Housing
Well what can I say about housing problems. Well alot to be honest with you. Lets just
call it council landlord were i live who are a bunch of twits. Well I shall fill you in. This
may not be suitable for everyone so please beware of this and I am not going to name the said
Landlords. Everythinh I am writing now is fact and none of this is made up. Right then lets begin,
it all started when we got a form through the post to have a review of our housing benefit. This
was dated in 2009. Only 4 months AFTER we moved into our little 1 bed flat. Well we filled it out
again and sent in what was needed to be ev idanc e of income etc, etc. Then a few weeks later we
was still without rent which was strange as we thought everything was fine, clearly it wasn't.
My Father in law rang up our local housing benefit and asked what the hold up was. They stated to him
that they was still waiting for the payment direct form off our Landlord to be returned to them. So he then
rang up the people and said that the hold up was on their end as they had not sent in the
relevent form for them to recive housing benefit. They said that they would sort it out and we left it at that.
10 weeks later after the form was sent we started to get our benefit back which was good. Well we
thought it was. Anyway our landlord said that we was now in rent arreas well not surpriesed there
due to the fact we had no benefit in place. the rent arreas amouted up to around £700 so we came up with a payment plan
and started to pay it off. Well we thought we was ok and everything was fine. One day we could not pay
our arreas off as we had a massive bill that came in and we was only on £55.55 a week which £10.00 of would of
gone to them. Well we rang them and said it was fine as long as we made the amount back up the following week. Which we did.
How ever this was not the last of it and it got so out of hand that they took us to court. Well the landlord stated we
did not have to go as it wasn't important and with my health problems we decided not to go. Bad move we made there.
It was a bad move that was going to cost us big time. Now tat we went court they said we could pay £5.00 a week which is
all we could pay been on bloody benefits hate them all. Well we got a new figure now and added court costs which now comes to
just over £1000. yes you saw that right over £1000. Which we was shocked about at first but thought nothing of it.
Well we started to pay it and it started to go down slowly thank god. But then we got a letter though the post
saying that our landlord wanted to come and have a chat about things.
Well when She came we let her in and everything was going fine. As it was near christmas of 2009 we asked if we could have
a break with paying and restart at the beginging of the year. She said yes thats fine aslong as you start to repay it back by 10th
Jan 2010. Which we did. That year we thouht they was been kind but little did we know that by the time the 10th Jan came around the rent arreas
went up again and it went back to just over £900. which was a very big shock to us. How can something increase like that so much in little time
it was only 2 weeks we went without paying the arreas off for the christmas period. Well i rang up the
head office and demanded to see housing rent statment from what we paid since the benefits restarted.
Well they did send them and everything looked ok and we could not figure out why or how it increased when it shouldn't of done.
Anyways we said nothing of it and paid anyways as we thought well we must owe it.
A month or two later we got another rent statment off them only this time it read diffrent the money we been paying
was not showing like we had not been paying them. Well we got another letter thought the post and again
our housing officer was going to come for a chat.
To Be Continued Sorry was way to late for more.
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