I’d argue with just one aspect of this story: The government aren’t idiots. They know that, now this person is in arrears, they can keep them paying, going further into debt, forever. You thought you were poor, but now you are a cash cow.
“Unable to pay your Bedroom Tax? Move! But you’re in arrears because of the Bedroom Tax, so we’re not going to let you move.”
The government are idiots. (this is a comment to the following post on the facebook page Bedroom Tax…think its unfair…join the fight here)
“I was speaking to one of my neighbours today. She’s disabled and was awarded an adapted house, she’s been trying to move for 2 years because the house is now too big for just her and her husband but hasn’t had any luck. She’s been refused Discretionary Housing Payment, I don’t know why because she should qualify and she has only been able to afford to pay our Housing Association £11 a week. She’s on Homeswapper and has just found out that because she’s in rent arrears solely because of the bedroom tax, she’s had her Homeswapper account restricted, which means she…
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I wish I didn’t agree with you, Mike. But I post this things exactly as they are originally written, typos and all. Just fill in some of the abbreviations, because this is all so complex it’s hard for people to keep up. How the learning disabled and mentally ill are coping with this…. oh, they aren’t
Surely, I am not the only one who is getting increasingly depressed by being
bombarded each day by stories of the government’s unmitigating onslaught
on the most vulnerable of people in this country. I can fully understand that
there will be increasing numbers who will be driven to ending it all by killing
themselves before the government do it for them. I truly believe this government
is on the road to genocide.
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Pay up or (and?) die, says our democratic government