thought that if only 3 bedroom houses were available, that it would be deemed as 'using what's available' rather than 'choosing to live in a bigger place' and paying the tax and an exemption would apply.
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I fully agree.
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Originally Posted by martyh
such as ? I can't think off the top of my head of any reason why a single unemployed 19 yr old without disability and without children should be able to leave home and get housed by the state
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A couple more reasons to add to what Mr Angry provided you with.
- Just because you have a good relationship with your parents, don't assume that everybody has. Some people are estranged from their parents. As an example, I once had an employee who was thrown out and disowned by his parents because he was gay.
- Some of these young people won't have any parents as they will have been brought up in care. Partly as a result of the possibility of this policy going ahead, it is being considered that it may be necessary to let such children stay in care until they are 21. How much extra will this cost the taxpayer?
- Some of these young people will have been the victims of child abuse, be this of a sexual, physical or emotional nature. As a young man, would you want to continue to live with an adult who had, for example, sexually abused you as a child?