'Benefits shake-up to cost me £1,300'

“can't believe that some tax payers will slate off people on housing benefit-whom which alot are working and topping up the high rents whilst earning minimum wage. yet they don't slate the governments mp's £160pw food allowance, their susidised drinks and restaurants, there travel and second home expenses etc etc......hellooooo these come from tax payers money too.”

“I feel for people like this who genuinely seem to have no other alternative available to them. However it's time the majority woke up and realised that the public is sick of funding free housing for those too lazy to work. I was paying £300 a month to my parents when I was earning £500 a month in wages. It's called responsibility, I suggest everyone complaining about their benefits getting cut take some for their own welfare and get themselves a proper income. My rent now is £900 a month - where is my help from the state? How am I deemed to be less important than those with big TV's, PC's, playstations and Sky TV. I don't have Sky, why does someone on benefits have it? It's a disgrace and I can't wait for the Tories to strip back the benefits even more. Welfare state is a joke, don't like it, go elsewhere...oh wait, you won't get anything close to what you have now will you? My mistake!”

“What kind of despicable pond life would think that it's 'right' that a female soldier who lost an arm and was blinded while fighting for her country, should have her benefits cut and come under pressure to move out of her specially converted two bedroomed council flat? I just can't for the life of me comprehend the kind of mentality that would agree that this could ever be "right" by giving a red arrow

I don't want to know, I just hope and pray that one day either you or someone you know or love, becomes ill or disabled, and you or they get labelled as a "scrounger" by this countries prime minister,”

“Cameron is LYING, blatant and outright LIES when he says pensioners won't be hit by the bedroom tax,
LINK
http://tinyurl.com/a3rd4ke

QUOTE,
67,000 pensioners to be hit by bedroom tax

More than 67,000 pensioners could be hit by the bedroom tax – despite the government's insistence the controversial policy will only apply to people of working age,
Exclusive research carried out by the Chartered Institute of Housing for Inside Housing shows there are 67,000 households on housing benefit where one partner is over pension age and one is under.
Although these people won't be hit by the under-occupation penalty, commonly known as the bedroom tax, from 1 April, they WILL be hit by the penalty when they move on to the new universal credit after October.
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Now I know lots of you are rubbing your little hands with glee at the thought of all those "scroungers" getting thrown onto the street by the bedroom tax, but just for once try pausing before you cheer at and celebrate someone else's misery and you might learn something,

Because most of these "scroungers" are IN work, WHAT? Dave didn't tell you that? I wonder why that is then? could it be because he knows lots of you are mugs and only have to hear the word benefit claimant to go into 'hate' mode, they have you SO well trained,
don't take MY word for it, (as if you would) HERE,

http://tinyurl.com/cnqgtjp
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More than 90 per cent of new housing benefit claims over the past two years have been made by employed people, as squeezed workers seek help with their living costs. END

Both myself and my partner WORK but hey, why let facts get in the way of prejudice and hate?

TWO THIRDS of those hit by the bedroom tax are disabled, again, don't take my word for it,
HERE,
http://tinyurl.com/a69ohz7
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According to the government's impact assessment, almost two thirds of tenants affected by the so-called "bedroom tax" are from households that contain someone who is disabled.
660,000 social housing tenants to be affected by 'bedroom tax' 420,000 of these households contain someone who is disabled, END

the governments OWN figures folks. so don't give me a hard time,

My partner is disabled she WORKS, when we moved into this house she worked FULL TIME but her condition has got worse and is incurable and will eventually kill her, but she is such a "scrounger" she continues to work part time, I am self employed and earn less than the NMW so we claim housing and council tax benefit since she went part time,
when we moved she was given a grant to have modifications done to the house because of her illness, WHEN/IF we are forced to move out, wherever we end up will have to once again be modified for her again costing the tax payer even MORE money

