Originally Posted by tommiasfc (Post 1049511)

People should realize social housing is a privilege not a right.

Originally Posted by MargaretR (Post 1049541)

When you can accept this as fact you can then explore why.
.....and realise that 1984 is nearer than you think.

Originally Posted by Gordon Booth (Post 1049545)

Yes, MargaretR but isn't it comforting to think it's getting further away as the years go by!

Originally Posted by MargaretR (Post 1049546)

You knew exactly to what I was referring.... so don't trivialise an important topic.

Originally Posted by MargaretR (Post 1049544)

The population cull is well under way.
If the junk food doesn't get you, the pharmacutical companies will.
..and if you survive to draw a pension, they will engineer your death by hypothermia.

Originally Posted by DaveinGermany (Post 1049538)

Well they get turned away until they can or they pay for an interpretor.

Back on subject though, here in Germany, if the social are picking up your tab for housing they have no qualms about reducing your allowance if they consider your accommodation beyond that required for your situation, you find the extra yourself or you move, no ifs, no buts, hard & uncompromising.

Originally Posted by Less (Post 1049551)

Meanwhile if that is the way its always been then good luck to the na...sties.

Originally Posted by MargaretR (Post 1049523)

When money is witheld from wages it is named 'tax'.

Benefits are substitutes for wages.

Originally Posted by susie123 (Post 1049534)

Why only European ones?

Originally Posted by susie123 (Post 1049542)

On the subject of migrants, this document makes interesting reading:

EU migrants: entitlement to housing assistance (England) - Commons Library Standard Note - UK Parliament

If you don't want to read it all I have copied some relevant paragraphs below, and page 11 onwards deals with the question of whether migrants jump the queue.

There is no general entitlement to social housing for anyone in England, including British citizens. [Emphasis mine] It should also be noted that even those people from abroad who may be eligible for housing assistance still have to qualify for assistance in line with an authority’s housing allocation scheme, or meet the criteria under which a statutory duty arises to households that are homeless (Part 7 of the 1996 Housing Act (as amended)).

Allocation of social housing
Foreign nationals are eligible for an allocation of social housing if:
in the case of European economic area nationals, they have a relevant right to reside, for example, if they are working, self-sufficient, or have a permanent right of residence in the UK (after five years lawful residence in the UK),
in the case of other foreign nationals, they have been granted leave to enter or remain in the UK with recourse to public funds (for example, people granted refugee status or humanitarian protection).
Where foreign nationals are eligible, they would have their housing needs considered on the same basis as other applicants in accordance with the local authority's allocation scheme.

Originally Posted by Margaret Pilkington (Post 1049593)

If you come into this country without first making provision for accommodation, then doesn't that put you in the category of the 'homeless'?
Aren't these 'homeless' people given priority in respect of social housing?
Somehow, I'd got it in my head that they were...certainly in this country anyway....if you rock up on the Costa del Sol, and present yourself at the Spanish version of the social services offices, I think their response would have 'off' in the sentence.

Originally Posted by cmonstanley (Post 1049600)

there is one reason to include a middleman here to pay rent is the banks,the more money that travel through their accounts the more money they make.plus when they start charging everybody for an account next year they will make a packet.that is what is coming the only way to stop it is to get the tories out and keep them out.