Jan Higgins
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
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Good idea but I think you want the impossible Keith, someone will always find a way to abuse any system.
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I try to be neutral and polite but it is hard and getting even more difficult at times.
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Keith Sansum1
- Location: london
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JAN;
No i don't want anything impossible
even bern posts on accountability
this is one area that lacks in it
present cobbled together govt, like previous govts are just tickling the edges on this one
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Even Bern....?! Tin hats at the ready chaps.
Keith Sansum1- Location: london
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i realise bern you wouldn't want to be associated with any of my comments
just making a point
lol
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Guest 675- Registered: 30 Jun 2008
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Landlords willing or wanting to rent to benefit claimants tend to know the upper limit that the benefit agencies will pay and set their rents accordingly. Nothing to do with "market forces" as such, rather a knowledge of how much they can get on a regular basis and making sure they get their full share. In order to ensure that fair rents are paid for each property it would require inspectors to visit and assess each property. Of course that would necessitate employing sufficient inspectors to do the job, and increase a wage bill you were trying to reduce.
Market forces, certainly these days, have nothing to do with 'fair prices' but rather getting every last penny that is going no matter the worth.
Politics, it seems to me, for years, or all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of right or wrong.
Richard Armour
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Surprised ?....Coalition have not thought their policies through ever to conclusion.
This government has been putting forward ill-conceived policies since day one.......
hence all the many `U` turns....with more to come....Dance Hall....
Keith Sansum1- Location: london
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Shows the problems of dealing with the complex benefits system
so now what????
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howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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a test case comes out in favour of the benefit cap.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-24818747howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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a test case comes out in favour of the benefit cap.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-24818747Brian Dixon
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oh dear what a shame.they will have to get married now.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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they will have to learn to live on 26 grand take home pay from now on .
Guest 1036- Registered: 27 Aug 2013
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It's not to be taken lightly the benefit cutbacks.Maidstone pensioner Charles Barden found hanged at home amid fears of the government's bedroom tax.This happened today.
Eleanor H.
Keith Sansum1- Location: london
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Guest 716- Registered: 9 Jun 2011
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Poorest students face £350m cut in grants
Documents reveal science budget also under threat as NUS president attacks proposals as 'outrageous'
Up to 500,00 students could be affected by the cuts. Photograph: Chris Ison/PA
The Department for Business (BIS) is considering cutting £350m of grants to the UK's poorest students and slashing £215m from ringfenced science funding in order to plug a £1.4bn hole in its finances, the Guardian has learned.
More than 500,000 students from lower income backgrounds would be affected by plans drawn up by the higher education minister, David Willetts, which are being discussed by the business secretary, Vince Cable, and the deputy prime minister, Nick Clegg.
According to internal departmental documents seen by the Guardian the cuts would take effect after the next election in 2015 and would involve converting £1,000 a year from the maximum £3,250 award received by each eligible student into repayable student loans.
Ministers have been advised that converting £350m - around a quarter of the student grant budget - to loans could create problems for participation in higher education of those from the lowest income households. Students whose parents earn between £35,000 and £42,600would likely lose all or most of their access to student grants under the plans.