'bedroom Tax' - Anyone Agree With It?

[Gromit]

The so called 'Bedroom Tax' starts today. Anyone receiving Housing Benefit (HB) who has a spare room will have their HB reduced.

Will it solve the housing shortage?
or
Is it a cynical stealthy way to cut the benefits bill?

[EDDIE51]

Children of existing social housing tenants DO NOT get priority , Index who told you that?

[emmie]

no they don't...

[friedgreentomato]

The OP asked if anyone agreed with it - I do so I stated it - you then felt the need to single me out for negative comments - you don't know what happens in my life but you feel the need to comment on it.

And yes you do come across as very bitter - you are not the only person to lose homes and people close to them!

[chaptazbru]

Sorry em I hate Cameron with a vengance. Maybe vote UKIP next time ... ?

[emmie]

some people are incredibly ill informed about all this.

[emmie]

as you have done on mine endless times, as Red Helen and now as FGT, so making personal remarks cuts both ways.

[1ndex]

My mate got a new 2br council flat, only for council tenants.

[EDDIE51]

You don't make sense Index ''my mate got a new 2br flat only for council tenants'' if he was already a tenant why did he need another flat?
Children of private tenants and owner occupiers have the same priority it is based on need not on where your parents live.

[daffy654]

Your mate may have got a flat as a council tenant, it has nothing to do with whether s/he is the son/daughter of a council tenant though.

[emmie]

because of family, because my understanding is that if you move out of the family home, are a single person you have to go on the housing list like everyone else, if you can't afford to buy. A friend split from his g/f and was told by the council though they had owned their house but he paid the mortage, he wouldn't be entitled to any social housing as a single man, even though they had two kids, who stayed with her.. but he had on alternate weekends as they arranged.

[bednobs]

ok then em, why can't you get a job? if you can't pay but want to stay

[emmie]

i am not 20 or 30 or indeed 50, and in poor health, is that clear enough.

[bednobs]

ans=d also, desktop, if you just spent loads of money to get your rented flat redecorated, as you have said 1) why not just spend that money on rent for the next few months and 2)why on earth are you decorating something you don't own?

[bednobs]

lots of people are in poor health but still manage to work. Mosr people work past 50 till they are pensioanble age!

[emmie]

desktop is the one who said she won't pay, where did i say that i won't.

[bednobs]

i thought you said you would rather go back in hospital than pay it, i thought you said you were going to have to move.

[bednobs]

ps i didn't say wont pay, i said if you "can't pay" you could get a job

[ummmm]

There aren't many job, Bednobs. If you're not qualified you have little hope.

[bednobs]

"yes i am affected by it, so much so, that it may come to moving out entirely, losing my home will be next to losing my o/h"
so if you don't want to move, get a job - even a small aprt time job would probably cover the extra

[bednobs]

well no-one's going to get a job if they don't try are they?