Forums Forums Wirral Information Wirral Council will bedroom tax affect you?

i think i read somewhere you will be encouraged to take in lodgers but i think this will cause problems too as if a single girl starts to live with a bloke they automatically say you must be a couple and benefits wise your treated like one! so if they relax the laws to accommodate this how many couples will try and screw the system saying one a lodger, something else that they probably havnt thought through!!!!

Just a few quick thoughts on this, as I have not paid much notice of it until now....

The houses in our street are all 3 bed, some private some HA, if they rehouse all the ones that are not using all the rooms, the street will be overrun with kids

At the moment there is a nice mix of families and retired people.

Aside from that if you are grandparents and get re-housed in a one bed flat, where are all the grandkids supposed to stay when they visit over the weekends. Likewise if you are separated and have custody over weekends.

The way round it is to have more children and fill all your rooms and claim even more benefit!

Good idea Gov. in principle but you need to think it through further, maybe start with giving people the option to downsize.

haha, the government have not thought it through, each case is different,where are they going to find all the one bed places catering for disabled and frail elderly people easier said than done.

Im on the housing list now & when you bid for a property it says at the bottom you have to be aware or able to cover the amount if you have too many bedrooms.

all ares have empty properties, why not let people have them rent free so they can do them up, then charge rent , council would benefit from council tax off the property,and it would also improve the area.
i am sure their would be takers as many can't afford to buy, and some do not have enough points to qualify,we all know some empty properties by were we live.

As mentioned earlier in the topic but ignored!!!
Are this Corrupt Sick in the head government gonna pay for Animal shelter's to be built and Shelter worker's employed so that all the thousands of abandoned animals that are gonna have to be dumped (because of this pathetic heartless disaster law) can be housed and looked after for the rest of their days???
And will the Government be footing the bill for all the Suicide funerals due to the stress brought on because of this Law and the rest of the working class cuts that they are bringing in???
Because there will plenty of them!!!

the kids may not be as much trouble as the ... that might move in from mutually exchanging properties!! oh and it looks like the government have stopped supporting family values of kids staying with grandparents or family coming to stay from miles away for a weekend and the heartache that some people will go through if they have to lose their family pet to move will be detrimental for some

Me and mrs evel kineval will be going to see about this next week so will report back then guys with any info we have

i think a user plus peep should email this thread to as many local m.p's as poss!

for any wph tenants: included in your council statements received there is an article outlining this predicament of bedroom tax

CATEGORY BEDROOM REQUIREMENT
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Single Person over 15 *********** Can have their own bedroom
Adult Couple *********** Should share a bedroom
Two children under 10 *********** Should share a bedroom
Two children 10-15 of same gender*** Should share a bedroom
Two children 10-15 of different
gender ********** Can have seperate b/rooms
Non resident o/night carer******* Can have a bedroom
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ADDITIONAL BEDROOMS ARE NOT ALLOWED IN THE FOLLOWING CIRCUMSTANCES
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Parents with access to children but who are not the childrens main carer

Couples who sleep in seperate bedrooms for whatever reason

Foster Children

Two children 10-15 of the same gender

Disabled children

Disabled Adults

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Taken from the WPH Money Matters Summer 2012

Just an update folks I havent forgotten as to keeping all in loop just been unable to attend resource due to ill health but will hopefully be going next week

Thanks Rocks