Benefit cap could make 40,000 family homeless.

[super jumbe]

Benefit cap could make 40,000 family homeless.


Another money saving diabolical thinking!!!!!!!!!!!!

This indicates that we could see an additional 20,000 homelessness acceptances as a result of the total benefit cap???.as a result of other changes to the housing benefit.


A spokesman for Mr Pickles said we are fully supportive of all the Government's policies on benefits.



Either the Govt agreed or not I can not see how people are going to cope with the higher rising of fuel and food to feed there children?s and pay there bills remains to be seen.

[torchy]

This government needs to take a good look at the scandalous footballers wages and claw money back from them instead of the poor and needy.What these players get in one week is pathetic.Get a grip Cameron you idiot.

[super jumbe]

From day 1 con/lib came to power I heard nothing but cuts, cuts, cuts, cuts they want to save money from the public??. when they are on ?70,000 and over a year.

Labour have been a failures over the years and I just can not see who to vote in the next election!!!!

I am going to stop voting because not one party is making any sence?.

[maca]

me m8s just had the snip does that count ??

[C64]

What are these proposed changes anyway, or haven't they been announced yet?

[maca]

What are these proposed changes anyway, or haven't they been announced yet?

No not been announced yet that makes a change

[Lainie]

What are these proposed changes anyway, or haven't they been announced yet?

to cut a veryyyyyyyyyyyyyy long story short they are cutting the amount of housing benefit one household can claim to ?400 a week!! yes a WEEK!!!! you have no idea the amount of benefit claimants (esp those under the age of 20) in private accommodation paying not a penny of rent. and before anyone starts yes i am aware there are very few council houses and flats out there, however all us working people struggle to pay our mortgages and no one helps us.

[maca]

ffs ?400 a week ~~~~ em ?400 cheeky coonts make them take the ~~~~in pill from the age of 10

[C64]

to cut a veryyyyyyyyyyyyyy long story short they are cutting the amount of housing benefit one household can claim to ?400 a week!! yes a WEEK!!!!

Say no more!

Around here Council house rent is approx ?55 per week, the average mortgage is about ?250. where the ~~~~ are these people living where they need to pay more than ?400 a week?

Is this situation perhaps created by greedy landlords knowing they can milk the government for every penny if they take a DSS client?

[Lainie]

private landlords witchy. they can charge people on benefits what they like as social will pay for it. thats one of the reasons its changing. i know a shopkeeper in paisley who deliberately lets to dhss. he has 8 rented properties around his shop and not 1 of his tenants works!. you will see in the ads in the papers etc dhss (very old name for it) welcome and thats the reason why. ive had people paying sorry rephrase that claiming ?2000 a month rent!! the average private let is between ?600 and ?900 a month.

please dont blame it all on single parents as thats not the case. thousands of teenagers claim saying they have been chucked out etc and head to their nearest letting agency. most dont even approach their local council.

[super jumbe]

In London house rent is well over ?600.00 per week in 1999, the average mortgage is about ?1,600 a calendar month and that in rundown area Hackney??.. When this people do come out of employment either getting sack or sick you, one word to say (dead)

[bonus2010]

Glad to hear some sense is being spoken about the government plans to cap housing benefit (?500 per week... still seems too high). Hey, none of us want to see families put on the street. However, the fact is, because the government is paying landlords ?500+ per week in rent, this has an effect of pushing up private rents, making them unaffordable for those that do work, and don't qualify for housing benefits. It seems to me, to be a vicious circle...

Put it another way... if we've got a family living in a house at ?500+ per week... what are they? Unemployed Doctors or unemployed Pop Stars? Don't think so...the fact that the rent is so high... are they ever going to be expected to find a job to afford this? No, the real winners are greedy landlords... and in London, I'm told the housing at ?500/week are hovels, not des res luxury apartments.

Hey... think the government is trying here... but there's complications..

[C64]

OK, so this is all about the greed of Private landlords?

So it's not really about the poor unemployed, it's about rich greedy bastards exploiting the poor.

[bonus2010]

See when the housing benefits cap was announced, one of the biggest protestors was Boris Johnson, Mayor of London.

I don't think, Boris Johnson... a true Tory is at all interested in 'the unemployed'. No, he was caring about his rich landlord friends..

Other point.... it's not exclusively the unemployed who claim housing benefits. Listening to the radio... family earning ?25K.... claiming housing benfits.

If the government is going to continue paying landlords generous rents, that bare no relation to what people can earn........ then there's something wrong. That's all I'm saying.

[racin-snake]

seems that all the arguments i see here are valid to the point of income based and needs are not proportionate unfortunately

i personally do not have a valid answer to anything here
but do see a systemic problem

the fact being that these problems stated and reported only help divide the lower classes into further more fractions of the haves over the have nots

in so far as
most if not all the people unemployed have nothing to gain by being employed ? which is a basically incomprehensible contradiction aint it ?
and those employed are still on the breadline and have bills and other burdens that the are strangled every single month
but look at the other component

tax burdens and bank bailouts foreign spending and above all military burdens
all of these are huge deficits to making and reforming an actual work economy based on manufacture and production
yet they have us fight amongst ourselves with chasing benefit fraud and workers feuds with pensions ect ect

looking at the bigger picture all this does is diverts us
(by fractionalisation )
into not seeing that the biggest frauds being perpetrated are by the guys who have the money IE bankers and large corporations
(usually offshore)

they don't pay the taxes due ? they never have and never will
they just syphon off what they like !
wealthy people are bigger fraudsters than any other bunch in the world
yet we blame the have nots taking a pittance ?
whilst in the big picture it is insignificant fraud over the huge fraudsters

divide and conquer

simple though it sounds
if you want to see where your tax money goes
follow the money its far bigger than you'd imagine
but the powers that be pull the wool over your eyes with contrived infighting

if you don't believe me ..have a really close look
ime talking billions for the bankers in interest alone before it even trickles down to pay the actual dept
me not saying we don't ave a problem in this country
but if you remove the petty and frankly over exaggerated stuff and look at the real problem

you wont see it if you don't look !
and its in the best interest for the party's with the money to keep it that way
and keep us chasing the smaller fish while the big ones take take take

probably surprise many as to where the coffers really go
as it is now you work as a slave to keep yourself also 50 odd percent of what you earn (actually more )
goes to pay banks for providing loans for stuff we didn't want and don't need

hopefully when you do have a look you will see but please
by all means look

it really is in your best interest and might actually make you see why they keep us divided and at each others throats
it serves as a carefully constructed blindfold as to where to really see what's happening

if the powers that be can keep us looking at how we are different then we cannot see a common thread that in fact we should be looking at the fact we are not different at all
just different in levels of actual monetary worth no more no less