SOUTHEND COUNCIL wants to make sure that foster families who will be hit by the Governments controversial bedroom tax in April will not lose any money. Foster families throughout the UK have hit the headlines this week as they are… Read More ›
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EXCLUSIVE: Camden Council Denies Claims That It Is Moving Residents To Southend
Southend Council have released a statement denying that 1000s of people could be moving from Camden to Southend, following the claims yesterday that the London Council had apparently kicked out almost 3000 housing benefit claimants who could no longer afford… Read More ›
Southend Braced For Influx Of London Tenants: Echo Monday 28th Jan
The front page of today’s Echo carried the banner headline: ‘SOUTHEND BRACED FOR INFLUX OF LONDON TENANTS’, leading to the following article on page 5, following on from my article last week (EXCLUSIVE: London Councils Moving Tenants To Southend) “London… Read More ›
EXCLUSIVE: London Councils Moving Tenants To Southend
London Councils planning to move Housing Benefit claimants outside of the capital are now in talks with Southend landlords. As cuts in Housing Benefit budgets loom, many properties in London are becoming unaffordable, and properties in the seaside town at… Read More ›
Housing Benefit Cuts For Under-25s Set To Be Dropped From Autumn Budget
Todays news reports that Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne looks set to drop the controversial slashing of Housing Benefit for the under-25s from the Autumn Budget statement. The idea had first been suggested by Prime Minister David Cameron in… Read More ›
Getting Back On The Carousel Horse
If you can keep your head, when all around you… It’s become something of a mantra these days. As well as ‘onwards, upwards’ and ‘looking forward, not back.’ These are all the mental notes that I repeat to myself, and… Read More ›
Working Myself Into Debt: Work Doesn’t Pay.
So, I’ve been at the pub for a month now. In that month, I haven’t been able to provide the three months of payslips that the Council want in order to process my Housing Benefit claim. I’ve also worked erratic… Read More ›
