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Fri Mar 22, 2013 7:33 am
hi ,
i have posted info on my appeal, just opened my emails , and found we have had our bedroom tax appeal turned down.
we are in an adapted property which had a small extension added to access the wet room and be used as a bedroom if we ever needed it , if OH could not use the stairs , this was in 1997.
at the time our kids were very young and we signed a new tenancy for 3 bedroom , 2 living room house.
we are now back on HB as I had to give up work again as OH is really really ill, crying as i write this , it just so crap, and they are deducting 25% which means we have to find another £42.00 a week out of our benefits, anyway i got shelter involved who signed posted me legal adviser to appealed it.
the local authority have now pulled a white rabbit out the hat, a letter dated july 1997 from the project manager confirming what they will be doing to the transfer property , which says they will be building a ground floor extension " forming a double bedroom" . this wording was what the social service assessment recommended.
however they issued us with a 3 bedroom , 2 living room tenancy agreement , which we signed , clearly it suited them not to house us in a house too big for our needs !
now they are using that letter as the argument we have a 4 bed property, not the tenancy agreement or rent charged. it feels like they are on a mission to move us .
i hate this whole situation , the week just gets worse and worse , we were told that in addition to his stroke central pain , no front cartilages in both knees , a torn back cartilage in his weight bearing leg, potential blood clot on lung and he is now in class 4 heart failure, he it looks he will be using that dining room as a bedroom after all and they have won the day , but we will have even less money to live on...if there are positives out there , please let me know.
i have posted info on my appeal, just opened my emails , and found we have had our bedroom tax appeal turned down.
we are in an adapted property which had a small extension added to access the wet room and be used as a bedroom if we ever needed it , if OH could not use the stairs , this was in 1997.
at the time our kids were very young and we signed a new tenancy for 3 bedroom , 2 living room house.
we are now back on HB as I had to give up work again as OH is really really ill, crying as i write this , it just so crap, and they are deducting 25% which means we have to find another £42.00 a week out of our benefits, anyway i got shelter involved who signed posted me legal adviser to appealed it.
the local authority have now pulled a white rabbit out the hat, a letter dated july 1997 from the project manager confirming what they will be doing to the transfer property , which says they will be building a ground floor extension " forming a double bedroom" . this wording was what the social service assessment recommended.
however they issued us with a 3 bedroom , 2 living room tenancy agreement , which we signed , clearly it suited them not to house us in a house too big for our needs !
now they are using that letter as the argument we have a 4 bed property, not the tenancy agreement or rent charged. it feels like they are on a mission to move us .
i hate this whole situation , the week just gets worse and worse , we were told that in addition to his stroke central pain , no front cartilages in both knees , a torn back cartilage in his weight bearing leg, potential blood clot on lung and he is now in class 4 heart failure, he it looks he will be using that dining room as a bedroom after all and they have won the day , but we will have even less money to live on...if there are positives out there , please let me know.
