Disability living allowance and all benefits and lower income this is how it look s?
Agreed = we can't afford to pay out to support other nations citizens when our own need help. Time to put a stop to all UK Taxpayer funded foreign aid...
How much does the average UK taxpayer pay for EU taxes?
The BBC has a nice little graph: Paying for the EU budget
Can I get section 8 housing with no income?
I am 18 years old, I have an almost 13 month old daughter, and I am living with my mother. I am currently looking for a job, but am not having any luck due to not having a car and relying on my mom for transportation. I have absolutely zero income. I am sharing a small room with my sister and my daughter. & I am really wanting to get out on my own. Would I be eligible for section 8 housing? I am trying to get on my feet, and section 8 would definitely help until then. No rude comments please. Just looking for advice.
Can I claim back pay on Local Housing Allowance?
LHA calculations are only applicable since the inception of LHA. When it came into use only new claims were under the LHA rules. Current Housing Benefit claims remained the same. It wouldnt have applied to you as you were already on housing benefit it only comes into play now as you have planned on moving. There are now talks about cancelling the whole LHA debacle as it has turned out to be yet another waste of taxpayers money with the allowance being paid direct to tenants and never reaching the landlord and/or the claimant getting more than the rental costs and therefore having an extra 'hand out' from the taxpayer. The system is seriously flawed and I for one certainly do hope that it is abolished.
Did some people in the UK get £100k in benefits?
Yes, if they had large families and lived in expensive parts of the UK.Back in 2009, the legislation was such that:You were assessed for how big a property you neededIf the council didn’t have a suitable property, it would rent one (at whatever rent was needed.)The “how big a property do you need” was never generous. If you were a single person, you didn’t qualify for a house, just a room… if you were a single person with a 3 year old boy and a 4 year old girl, you got a flat with two rooms (one for you, one for the children.)Above a certain age, children weren’t expected to share rooms with an opposite-sex sibling.Above a certain other age, children could be entitled to their own room.So there was an incident widely reported of a family in Brent (an expensive part of London), who had enough children to be assessed as needing a 7-bedroom home.There aren’t many of these anywhere, let alone London. The cheapest the council could find was rented for £2,827 a week from a private landlord.… so cost the DWP (the government department who actually pay the benefit) £147,000 per year.
Why do people in the UK have to pay bedroom tax?
It’s not a tax! Nobody pays it! Breathe, breathe.And… okThe term “bedroom tax” was taken straight from the US Republican Party’s “Book of False Euphemisms Used to Scare People”.A portion of the population receives a housing benefit because, for various reasons, they cannot afford to provide their own housing costs. If said person is receiving housing benefit and has an empty bedroom, the benefit is reduced by 14%. If they have two empty bedrooms, it is reduced by 25%.Its purpose is because in public housing you have some people living in more space than they need (remember this is tax-payer funded housing) and some people who need that space. There are exceptions and exemptions, even for people who need a room for when a carer has to spend the night. Space for disability equipment is addressed on a case-by-case basis.The funny thing is even people on the far Left are opposed to it, which flies in the face of “from each according to his ability, to each according to his need”.The UK has a safety net social care system. It’s important. Vitally important. It’s also expensive. It is the duty of the government to make sure that spending is controlled so it remains in existence.Taxes are paid by people to the government. A reduction in money paid by the government to people is NOT a tax.Personally, in any position on any issue, even if I agree, if you start using misleading euphemisms, you’ve lost me. A lie is a lie, I don’t care what the position is.