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20th April 2015 #1
The Great Housing Benefit Scandal
private landlords ripping the tenants and the taxpayer off
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b05s99p1
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20th April 2015 #2
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Stupid soft worthless laws and penalties again...making crime and abuse pay....courtesy of the taxpayer.
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20th April 2015 #3
Swept under the carpet Joe.
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20th April 2015 #4
by elected MP's
Philip Davies, the master of filibuster and friend to rogue landlords
I mentioned in a previous post about why council houses should not be sold off, one near me, a couple who lived there bought the house, they sold it, its a buy to let now, and its on the market at £575 a month, if it was still a council house it would be around £400 a month, so who ever is renting it, if they are getting housing benefit, its cost the taxpayer £175 a month more
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20th April 2015 #5
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20th April 2015 #7
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My council bungalow has just had a small increase in rent...to £72 per week.
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20th April 2015 #8
Hmm ... when my first wife and I were allocated the semi-detached house - where I continue to reside (along with Myrna, of course) forty seven years later - it was a newly-built council property, comprising all mod cons ... for which the weekly rental (inclusive of rates) was £3-7s-6d.
Within say 12 months of our occupancy, the Council had decided to increase the rent + rates by today's equivalent of 121/2p to £3-10/-(£3.50 in other words) - causing an uproar among tenants and also resulting in a mass protest held on a piece of wasteground created by the demolition of the old Queen's Barracks that had been vacated several years earlier.
... aye ... ... changed days.
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20th April 2015 #9
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I'm happy enough Arthur.
It's about a third the cost of my last place.
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21st April 2015 #11
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Very much the same as tax credits helping employers to pay peanuts
Taxes help pay for greedy landlords and employers
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21st April 2015 #12
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Yep....there will always be the greedy scumbags of society ready to take full advantage of our welfare system that is so full of loopholes.
A golden opportunity, enabling them to exploit those weaker than themselves.
They come from overseas in their droves too, like a plague of rats, to join the feast. Unbelievable.
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