Bedroom tax will cause hardship

8:56am Thursday 21st March 2013 in News By Reader letter

LAST Saturday (March 16) I went to Liverpool to a peaceful demonstration to "Stop the Bedroom Tax". There were a lot of very passionate, ordinary people telling how the Bedroom Tax would affect them.

It was encouraging to see so many people trying to stop this injustice. I have emailed Lord Freud twice but have not received anything helpful back from him!

This so-called tax will cause untold hardship to many ordinary people, who are already suffering from the recession. I urge everyone, whether affected or not, to write to your MP or Lord Freud to tell the Government to think again and withdraw this monstrous benefit cut.

Dianne Lee, Ash Avenue, Newton-le-Willows

Comments(8)

Sankey says...
7:07pm Thu 21 Mar 13

It's not a tax it's a benefit reduction tax is something you pay on money you have earned.

If you want to stay in a house you pay for it if not the state will accommodate you.

But you cannot expect the state ( e.g other working people) to pay for you to have a bigger house than you need especially when families are on the waiting list.

Labour if in power would not reverse this but they are making political capital out of it by coming up wth silly expressions like bedroom tax.

I do conceded there maybe individual cases that are unfair but generally the principle is right and fair.

Who speaks for those families on the waiting list?

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chasmcn says...
10:42pm Thu 21 Mar 13

I agree with the letter writer totally unfair osborn has found £100 billion from somewhere "thought we was broke " dont you think some of this money should be used to build social housing too ,not just for private house building giving money so already rich people can get a 2nd home .

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chasmcn says...
7:59am Fri 22 Mar 13

Sankey wrote:
It's not a tax it's a benefit reduction tax is something you pay on money you have earned.

If you want to stay in a house you pay for it if not the state will accommodate you.

But you cannot expect the state ( e.g other working people) to pay for you to have a bigger house than you need especially when families are on the waiting list.

Labour if in power would not reverse this but they are making political capital out of it by coming up wth silly expressions like bedroom tax.

I do conceded there maybe individual cases that are unfair but generally the principle is right and fair.

Who speaks for those families on the waiting list?
There is a letter in the St helens reporter the lady do's not want a bigger house for her family she wants a smaller one but as non is available she is to lose part of her HB only a tory would agree this is fair .You wrongly see it as people wanting a bigger home its about people who want smaller homes .Also 93% of people reciving HB are working is it their fault that they are low paid, pay them a living wage it would take them out of HB .The HB bill as increased not because of social housing costs it is due to the buy to let market and the sky high rents that these landlords charge .

The solution is to build more 1 and 2 bed room property so if i were the Labour party i would come out and say we will pledge to do this at lest it would be a socialist act sadly it is lacking in present Labour Party .

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Sankey says...
9:39am Fri 22 Mar 13

Chasmcn why pepper your arguments with calling people names. You assume I am a Tory but you have no idea as it happens I think the present Tories are useless. Surely its about the strength of your argument this is what the STS forum is about. I agree they need to build more small houses but the present housing crisis is as much financial as bricks and mortar. The ridiculous credit housing boom that brought us to the bring of ruin and made home ownsership all but impossible for a generation now seems to be being repeated by Osbourne. As for it not being someones fault they are low paid I know this sounds harsh but actually it is their fault. And I speak as someone on JSA myself. The notion that taxpayers subsidise large areas of the population and with 300k immigrants coming in at present would finish the country off within 2 years. And whatever solution we have for housing we must get immigration under control or we are wasting our time. I have sympathy with the letter writer but unforunetly the money has run out welfare is a third now of all government spend and our debt to GDP is higher than greece or Italy. We are in danger of heading the way of cyprus in the next 10 years. This is governmernt is not cutting public expenditure despite what Marie Rimmer thinks it is just slightly cutting the rate of increase. If you think things are bad now wait for another 5 years if we carry on as we are letting state expenditure rip.

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keepitreel says...
6:15pm Mon 25 Mar 13

chasmcn,i don't get the reporter so haven't read the woman's letter but find it hard to believe there are no houses for rent in ST HELENS to suit her,or could it be she is only looking in areas she wants to live in and only social housing,i bet if you showed her 3 houses in other areas she would turn them down,if the tax payer is paying for her rent,rates council tax etc etc i don't think she should be able to turn her nose up at any offered to her.

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frankly says...
7:54pm Wed 27 Mar 13

the news tonight stated that from April the housing benefit will be paid to the tenant and not to the landlord also anyone of working age if unemployed will have to pay 20 per cent rent, none of this free living free council tax malarky.i agreewith it, it may get SOME to make an effort to work..Also crisis loans end as well from the dhss, another thats been abused over the years.....i worked all my life and still have to contribute to my rent and council tax, so why shouldnt those on their backsides all day do the same..Bring it on

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jumper says...
9:21am Mon 1 Apr 13

Can you claim to go back to your original house when you get a job,is their a proviso put in the new law for that or could you pay back the deficit so called,when you get a job, which will save anybody having to move

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jumper says...
11:27am Mon 1 Apr 13

Duncan Smith is supposed to have said he can live on £53 a week

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