Council houses owning brand new cars?

So why not pay for a private rental and just have an old car?

New kitchen and bathroom installed every number of years

With free electrocution in the case of Dhs friend

What a sweeping ignorant statement.

There are nurses, teachers etc..on universal credit.

More than half new leased cars are on notability scheme. For people claiming disability benefits. Paid for by other people.

10 million people of working age are not working or not working enough and claiming benefits.

Who said claiming benefits is hard. Literally millions are doing and new cars are being handed out on benefits, the likes of which people in work could bill afford.

That’s why the systems is broken and losing so much support.

People are annoyed at subsidizing rent for people who are better off than they are. That’s fair enough I think

Hahaha that’s a great list but none of the amounts are giving people cash to buy brand new cars. Think harder.

It's almost as if Council Tenants are required to live a life of indentured servitude. Peasants!

My partner and I live in a council house. It's £550 a month and we both work full time and pay tax.

Council houses are much cheaper than private rents so people can save for new cars etc.

Certain people just despise The Poor, yet depend on their low paid labour for everything.

You own the house at the end of a mortgage. You don't when you rent from the council.

I don't have kids so I guess I am doing benefits all wrong.

I am so sorry.

I'm curious as to what exactly a Council tenant needs to do to be worthy.

One must not claim benefits, especially not disability-related ones, especially not when one has mobility needs that require transport to carry out activities of daily living. While not claiming benefits, one must not progress in ones career or make desirable purchases, nor lease desirable items. One must - and this one's a trick - be homeless, despite the fact that once in social housing one ceased ~like magic~ to be homeless and thus ~abracadabra~ is immediately undeserving. To meet the Acceptable Social Tenant Standard one must sustain a state of unmet need and working poverty and homelessness in perpetuity. To ensure this, Councils must now spend their HRA budgets on enforcement of the Standard.

Well, assuming they’re on benefits, spare cash may come from:

• Universal Credit
• Not having to pay rent or mortgage
• No council tax
• Healthy Start payments for food (around £25 per child per month)
• Regular supermarket vouchers from your council. Tend to be every school holiday and about £90 a time.
• Cost of Living Payments (£300 a go)
• Household Support funding (into the £100s)
• Child benefit (around £200 per month for 2 kids)
• Not having to pay service charges for your block of flats
• Cheap entry to places like London Zoo (£6 per adult instead of £30+) and council gym activities like Soft Play which costs us £13 each time but is only a couple of quid if you’re on benefits.
• Vastly reduced gym membership at council gyms. Around £12 per month at my local one instead of nearly £100 if not on bennies.
• Food bank access. Saves a lot of money!
• PIP if you manage to claim it (£749 pm)
• Free school meals and other help with children attending school.
• 30 free hours at nursery instead of 15, even if you’re not working but in receipt of UC.
• DLA and Carers allowance if you can prove one or more of your kids has ADHD, ASD, etc.
• Reduced utility bills for Thames Water, Broadband, mobile and electricity (just provide proof of UC).
• Winter fuel payments if temp dips below a certain amount for a certain time (don’t need to be old).
• New kitchen and bathroom installed every number of years.
• not having to pay out for roof repairs or any sort of other home maintenance repairs.

I’m sure I’m forgetting some!

But anyway, getting the full raft of benefits often leaves you better off month to month than a non benefit family where one parent works and the other is a SAHP, or even where both parents work but are on low-ish income. I’ve been on both sides of the fence and had more disposable cash on benefits.

Same here- hence why I can say it confidently.

its not just the ‘benefit’ amount it’s all the other extras too.

its really not difficult with even just one parent on PIP and one child on high rates DLA to get getting £5000 per month.

Care to expand? Hit a nerve?

a large fraction of those I’ve encountered in the NHS are rude, entitled and pretty bad at their jobs.

No more of a disincentive than those of us scraping together a meagre living working long hours to pay off a mortgage. Paying tax. Oh and driving around an old banger.

I know a couple who's kids have flown the nest and still live in theirs.

Story of my life. We are surrounded by people with 24 plates yet we are the only homeowners (ex LA) and are about to buy a 10 yr old car as that’s all we can just about afford.

People on benefits seem to not be able to plan for the future and cannot delay gratification, hence they use their spare case to lease a flashy car. There’s also a cultural element, where we live, at least.

we where very lucky to get re homed in the country side (semi detached over looking feilds) our house was brought from an old man, the council bought 8 houses in the village. no one wants to live out here because there's nothing here not even a local shop! we feel safe here and having only 6 houses on the street the security we have from nosy neighbours means we settled in with no worries. I know of people gwtting 3 bed houses and it's just a couple no children as their children where taken away years ago and they never told the housing. I think In these situations they shouldn't be living I the affordable houses with more bedrooms than needed.

Either cars on the Motability scheme (which means they are disabled... lets not get jealous of that, yes?), or the cars are hire purchase/lease.