Housing fears
WENDY Morrison, 51, of Aspley, and Susan Henderson, 37, of Canning Circus, will both be stung by the new "bedroom tax" from April.
Ms Morrison, who lives with her 12-year-old daughter in a three-bedroom house in Bells Lane, said the £40 loss in housing benefit a month would have a big impact.
Working 16 hours a week in a bar, she said: "My daughter will lose her pocket money. It will kill us. I was told to take in a lodger. No man comes in my house, no strange woman comes in my house.
"But if I don't pay the £10 extra a week, we'll be evicted."
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Ms Morrison, who has lived in the house for 13 years, added: "Why should I have to move out of a community that I've been in for that long?
"It makes me feel sick. I'd have to bid again [for a new house] but I've been told it would take two years because there's not enough two bedroom houses."
Ms Henderson, who lives in a three-bed house in Portland Road, Canning Circus, faces the prospect of moving her two sons, aged five and nine, into one room in a new two-bed house. The Government says children of the same sex under 16 must share a room. But Ms Morrison, who believes her oldest son might have autism, said: "He needs his own space, he loves his own space."
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by KAF49
Wednesday, February 13 2013, 11:30PM
“Honestworker....you speak for many of us !!!
SBBahn.....the difference of course being that those NOT in receipt of housing benefit ,are paying rent which already allows others to be subsidised.Surely you do not advocate penalising them further.”
by SteveBasford
Tuesday, February 12 2013, 8:24PM
“The real scandal being, that some folk think
its okay to stay in subsidised housing for so long, regardless of rooms.”
by honestworker
Tuesday, February 12 2013, 5:21PM
“Roland who is a single mum? I'm unsure who you are referring too ??”
by honestworker
Tuesday, February 12 2013, 5:18PM
“Roland who is a single mum? I'm unsure who you are referring too ??”
by honestworker
Tuesday, February 12 2013, 5:16PM
“Roland who is a single mum? I'm unsure who you are referring too”
by honestworker
Tuesday, February 12 2013, 2:51PM
“Roland? I'm setting my daughter a bad example by going out to work, not sponging of the government and making a carer for myself?? I don't think so!”
by roland
Tuesday, February 12 2013, 2:43PM
“Your hazard at a guess about me is wrong - just like the rest of the drivel which you have written. Not everyone in social housing is unemployed nor are they ne'r do wells. You've just been conned into believing that by the likes of the Daily Mail - right wing, sensationalist, bigoted rubbish.
Furthermore I would suggest that you are setting a very bad example to your daughted in peddling such selfish lies.”
by honestworker
Tuesday, February 12 2013, 2:18PM
“Roland? am I to guess you are a non worker that lives off the tax from the hard working people? the reason I say this is because 99% of working people who work hard all month just to keep their home over their heads will be annoyed by people who are in council properties, that don't bother working moaning over being charged for a room they are obv don't need, a council house the same size as what I live in now would cost around £300 a month, that a non worker would get benefits for, but yet I pay out half of my hard earned money each month but yet don't moan to a soul! I'm proud that I don't sponge off the government, and I'm proud I'm setting my daughter one of the most important lessons in life and that's to earn a honest living to provide for yourself and family! Not to sit on the sofa watching daytime TV, soak up benefits left right and centre and then sit moaning about it, so I would have to say the only rubbish that is being spoken is from the people in this country that feel they have any right to complain about our government finally starting to sort this mess of a benefit scamming country out! good on them I say and its a long way off but at least they are doing something!”
by geordieal1
Tuesday, February 12 2013, 1:58PM
“this is the first step by the government in pushing our benefit hungry society into looking after themselves and not just lying in the comfy bed provided by the current benefit system. thats why all these people now think its their right to live as well as those who contribute to the system.”
by roland
Tuesday, February 12 2013, 1:56PM
“Honestworker and ukspants
You're both talking rubbish.”