Under-occupying Islington tenant
Welfare reforms and Housing Benefit.
This morning I recieved a call from Islington Council informing me I was underoccupying my flat and demanding to inpsect my home. I was half asleep at the time and was both shaken and disturbed by the call coming out of the blue like that. This is not the way any local authority should engage with mental health service users. Be prepared for your call...
I spent the day as a nervous wreck looking for support and information on the issue. I feel this will be the final turn of the screw that will make me snap!
I hate this government, I really do. I sincerely hope the Tories loose the next election, and the Lib Dems suffer in the same way. Comments in the media by the public are vile and nasty and these politicians live up to every word of it....
My housing, my mental health care, my son who works and is trying to do the right thing and go to university this year becasue wages are shit and no guarantee of a decent job.
With a lot of evidence, pressure and support I applied to Islington Council 3 times on the grounds of my mental health, being underoccupied and when my son left home. All before these welfare reforms came in. They are screwing me in every direction I turn, the stress is overwhelming.
I was at a point at which I felt I could really make a go of living a relatively stable life. It has taken me years of hospitalisation, and support to get to this place and can now see it all falling apart. I now have to drop everything I had set up for me to make progress and deal with this with my life being turned upside down again. I feel defeated.
) i live in barnet but used to live in islington and am still registered with doc there (14 years later 
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