Just been watching Channel 4, news and was supprised by what I heard.
A lady (Patricia) was worried she would have to move out of her house in Islington because of the budget.
Housing Benefit now capped at £400 per week
Patrica's rent £690 per week
Patricia's benefit up until now £583 per week
Short fall of £183 per week
I did notice the manicured fingernails and 42" plasma tv
I am quite shocked that people were able to claim £35, a year in housing benefit
I am gobsmacked
Do people fell this is realy right?
That is exactly why the housing benefit has increased from 14 billion to 21 billion pounds in ten years.
The idea that someone can live in a seven bedroomed house and claim the 1500 quid a month rent off the taxpayers alliance is a fucking joke, or is that the newspapers making it up again?
This is never ending bollocks.
If she has to make up the shortfall then tough shit....get out and get a cheaper property.
I am sick and tired of seeing these scroungers take us all for mugs, and the councils let them get away with it.
and people wonder why the man who has been honest and hard working all his life suddenly picks up the shotgun and blasts the people who have made his life a misery.
more than half of the council boards are thieves and corrupt.
if i had my way id throw them out of the top window of the least a cleaner would have a job!
Part of the problem here is that rents in some ares of central London have no relationship to "normal" living costs - the question is "if someone in these areas has to resort to benefits (clearly they must have had high earnings to get there in the first place) should they be allowed to stay put or move to a cheaper area?"
I would say, "OK let them have the benefit of the higher rent allowance for say six months maximum (they have probably paid into the system at one time on that sort of level), then if they cannot get back to high paid work, they should be made to move".
Plim
These scrounging benefit scum are of course only getting shelter tis the landlords who are making the profits.
£400 per month wouldn't get you very much even round here..
A semi decent habitable flat is in the region of £500 per month..
But if your lucky enough to own your own property at the time of your unemployment then the benefit you receive is paltry....
After waiting 13 weeks and building up arrears that come to over £1000 you will get the interest paid (which in my case would be equal to around £60 per month)
Then when you go back to work you start paying the mortgage again and also extra on top to clear the arrears...
