Eating less to pay the extra ‘tax’
There’s lots going on in the front room this morning. Bags of soil and stacks of flower pots Vanessa and Carl are discussing whether the bulb planting activity they have planned for later should be out...
View ArticleA double whammy
Before we’ve even sat down Lyn has started to tell me her story and can barely contain her rage. Over the last couple of years she’s been hit by a double whammy of government policy changes that has...
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continued from… A double whammy Faced with reduced housing benefit, tenants have a choice. Either they opt to adjust their budgets to take into account of the reduction or they move. Neither option is...
View ArticleDownsize? If only
Rob is telling me about the four clients he has seen this morning. Two of them have issues around the bedroom tax or, as he correctly calls it, the under occupancy surcharge. “For this one client, it...
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