The Great Housing Benefit Scandal

[joebloggs]

private landlords ripping the tenants and the taxpayer off


http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b05s99p1

[grahamw48]

Stupid soft worthless laws and penalties again...making crime and abuse pay....courtesy of the taxpayer.

[andy222]

Swept under the carpet Joe.

[joebloggs]

Swept under the carpet Joe.

by elected MP's

Philip Davies, the master of filibuster and friend to rogue landlords

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk...s-9924580.html

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

[Dedworth]

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

Emily Thornberry probably owns it

[grahamw48]

My council bungalow has just had a small increase in rent...to £72 per week.

[Ako Si Jamie]

by elected MP's

Yup

[Arthur Little]

My council bungalow has just had a small increase in rent...to £72 per week.

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.

[grahamw48]

I'm happy enough Arthur.

It's about a third the cost of my last place.

[London_Manila]

Very much the same as tax credits helping employers to pay peanuts
Taxes help pay for greedy landlords and employers

[grahamw48]

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.

[Arthur Little]

I'm happy enough Arthur.

's good, Graham ... so long as you're happy.

It's about a third the cost of my last place.

Wow ... even better!