housing benefit

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roundthebend4 · 23/06/2010 05:56

think this is going to be something that hits people hard

In future, the maximum payout will be capped at £20,000 a year. Payouts will also be pegged to the lowest 30 per cent of local rents instead of the local average

so the $400 a week max will probably only apply to central London .

I am already capped here and pay £125 a month , struggled to find some one that would con sider Hb and even more that is suitable for Ds3 due to his disablites.I did see cheaper place which would have saved me the £125 a month but the though of having to carry ds3 up and down 2 flights of stairs or up a flight every time he wanted a wee was enough to put me of

So just moving to cheaper property would not work

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legostuckinmyhoover · 23/06/2010 07:36

The charity Shelter [see the website] had this to say:

Shelter has been calling for housing benefit reform for years, but this debate must not be muddied by the use of an extreme example from one area in the country.

?The vast majority of housing benefit claimants are either pensioners, those with disabilities, people caring for a relative or hardworking people on low incomes, and only 1 in 8 people who receive housing benefit is unemployed'.

I think some people on here may find the last 10 words quite a suprise.

legostuckinmyhoover · 23/06/2010 07:29

I know someone who found it very hard to find housing for the same or less than the local council rate. She ended up being homeless for months with two children and becomming very ill. In the end, she could only get a place that was riddled with damp and mould, too small etc from the private sector but paid for with housing bens.

yes, they have made it worse, they may have had to cut it somehow, but they have offered no solution or alternative for housing. They have not addressed issues of affordable housing or the fact that the private sector rents are so high.

in the long run, I would imagine it will mean more areas that are very run down with very poor social housing, more homelessness, more over crowding, and more areas with a high concentration of these problems, more ill health, more poverty etc etc.

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roundthebend4 · 23/06/2010 07:12

oh yes that i agree to it has got out of controll .But im talking about the more everyday rents oh and not capped as its more than £400 a week but by the local council rent capping

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EldonAve · 23/06/2010 06:51

the situation had got out of control though with reports of taxpayers funding £90K-£150K a year for individual families

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