Homeless

[BeardyMan]

(29 January 2013, 14:48)Metroyeti Wrote: Housing benefit is 220per month if your under 35majority of rented accomadation is double that, so if you dont have a job your buggered, spend your limited savings(if you have any) then your up shit creek if you dont get work quickly, this country is making people homeless but we are all in it together?

Dude, where do you live?! £220 a month is shit!! I used to get well over £100 per week in housing payments when I lived in Peterborough. They were a bit strange though, I called and told them I had a job, so stop paying me. They kept paying. I wrote them a letter, followed up with a phone call - they kept paying me. I faxed them the letter, then sent one recorded delivery - they kept paying me. I had to go into the office in person in the end to get them to stop sending me money!

All councils pay different rates of housing benefits. When we lived in Marlow I enquired about the housing benefits as I suddenly lost my job, they were going to stump up £800ish, and I would have had to have found the other £250 to meet the rent. Was going to take 6 weeks to sort out though and the landlord wouldn't wait.

You can get the councils to pay for site rent on a caravan site, if you can find one that is open all year (touring caravan)