Housing benefit cuts are on the way

[Cyclone]

Depends what you classify as 'well'

 

Out of the people I live with, the two who completed a degree are earning around £12,000-£14,000 a year. The two who left school at 18 and 16 are on jobs of £16,500 and £23,000 respectively.

 

Experience seemingly counts for a lot more than qualifications at the moment.

 

Maybe it's just an age thing.

 

My solicitor mates are probably earning in the 30k+ range. My dentist mate earns more than me most likely, the guy in data maintenance is somewhere around 30k, the guy with only A levels is close to 20k I believe.

We don't generally discuss exact salaries, but I doubt I'm a long way out with these estimates.

 

You're mate on 23k isn't doing bad for someone with just GCSE's, assuming that they're within a decade of leaving school. If you're all in your 50's then it looks a lot worse.

 

Experience certainly counts though, no argument about that.

[ricgem2002]

it seems these cuts may affect disabled people too, some may even lose their adapted homes http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-12714313

[sues_budgie]

Will the cuts force down rental prices and house prices?

 

Perhaps so - and that will be a good thing for many people, especially those in work who have been priced out of housing for the past 8 years or so

[ricgem2002]

Will the cuts force down rental prices and house prices?

 

Perhaps so - and that will be a good thing for many people, especially those in work who have been priced out of housing for the past 8 years or so

i dont think the landlords who are in it to make a quick buck will think the same way thou ?

[alrockman]

Where do you suggest they live? Everyone has a right to shelter and not everyone is able to afford it. bit obvious really.

 

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Good point I absolutely agree, but should their shelter be bigger, better and in a better area than the one I can afford on the wage I work hard for.

 

If you are unemployed with no prospects of ever working you do not need to live in London, many people move to areas for better work prospects so whats wrong with people with no work prospects moving to areas that are cheaper to live.

[Karis]

so have the government cottoned on to private housing landlords charging what they have and now need to bring them into line ?what i would like to know is where will all these people live if they are forced out of these houses seeing as there is not a lot of council housing around http://www.thestar.co.uk/headlines/Poor-face-losing-their-homes.6385572.jp

 

The problem here is that if you change something, some people WILL be affected, and this is just a fact of life. The stories the media is trying to dredge up are sad, of course, but there will always be repercussions for a change like this and there will always be some negative consequences.

 

This is why the country is in such a dire position; the sheer terror of changing anything because the country will go in uproar over the negative changes of a minority.

 

What's worse, the Government has clearly made attempts to protect these individuals with genuine cases, so I cannot see how this is a genuine story.

[discodown]

it seems these cuts may affect disabled people too, some may even lose their adapted homes http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-12714313

Non story, this is part of the government white paper on benefit reform that is not law yet and is still going through parliament. This part of it is being heavily debated and may not be introduced in its current form into the bill. Don't worry about it just yet

[alrockman]

Housing benefit cuts deter landlords from letting

 

Mr Bryan believes that interest rates, currently 0.5%, are bound to go up in the next 18 months, increasing his mortgage repayments just as his income from tenants will be falling. Therefore he will no longer rent out any of his properties to housing benefit claimants.

Eighty-six percent of respondents said they could not afford to cut their rents, while almost two-thirds said they could find non housing benefit tenants.

 

I don’t know where they think they will find non housing benefit tenants because workers that can’t get benefits can’t afford the high rents.

 

If we don't do something now, in 18 months time I am likely to be bankrupt because we can't afford to continue with the cuts that are coming," he said

 

I don’t have a problem with that, his business model relies on low interest and highly subsidised rents. He deserves to go bust and when he does the houses will be up for sale at a more affordable price. Let’s give the next generation the opportunity to own their own house.

[Tony]

Mr Byran should have a better business model. If he can't stand the vagaries of the market he should do something else for a living, and soon will be doing from what he says.

 

Either that or he should man up, stop complaining and get on with it.

[Mr Prime]

You probably need to understand what tax avoidance means before you repeat such a stupid statement as 'make it illegal'.

 

You could say higher tax on the riches, you could also watch them leave the country with their money, just as happened in the past. Then you could say, "sorry, socialism gets it wrong again".

 

You could cut trident. Saving a paltry amount year on year, that figure you're quoting is over what, a 25 year life time? You could also kiss goodbye to any international standing we have, our seat on the defence council and the benefits of being one of the few nuclear powers in the world.

 

I'm not sure there was a mass exodus of the rich in the 70's, I think it's a tabloid myth along the lines of Callaghan saying "crisis? What crisis?". If it is true then we did not see the collapse of society simply because the rich cleared out. They would always try and keep their money away from the taxman even if we had 1% income tax.