Housing benefit doesn’t exist anymore, people have been pushed onto universal credit instead but the housing element is never in line with the LHAs which in turn are completely out of touch with actual rent costs - you also do no get extra benefits for more
Housing benefit doesn’t exist anymore, people have been pushed onto universal credit instead but the housing element is never in line with the LHAs which in turn are completely out of touch with actual rent costs - you also do no get extra benefits for more
Children , similar to China we now have a 2
child per “benefits family” so I feel your first part at least is not correct, families on benefits also can’t afford large families anymore
Correct but this is a result of Cameron’s government when they brought in the benefit cap around 2016. So we are 8 yrs on approx from then. This resulted also in more London folk having to move out of London. The big families prior to this are still supported with their benefits though.
So as time moves on the next generation will fully adopted the reality that they can’t afford as many kids.
I feel we had to tackle this huge distortion in our societal makeup. It doesn’t make sense to pay people to have unlimited kids and removed the link from how you pay for it all. We just grow very unproductive humans. I have seen so much of this in the last 20 years as I house a lot of HB tenants.
The good news is that more people are taking a bit more responsibility for their lives in these less generous times.
Thanks Mr Frisby, the powers of tech! Didn’t want to nitpick but that’s the reality, back in the 80’s/90’s I did know of people in council houses with 10 + kids — I guess that is why the gov. enacted the 2 child policy- this Country is just one giant social experiment for decades now !
Housing benefit doesn’t exist anymore, people have been pushed onto universal credit instead but the housing element is never in line with the LHAs which in turn are completely out of touch with actual rent costs - you also do no get extra benefits for more
Children , similar to China we now have a 2
child per “benefits family” so I feel your first part at least is not correct, families on benefits also can’t afford large families anymore
Correct but this is a result of Cameron’s government when they brought in the benefit cap around 2016. So we are 8 yrs on approx from then. This resulted also in more London folk having to move out of London. The big families prior to this are still supported with their benefits though.
So as time moves on the next generation will fully adopted the reality that they can’t afford as many kids.
I feel we had to tackle this huge distortion in our societal makeup. It doesn’t make sense to pay people to have unlimited kids and removed the link from how you pay for it all. We just grow very unproductive humans. I have seen so much of this in the last 20 years as I house a lot of HB tenants.
The good news is that more people are taking a bit more responsibility for their lives in these less generous times.
Thanks John.
Many thanks for the note. I have amended
Thanks Mr Frisby, the powers of tech! Didn’t want to nitpick but that’s the reality, back in the 80’s/90’s I did know of people in council houses with 10 + kids — I guess that is why the gov. enacted the 2 child policy- this Country is just one giant social experiment for decades now !