Reblogged from Benefit Tales:
Copied from the facebook page ‘Bedroom tax…Think
its unfair…join the fight here’, 4th December 2013
had a scare today due to manchester city council
via a tex message saying to phone the local housing asap as urgent , as i was
out at the time i thought there had been a flood or fire at my flat so rang them
while still out . Me panicking asked them what was so urgent, and they said i
was £600+ overdue in my rent.
After getting my breath back i asked how they
come to this conclusion , her reply was no rent had been paid on my property
since september , I said this was the first i had heard and couldn’t understand
it as my circumstances hadnt changed. She said that a letter was being sent out
to me today saying they were proceeding to take me to court seeking possession.
I became very upset on phone and she said quite strongly that i had better get
on to the benifits office to see why rent had been stopped.
She did say that she had recieved £20 a fortnite
from me which she couldnt understand why, i explained it was the bedroom tax for
my spare bedroom which she claimed she knew nothing of . I tried explaining that
i am disabled and that in sep i had applied for dhp (discretionary Housing
Payment) but hadnt yet got a reply and i was paying it until i heard any
different from rent people.
Eventually she put me through to the benefits
office where i enquired why they hadnt been paying the rent to find out that cos
i had put in for dhp for some reason my rent had been suspended. I was very
upset , after her rattling around in the filing cabinet for some time she came
back on phone and said they will sort out the rent and contact the local housing
that the rent would be re enstated from today. How can they get away with
causing so much grief to us?
