Public Sector Pay Increases

Angus said:
Innrelation to housing benefit I was very surprised that Michael Gove came out with a proposal fairly recently that housing benefit could be used to get a mortgage.

It seemed crazy to me. It was taking housing away from housing associations and seemed to be giving people a capital asset from the state.

I wonder if those two vying for high office will adopt it as there own. I’m not sure Mrs T would have taken it on board.
Click to expand...

It's interesting to say the least.
I'm 37 years old and still £10,000 away from a deposit for a house we want. We started saving 7 years ago...
 
Randy said:
It's interesting to say the least.
I'm 37 years old and still £10,000 away from a deposit for a house we want. We started saving 7 years ago...
Click to expand...
Good luck mate, keep going you will get there in the end and it’s definitely the right thing to do.

You may have more luck in the next 18 months prices must fall a bit in the short term.
 
Angus said:
Good luck mate, keep going you will get there in the end and it’s definitely the right thing to do.

You may have more luck in the next 18 months prices must fall a bit in the short term.
Click to expand...
We were told not to bother buying at the moment anyways, only unless we came into a fair bit of money. Just annoying that the rent we pay every month we'll never see a return on but thems the breaks.
 
Randy said:
He kind of has a point though.

You know aswell as we all do there are households all across the TS area where they've never worked a day in their lives yet are still able to afford massive corner sofas on tick, 50" 4K tellies and still live comfortably.

That isn't from the daily mail, that's my personal evidence seen with my own eyes from my time when I was door knocking back in the day. I'm sure it's still pretty relevant today. Of course there are thousands of households struggling too though with food bank use etc, most of which have people in those households working full time jobs.
Click to expand...
If you think you can live a life of luxury on 90 quid a week job seekers then go for it
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top