Hi all. Long time listener, first time poster.
Left school 16, Apprenticeship same year. Full 4 years in college, exteded by company to complete HNC. Youngest, most qualified electrician at Company and college.
Industrial, commercial and " house bashing" domestic. Installations then maintenence and more revent years testing comissioning and verification.
Then hips went!
After 6 years on waiting list, first one replaced.
Knowing it was the end of my practical career, gained a teaching qualification.
Guess what? No one wants to employ a 60-year-old man with bad hips.
On Universal Credit, with Limited Capacity to Work extention, higher rate PIP and standard DLA.
Discrimination only counts when you can prove it.
My family treated me well, but need own place.
If youāre going to drive up cost of housing for your own future investment. Pushing the property balloon further from the reach of young people making a start or progessionals like myself, finally, all out of luck. Give us a chance to rent off you.
Does no DSS mean no one on State Pension?
In a world with Zero hour contracts, and āgigā economy, when will the HAVES give a hand up to the HAVE NOTS?
I know its not easy being a landlord, and getting harder. The āslackersā on DSS, lets update DWP, are already working council and social housing. Meaning the " out of luck" wanna be tenants, the business losers, the injured trades people, the single parents for numerous reasons. Need less government money and more government supported housing. Try not to limit their potential by denying them a bed.
In an ideal world Iām sure most of us would. But when it takes 12 months to evict anyone with little chance of getting any money back, itās hardly surprising the shrinking pool of landlords want only āAAā tenants that they can insureā¦ many of us insure against getting no rent paid and having to evictā¦ and the insurance companies will not cover dss.
It sucks. But landlords behaviour is driven by such circumstances. Iām sure youāre great, but Iām not risking 20k on people that sound great, I need to insure it.
Re state pensionā¦ generally anyone on only a state pension would not pass affordability checks. But it will be taken into account for payment as will any other private pensions and verifiable incomeā¦ but not benefits such as housing benefit.