Stop the bedroom tax - petition

[Total Refurb 10]

Hi, we have just done three jobs in sheffield. For £Hundreds of pounds not Thousands.

Any one with a private house we have blocked up a bedroom door (stud and mdf) so you can wall paper or paint it and we have knocked through to the other bedroom and fitted French doors in one of them and a sliding door in another. It is now classed as a (big bedroom).

Or and the other they fitted a fire retarded curtain ( like acoustic style , like in schools and concert halls.

They are now claiming 2 bed house- not 3

There child comes home from uni later on this year to sleep in the other half of the bedroom- ideal,

Call for a free quote if anyone wants one doing

Tom

[ricgem2002 11]

It only affects those that are getting housing benefit.

 

Its an empty bedroom, one that is not being used; even the Government are allowing for 'special needs'.

its going to affect over 600thousand people nice little earner for the gov .the mansion tax soon got shot down and some on here were sticking up for the rich saying its wrong to tax them why ? if they cant afford it they could allways downsize

[Cyclone 10]

Hi, we have just done three jobs in sheffield. For £Hundreds of pounds not Thousands.

Any one with a private house we have blocked up a bedroom door (stud and mdf) so you can wall paper or paint it and we have knocked through to the other bedroom and fitted French doors in one of them and a sliding door in another. It is now classed as a (big bedroom).

Or and the other they fitted a fire retarded curtain ( like acoustic style , like in schools and concert halls.

They are now claiming 2 bed house- not 3

There child comes home from uni later on this year to sleep in the other half of the bedroom- ideal,

Call for a free quote if anyone wants one doing

Tom

 

Why on earth would anyone with a private house want this doing?

The reduction in housing benefit applies to people living in council houses or having rent paid through housing benefit (which means they can't make modifications like this without permission).

 

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A deduction from your income at source is direct taxation.

This is just the kind of policy ive always associated the tories with,just when a persons at thier lowest point,lets give em a good kicking and nick thier dosh.

 

Taxation would be taking a % money that you have earned.

 

Reducing benefits is more analogous to being give a cut in what you earn, except that people on benefits don't earn it...

[pottedplant 10]

Hi, we have just done three jobs in sheffield. For £Hundreds of pounds not Thousands.

Any one with a private house we have blocked up a bedroom door (stud and mdf) so you can wall paper or paint it and we have knocked through to the other bedroom and fitted French doors in one of them and a sliding door in another. It is now classed as a (big bedroom).

Or and the other they fitted a fire retarded curtain ( like acoustic style , like in schools and concert halls.

They are now claiming 2 bed house- not 3

There child comes home from uni later on this year to sleep in the other half of the bedroom- ideal,

Call for a free quote if anyone wants one doing

Tom

 

So the adult child has to walk through their parents bedroom to get to their own sleeping area?

 

And they have paid for that to happen?

 

And this is in an owner occupied house?

 

Why would people want to do that? Seems totally bizarre to me.

[dhs1 10]

First they came for the communists,

and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a communist.

 

Then they came for the socialists,

and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a socialist.

 

Then they came for the trade unionists,

and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a trade unionist.

 

Then they came for the Jews,

and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a Jew.

 

Then they came for the Catholics,

and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a Catholic.

 

Then they came for me,

and there was no one left to speak for me

 

This is an abuse of Niemoller's words. This thread is not about putting people in (originally) prison without trial for their beliefs

[Bethsmummy 10]

http://www.cafamily.org.uk/news-and-media/important-advice-for-families-on-bedroom-tax/

 

at last someones seen sense

[El Cid 222]

 

at last someones seen sense

 

It should always be the case that people are allowed housing allowance for their needs.

If their needs are for a three bedroomed house then that is what the housing allowance should be paid for. Those needs should be signed off by someone who is keeping an eye on how much we give away in taxes.

We should not have been paying housing benefit all these years for unused bedrooms.

[iansheff 89]

It should always be the case that people are allowed housing allowance for their needs.

If their needs are for a three bedroomed house then that is what the housing allowance should be paid for. Those needs should be signed off by someone who is keeping an eye on how much we give away in taxes.

We should not have been paying housing benefit all these years for unused bedrooms.

 

There is a huge amount of people that are claming benefits that are working but not earning enough to live on. These people are not skivers they have been forced into claiming benefit because due to Cameron and the Tory policies people are having to work part time because there are not enough full time jobs available. Could you please explain where one person living in a 2bedroomed house is going to move to because there are not enough one bedroom properties for them to move into even if they want to. These people are going to be penalised through no fault of their own due to lack of accommodation.

[El Cid 222]

 

Could you please explain where one person living in a 2bedroomed house is going to move to because there are not enough one bedroom properties for them to move into even if they want to. These people are going to be penalised through no fault of their own due to lack of accommodation.

 

I rent privately, I would love to live in a council house with an extra bedroom; council houses (that I know of) generally have double glazing, larger gardens and lower rent.

[lens a tener 10]

plenty of one beds in parkhurst :hihi:

[ricgem2002 11]

I rent privately, I would love to live in a council house with an extra bedroom; council houses (that I know of) generally have double glazing, larger gardens and lower rent.

so its out of jealousy you dont agree would you be saying the same thing if you got a council house then came out of work and had to live on benefits and were penalised by this ?

[El Cid 222]

so its out of jealousy you dont agree would you be saying the same thing if you got a council house then came out of work and had to live on benefits and were penalised by this ?

 

If I was in your position I might well want to keep those benefits, but its fairness not jealousy. What about people living in over-crowded conditions?

 

We should all pay lower taxes, then we might not need so many freebies.