AIBU for wondering how many people on here will be affected by the £500pw benefits cap next year?

[lostgal]

I'm just wondering if there are really people/households who actually receive more than £500 per week in benefits who will actually be affected?

If so, how big an impact will this be on your life?

No, I am not a troll, just genuinely curious to see how common it is and how badly it is likely to affect vulnerable people in our society?

Nothing quite like Eau de Teenage Boy, is there?!

My neighbour's 20 year old daughter shares with her 8 year old daughter whennhome from Uni. Not ideal, but three bed houses here are ridiculous, never mind four beds (which they would need for eachbof their children to have theirnown room)

The bedroom tax even penalises foster parents.

I think we get about 300 a week inc WTC (£70) CTC (£150) HB (about £50 its busy being reviewed atm due to dp's self employed details) and CT (£10) Does Child benefit count? If so its £50 ish. All those are rounded up as i can't remember exactly.

Oh and when this bedroom tax comes in i may lose hb for 1 bedroom as i have 3 girls in a 3 bed house, eventhough the rooms are tiny and theres no way 3 would fit in 1 room.

Glad to see the exemption for those on working tax credit got kept - for some reason I thought it had been voted down with the exemption for child benefit.

I'm pretty sure that when I was working I was getting over £600pw all in, but a big chunk of that was the childcare part of tax credits which actually covered less than half of my actual costs.

Since I left work it's more like just over £400. It really varies by area though because of the inclusion of HB. I live in (I would say) a reasonably cheap area, yet on this thread some people's LHA is half what mine is.

And, waiting the wings are the european "briefs" who will take the uk govt. to the european court and it will (rightly in my opinion) be ruled against and benefits reinstated . We are effectively no longer ruled by this govt. they are merely pandering to the chattering classes (read ,bitter folk)as Gill Scott Heron rapped" the revolution will not be televised , it will be live" and here it comes !