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Almost 4,000 people in Salford affected by Housing Benefit cuts





Posted by Tony Flynn on 1st September 2010 at 02:48 PM
Almost 4,000 people in Salford affected by Housing Benefit cuts
Almost 4,000 people in Salford will be affected by the Coalition Government’s plans to cut housing benefit by £1.8billion, according to figures released by the Department of Work and Pensions.

The figures show that 3,990 people in Salford will lose around £13 a week under the cuts, which has raised concerns that it will cause an increase in homelessness and debt problems as people fall into rent arrears.

Homeless charities have already warned that the cuts could see thousands of families lose their homes and the independent think tank, the Institute for Fiscal Studies has said that measures contained in the Emergency Budget would hit the poorest hardest.

Commenting on the figures in the Government’s impact assessment of housing benefit cuts, Salford and Eccles MP Hazel Blears said:

“At a time when the recovery is very fragile, it doesn’t make sense to make cuts that will risk increasing homelessness and demand for social services. The National Housing Federation has warned that these cuts could put more than 200,000 people across Britain at risk of homelessness. The Government might keep repeating the mantra that 'we're all in this together' but that's clearly not the case."

Source: Hazel Blears Press Office.


Report as offensive or innapropriate Comment by Guest  5th September 2010
they should hammer thepeople who have been on benefits for years not the ones who have recently become jobless as they want to work the others are just glass backs

Report as offensive or innapropriate Comment by Guest  3rd September 2010
Leave benefits alone and hammer the bankers instead.End of story.

Report as offensive or innapropriate Comment by TomSO ( member )  3rd September 2010
This conversation is veering off topic, any further comments not relating to benefit cuts will be moderated. Thanks.

Report as offensive or innapropriate Comment by Guest  3rd September 2010
First off it is blatantly obvious it is the same twerp asking questions about "socialist reverse colonialism" whatever that means then answering it for him, deluded or what. Secondly, "You the people have just stood by and watched" who made you the mouthpiece for Littleton Road people? the Marxist way indeed, you have been trawling too many right wing sites matey. Salford has a long tradition of not being racist and will continue to do so long after you are gone,. no matter how much you like you it. Grow up.

Report as offensive or innapropriate Comment by Guest  3rd September 2010
They, and I mean the last government want to change the culture of this Country, it’s the Marxist way, and this coalition will just carry on the destruction. You only have to take a walk a Littleton Road its like Africa, we are being colonised, and you the people have stood back and watched.

Report as offensive or innapropriate Comment by Guest  3rd September 2010
good point that id say immigration is socialist reverse colonialism

Report as offensive or innapropriate Comment by Guest  3rd September 2010
is immigration reverse colonialsm? or is it the professional people acting as mercenaries who couldnt care less about their country of origin?or is it the govt way of dumbing down the masses so we will all soon be on minimum wage?,or is it some outside force who want to control us?

Report as offensive or innapropriate Comment by Guest  3rd September 2010
You crack me up mate, "Bigotry..you have to "Goggle" it" we "steal Doctors and nurses" and "the English Dictionary is the finest book in the world", you want to try reading it, you sound like Alf Garnett, mind you he was funny.

Report as offensive or innapropriate Comment by Guest  3rd September 2010
good on yer last guest i have never looked at it that way in taking professional people from third world countries we are not allowing their own countries to progress we are the ones being selfish in the so called name of racism

Report as offensive or innapropriate Comment by Guest  3rd September 2010
Wow. That's barely coherent.

Report as offensive or innapropriate Comment by Guest  3rd September 2010
Typical left wing rhetoric, as soon as you mention anything about immigrants the same old words are used to try and scare people, Bigotry you don’t even know what it means until you Goggle it. Where’s all these shops then, and if you mean immigrant culture = curry houses then you don’t know culture. It seems to me that every Asian is a chef that’s a great culture. Doctors and Nurses is that a culture as well, stealing Doctors and Nurses, (that’s if they really are what they say they are,) from third world countries is nothing to be proud of, it just turns our national health service into a third world practice. A trip to spec savers is due; if you cant see the damage immigration as done, not only to Salford but the country as a whole. Have you got a problem with the colour white only you mention it twice, so if you say the immigrant word you’re a racist, well if that’s the case the English Dictionary, the finest book in the world, is a racist book it s in there. It doesn’t effect you because you’ve moved on, Typical fill the place with sh##t and leave the real Salfordians to clean it up.

