Husing benefits - being abused

[VHG]

I must admit I know little about how housing benefit works, but can someone explain to me how that piece of scum who wants to do that Muslim march lives in a £300,000 house, and yet gets thousands in housing benefit.

Under what situations do you get housing benefit?

It seems housing benefit is costing this country between 15 billion and 20 billion a year (depend who you read).

Surely we cant continue to have a system where so much money is paid out in benefits to keep people in housing?

I have heard of situations here in Birmingham where some immigrants buy cheap houses, then rent them out to each other, living in each others houses and claiming housing benefit.

Does the fact it exists encourage benefit fraud and drive up the price of rents for housing?

[Ankou]

According to CHAIN:

3472 people slept rough at some point in London during 2008/09, an increase of 15% on the previous year's total of 3017 and of more than a thousand since 2005/06.
58% of rough sleepers are new, 26% have been rough sleeping for two or more years and 16% have returned to rough sleeping after a gap of a year or more.
87% are male, 74% are white.
62% are aged between 25 and 45 years with only 7% under 25 and 30% over 45.
Many have one or more support needs - 49% alcohol, 41% drugs, 35% mental health.
40% have been in prison at some point, 12% in care and 7% in the armed forces.
14% are from EU A8 and A2 countries and 4% were from Eritrea.

so twice as many are migrants. i think the bigger issue is mental health and women escaping violent relatioships really.