Crackdown On Rich Council House Tenants.

[tonyav]

George Osborne will announce that anyone earning over £40,000 in London or £30,000 outside the capital will lose benefits and have to pay the full market rent.

http://www.msn.com/en-gb/money/other/crackdown-on-rich-council-house-tenants/ar-AAczdNq

[Svejk]

Don't know - I am in the Private Sector and the HM Rent
to
Officer assesses mine (I lie ^ him,he lowered mine last time).

Fixed it for you, mama. ;)

[Svejk]

The 'to' hopped back to the start of the line and spoilt it. ;-(

[david small]

Private rents should have been capped long ago.

[jourdain2]

Answer to O.P. - good! Social housing is meant for those in need and we haven't enough of it, so anyone who can afford more should move out and leave room for those who can't.

[tonyav]

Yes jourdain, I totally agree.

[retrocop]

bouncer33 @1546
Yes it must come as a shock and fairy story to you to find that some scrounger is milking the benefit system and bettering your Giro handouts.
I don't make up stories but I like to see a scrounger squirm.Perhaps you should visit Kuwait and learn some tips from a better scrounger than yourself.
Read on.It will bring you to tears as to what you have been missing out on at the working taxpayer's expense.

http://tundratabloids.com/2015/03/u-k-taxpayers-forked-over-400-000-in-benefits-to-jihadi-johns-parents-over-20-years.html

[tonyav]

Now that is serious scrounging, retro.

[retrocop]

Bouncer33
Another similar fairy tale I just made up.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2978334/Jihadi-John-family-s-20-years-benefits-s-cost-taxpayers-400k-house-fanatic-relatives-upmarket-areas.html#ixzz3TNWaicpK

[tonyav]

Jaysus, our benefit system seriously needs overhauling.

[retrocop]

tonyav
That's the point I was making at 1532.
Seems some home grown scroungers can't believe they are still amateurs compared with the scum that visit us and milk our pathetic system.
The French have got it spot on why there are thousands at Calais risking life and limb to get here.
Read the stupidity of our welfare hand out system and it becomes no surprise.
Our left wingers are still bleating about welfare cuts next week whilst this abuse goes on.

[Gromit]

I still don't understand how the £250million is to be saved. Is it not rather that £250million will be earned by the Chancellor by this measure?

The rent is determined by the Housing Association. If the rent is £600 but a private rent could be £2000, then it is the Housing Association that is losing £1400. But they are run on a not for profit basis, which is why the rent is not at the commercial rate in the first place.

If the Government is telling the Housing Association to charge £2000 to rich tenants, how does that save the Government anything?

Can anyone explain where the £250million saving is actually made?

[ladybirder]

No idea. I could be wrong but I think I read somewhere that CH & HA rents are subsidised to the tune of 5% so even if they disallowed the subsidy that is not going to increase the rental to the market rate. Well not in London for a start.

[Old_Geezer]

Fair enough except that the only reason councils should be in the market at all is to provide housing for folk who can not afford it otherwise. Ideally folk who are not that poor should be being encouraged to vacate and move somewhere else. But i guess it could be argued that, that is what loss of benefits is expected to achieve ?

[yansee]

Don`t know why anyone earning that amount would need housing benefit.