Housing benefits may be axed for under 25s.

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.telegraph....t-from-under-25s.html

Is this a good idea or is it fraught with problems?

Would it also be a good idea to link benefit payments regionally – which would mean less money going to claimants who live in less-expensive parts of the country?

[ummmm]

I had 2 children by the age of 25. 3 by 26...

I worked and had a partner who worked full time but if he'd walked out on me, through no fault of my own, are people suggesting that I shouldn't have received any help?

[ummmm]

Bednobs...some men just won't pay a penny.

[Coldicote]

This famous quote was by Dr. Adrian Pierce Rogers in 1984 (American):-

"You cannot legislate the poor into freedom by legislating the industrious out of it. You don’t multiply wealth by dividing it. Government cannot give anything to anybody that it doesn’t first take from somebody else. Whenever somebody receives something without working for it, somebody else has to work for it without receiving. The worst thing that can happen to a nation is for half of the people to get the idea they don’t have to work because somebody else will work for them, and the other half to get the idea that it does no good to work because they don’t get to enjoy the fruits of their labor".

http://magsx2.wordpre...-dr-a-rogers-america/

[bednobs]

well, they should be made to ummmm

[Duncer]

Coldicote - magic words indeed.

[craft1948]

When I was younger it was the done thing to live with your parents until you got married..................when did that change?

[jno]

Rogers was an American Baptist leader who believed that every word of the Bible was the literal truth. His political views are no doubt equally accurate.

[daisya]

Have to agree totally with Lottie over this. The nanny state should stop "nannying" IMO.

[Duncer]

jno, just because some of a person's beliefs are risibile it doesn't mean they all are.......

[Duncer]

.....and I meant risible.

[ummmm]

Bednobs - absolutely agree. The CSA are rubbish, so what can a woman do?

[Mamyalynne]

Abuse of benefits should be stopped, but age restricting them punishes surely. Someone leaves school, gains employment and works 5 years say, put out of work... then what - no help at all until they find a new position?? Infeasible.

[New Judge]

So a better idea would be to scrap Housing Benefit entirely.

[ummmm]

So where do they go NJ?

[Mamyalynne]

Ah - the work house .....

[EDDIE51]

Restricting benefits based on the age of the recipient alone is surely illegal under the age discrimination laws ? Perhaps he should suggest that HB is available only to White people who have lived in the Uk for at least 5 generations ? That would seem to be equally illegal !

[ladyalex]

Has anyone thought about children coming out of Care ?
Turfed out at 18 with no one to turn to or live with.
Where would they live as they are unlikely to earn enough to be able to pay their own rent ?

[sandyRoe]

He'll need to do another U turn here. He's getting quite proficient at them now.

[shaneystar2]

I lived at home until I got married .Once I left it was ..in the words of my mother ..You make your bed ....you lie on it .
Have done that ever since and made our way in life .I can understand though that things are different these days .I was a baby boomer .We had it quite good .I feel sorry for youngsters these days .
Work is hard to come by .You have students leaving Uni owing thousands .
What are they supposed to do. Live in cardboard boxes ?
Social housing is zilch. Mrs T made sure of that by allowing people to buy their council homes and social housing never been replenished fully by successive governments .Youngsters have no chance in this country .

[EDDIE51]

shaneystar , Yes I left school in 1968 , it was unheard of then to leave and not have a job to go into . After 3 years I was made redundant but I got another job the next day . University was free and you got a grant .