bedroom tax.

[sylviajones]

i have put myself on homeswappers. i have been told or rather enquired from coucil about discretionary payment, and was told there is a payment plan but won,t last very long. there is not much help out really. this goverment wants people out of their homes and don,t care how they do it.. i was told i could take a lodger but would lose my benefit as i would be liable for full rent.. i have been told my benefits are going down 14 percent., but at the same time i have had a letter from my landlord they are putting my rent up 3,00 a week and my gas and electric,water payments are going up too, i can,t afford to eat every day now. i wonder if this bedroom tax applies to every one. it is funny this bedrooom tax come inn the same time the millionaires get tax breakes

[tweety]

So true their only in it to make the rich richer and poor not only poorer but homeless and penny less x

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It just goes back to Georgian times when there was a window tax so people simply bricked up windows...... Perhaps people should ask the council and housing associations to come and take out the door of spare bedroom and plaster it up....if no one had spare bedrooms because of this there would be no revenue generated and it would be scrapped...

Just a thought.... Not very likely but would be so good if everyone actually got it done... What would the government do then???

[Jayne68]

mencap.org.uk/news/article/...

take a look at the link above. I am at the moment in 'discussion' with my local authority as I have three disabled kids and they are saying I am over occupied and will loose 14% of benefit. I am going to fight this. There is a discretionary over disabled adults, may be worth looking into?

[Jayne68]

mencap.org.uk/news/article/...

take a look at the link above. I am at the moment in 'discussion' with my local authority as I have three disabled kids and they are saying I am over occupied and will loose 14% of benefit. I am going to fight this. There is a discretionary over disabled adults, may be worth looking into?

[Jayne68]

mencap.org.uk/news/article/...

take a look at the link above. I am at the moment in 'discussion' with my local authority as I have three disabled kids and they are saying I am over occupied and will loose 14% of benefit. I am going to fight this. There is a discretionary over disabled adults, may be worth looking into?

[esagestapo]

I wonder what they would do if you took down a wall or stud partition to make it a 2 or 1 bedroom.

Will people in bedsits get extra money for having no bedrooms?

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ESA look at my comment above.... much easier than taking down walls

[esagestapo]

I don't know if that would work VG, you would still have the bedroom, but without a door. My way, 2 rooms become one.

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But it would be unusable space so if you can't get into it it can't be a bedroom ...same as if you brick up a window it's no longer a window.......

[esagestapo]

We are overlooking one very minor detail here, I don't think the council allows its tenants to make any structural alterations to their properties.

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Hmm ok just cut away the carpet in from of the bedroom door and get a handy person in to build a breeze block barrier right next to the door the same height abut an inch away thereby causing a temporary but extremely impenetrable barrier to said room.... I fear with your plan to make one massive bedroom you may well be slapped with a luxury tax for having such a large opulent bedroom

[shazzap12]

I think the concept of the so called bedroom tax has got lost along the way, and this can been seen from some of the postings, as people talk about spare rooms. Council and Housing Association properties are given according to needs, and if your needs have changed and you are now living in a property with more rooms than is needed this is putting a strain on available housing stock. There are families living in overcrowded situations because others are living in properties with more rooms than they need. A classic example of this is a couple whose children have now grown up and left the home, but they still are living in a 3 bedroom council house. There is no need for them to still be there and they should downsize to a one bedroom place allowing that house to be let to another family. This I believe was the main objective.

[glassbutterfly]

the reason the housing stock is so low is a government problem. It was thatcher who sold off the coucil houses and now people are expected to give up their homes for someone who in all honesty have housing problem that are of no concern to them. Just what kind of dictatorship are we living under? I for one will never give up my home for anyone.

[sylviajones]

i have told my social worker that my son come to my house on the friday to monday to help me. he does my meals,washing, makes and changes my bed, goes to the post office and gets my money and makes sure my bills are paid, do my shopping, my son and his son use my second bedrooom to sleep in. but this does not matter because i have now beeen told that i will definately lose some of my benefit.. if i take in a lodger i will lose the right to housing benefit. i am confused the council don,t help, they told me i have to pay and that is it,end of story, i am going to write to my mp not i think that will help because they only out to linr their pockets, but it will make me feel i am doing something.i have alot of mobility problems and donnot feel i can look after a lodger. and i am weary of strangers, any one got any ideas of what we can do to make people listern to us.. my lanlord as just put up my rent £3.00 aweek,. iam at my wits end. and feel now why wake up any more

[esagestapo]

Quite right Glassbutterfly, the housing problems we face today have been created by government greed, the objective being to extract as much money as they possibly can from the poorest people in society.

They created Poll tax which later became Council tax to cover rents they were no longer getting from social housing.

Some of the more up market housing stock was bought by various Tory peers for give away prices, one Tory Baroness bought 2 council owned properties for around £50,000 or less in Pall Mall, London, then about a month later, she sold one of the properties for £200,000

So any apologists out there who think it is a good idea to scatter people around the country because of this criminal housing shortage scam, needs to take their heads out of their backsides so they can see what is really happening here.

Question, how many people living in council houses have sons or daughters fighting for this lame ass government and lost their lives in the process?

[esagestapo]

Fighting wars in Afghanistan and Iraq ie.

[sylviajones]

this goverment and blair started this war because of oil, not because of people and saving them, they have told so many lies, and are still lieing to the people., they do not care about children going hungry, and possibly being homeless, i bet they are still claiming for second homes and their chaupher driven cars. and cheap meals, while cutting waiters pay..thye buy houses on the cheap and sell them at extotionate prices.. what hope do the ordinary folk have, none i guess.