I know of one lady who was severely injured while on active duty in the army, she lost an arm, is blind, and had extensive heart and lung operations to save her life, she has a 2 bedroomed ground floor flat, again it has been extensively modified for her needs,... no difference, from April the 1st she will either have to pay or be thrown out,

this WILL be Cameron's poll tax,”

“RE-POSTING the facebook group for all who are worried about losing their homes, we are now 10,548 members strong and growing, we have at least 2 MPs in the group, there are people here who can offer support and advice,

http://tinyurl.com/c92tvg6

Even those who support this attack on the poor are welcome so long as they remain polite, and are prepared to listen as people explain the full implications of this legislation to them, we have already 'converted' about 4 people who initially though it was a 'good' idea,

By the way, Cameron is on record as saying he WILL look at individual cases, so if you are worried, print off a letter and send it to Dave, there are 660,000 (at least) who will be affected by this law, 2/3 of them are disabled, and a very large percentage are IN work, and are NOT the "scroungers~" that the Tories want you to believe,”

“Spot on Dougal,
but resistance IS growing to this ridiculous unworkable unjustified and poorly thought through legislation, despite the media trying to brush it under the carpet,
I know of one lady who is blind and has other disabilities due to injuries received when she was in the military and on active duty for her country, who has had her ground floor 2 bedroomed flat extensively modified, all falling on deaf ears, as this unelected government turns up the heat on any and everyone on benefits regardless of their individual circumstances,
THIS is what happens when we have a PRIME MINISTER who refers to people as "scroungers" it's hardly that surprising that we see attacks and abuse aimed at disabled people at a record high, when the countries leader uses such language,
Expect the Tory attacks on the poor and the working poor to only get worse as we approach, 2015, and the Tories know their time is up,
SOME MP's are beginning to wake up and realise just how unworkable and unfair this stupid law is, expect yet another U turn any time,

There IS a housing crisis but here's an idea for the party that thought selling all the council houses was a good idea, BUILD MORE COUNCIL HOUSES,”

“This lady has two major problems. The first is the Government who require her to make a contribution to rescue an economy from a problem which she didn't cause, but is still paying huge sums, one way or another, to the well off. The second is her local council, and a Labour one at that, who, when asked for help, says, "Pay up, or we'll kick you out." And we'd be wrong if we thought that all dyslexic people could hold down jobs. Remember, she has her mail read to her. Her life has enough difficulty as it is.

Two questions: While the bedroom tax still lives, is there no way that we can demand that the local Council offers real help to her? And if more people are living in the open air, will the Labour Council reintroduce Workhouses? What sickens me about this lady's problem is that we are the sixth wealthiest nation on earth, and we treat our poor as though we are a developing country in the middle of a famine. There must be a simple answer.”

“@ robnoxious - tell the families of those left to die in pain, ignored and robbed of dignity, that the Liverpool Care pathway is about stopping suffering. On paper that was the idea and in some hospitals that was the practice, but too often it is used without the consent of patients or their families, and rather than simply ending treatment which will prolong but not improve life it has been made an excuse to totally neglect patients. The inconvenient pleb who is too ill, or old, to work till they drop is hustled off to die.”

“This is an obnoxious and badly thought out tax which must get a U-turn soon surely.
A better bet would be to re-introduce the Window Tax for properties having say, more than twelve
windows. This would at least give brickies a job when the richer people decide to brick some windows up!!”

“Jobeeone

That is the problem, there is no 'grey' just black or white with some people,
When for the vast majority being on benefits is a very temporary thing, very few people are the typical "benefit scroungers" that the Tories would have us believe,

the vast majority of people on benefits have not always been on benefits, and are looking for work, and would much rather be IN work,
many hundreds of thousands of "benefit claimants" who rely on council tax and housing benefit are IN WORK in low paid national minimum wage jobs, but again, all we hear is "lazy work shy scroungers" makes it easier to 'hate' them, and the herd are more willing to put up with unfair laws aimed at them,”