Report as offensive or innapropriate Comment by Guest  2nd September 2010
You are talking out of your ar*e mate, the sailors at Salford Docks, many of them married local girls and integrated into society opening cafes and shops and helping the local community, many of these families are still living in the Salford area. As for what has any immigrant contributed to Salford, I suppose the Salford Royal hospital nurses and Doctors are all shiny white anglo saxon europeans then, the food shops, culture, music all obviously white in your deluded mind. Let's face it your are looking at Salford through rose tinted spectacles, Salford is our City and it can be their's, give them a chance. Leave your bigoted, racial preducided views at the door and move on, some of has have.

Report as offensive or innapropriate Comment by Guest  2nd September 2010
Like you said, its rough, that’s why when sailors came here they didn’t stay long they, sailed away. You’re a liar, it was more stricter when the docks were open with immigrants than it is now, I know! I was born just over the road and all my uncles worked there. You tell me about the improvements and while your at it, tell me what has any immigrants contributed to Salford they are, and always will be, a drain! on the resources of Salford. Thousands of pounds, taken away from the O A Ps, for translation purposes. WHAT A WASTE

Report as offensive or innapropriate Comment by Guest  1st September 2010
You can't judge everyone on benefits by compareing them to the Flat Iron/Winston clientele, not everyone in Salford is like that. As far as Salford "used to be a good place to live", i think your looking through rose tinted glasses, Salford's always been a rough diamond of a city. As far as immigrants are concerned, that was well under way with Salford Docks bringing sailors in from all over the world, some liked it so much they stayed.I'm a Salfordian through and through and far from it becoming a sh*t hole i think there's been vast improvements with more to come.

Report as offensive or innapropriate Comment by Guest  1st September 2010
How come you can see into the Future, the welfare state as been abused for years, not going to them that need it, just ask all those low life and waste of spacers that go in the Winston & Flat Iron not one of them have worked for years. All you need to do is stop their Housing benefits and tell them they have to pay their own rent out of their Dole money, Simple. They work the system so change the system so they, have to work. Salford is becoming the Low life Capital of the Country, it used to be a good place to live, but if you take time out and have a look round it’s a SH#T Hole that is being used as a dumping ground for all the scum of the third World to spread amongst decent Salfordinans. You talk about the crime rate going up just wait till `they get use to the area and worked out the vulnerable people are, then you’ll see the real crime statistics,

Report as offensive or innapropriate Comment by Guest  1st September 2010
Not all people on benefits are scroungers, most of them have paid into the system at some point, there are many reasons they have found themselves in the position they are in.If you want to abolish all benefits then expect the crime rate to shoot up, after all people,however unsavoury you may find them, have to live.Of course more prisons will have to be built, more police and probationers employed,more courts and court staff to cope with the deluge, all costing billions.I'm glad your in a position where you don't need benefits, but the way things are at the moment that could quickly change. Believe me you will be glad we live in a welfare society.

Report as offensive or innapropriate Comment by Guest  1st September 2010
I'm sorry but I am from Salford and I know a lot of people especially those young mothers with more than one child are in a predicament of their own making. Its time we stopped funding the lifestyles of the bone idle and irresponsible. They don't have to have children today there such a thing as birth control. I have cousins who have never worked in there lives who have had a good time on benefits and I have known of people who are genuine cases who have been refused certain benefits. My heart goes out to them who can't get work it really does but I have no sympathy for them that won't even try and expect the likes of me and mine to pay for it.

Report as offensive or innapropriate Comment by Guest  1st September 2010
ought to be ashamed of themselves, perhaps hazel could donate one of her homes if she feels so strongly, self-serving idiots, whichever side of the political fence

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