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Email your MP - Social Housing for Ex Servicemen

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This site like many others has given great coverage of the plight of ex-service personnel and social housing. I would ask those that have not signed the petition yet, to please sign it. I know we will be able to help others in the future, but we must continue to keep pressure on our political masters. The Royal British Legion and other organisations are showing their support and asking for a change in legislation. The AFF brought it to the attention of ministers last week in a meeting. This issue will affect someone you know in the forces in the future. Please show your support, sign the petition and email your MP asking them to support EDM 288.

http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/forceshousing/

Thank you

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I received the following today. As you will see dialogue between the DCLG and the MoD is happening now. I'm still waiting for my questions under the FOI from the these two departments. I would like to know how many service leavers or serving soldiers could afford the Key Worker Living programme.

The ESAG is the group that looks at homelessness of veterans in London, who looks at the homelessness of veterans around the rest of the country? http://www.veteransagency.mod.uk/homelessness/ex_serv.html

This is not the time to stop emailing your MPs, keep asking them to support EDM 288, you can signing the petition. We require to keep up the pressure on the government.


Regards

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Just e mailed my MP but he is in the labour government. I don't think he will read it because he is never seen around here, came when he got elected, he defected from the tories and was given an ultra safe labour seat. Bought a house round here then sold it for a profit and went back to his rich wife down south, come the next election and we'll get rid of him then. People have seen through him altough it is said we could have a monkey standing for election and we'd vote him in.

Long live REAL LABOUR
 
The following was given to me by a person, who's name and trade will not be given. As you will see she tryed to do the right thing and got on the property ladder. However, the rules under which the LSAP is given is doing more harm than good. This person agreed for me to share the letter with other users.

Plese keep on emailing your MPs, even those in the Ladbour Party have to respond. Don't forget to sign the Petition as well.

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I am a single parent and have served my country for 17 years. I have been told that when my son finishes full time education I will no longer be entitled to SFA and will have to either kick my son out into the streets so I can be accommodated in the SLA or I find private hirings. I decided to look to the future and purchase my own property with the help of LSAP. Unfortunately I could only afford to buy a property in Scotland xx xxxx xxxx xx (Cpls wages!!) where my brother lives even though my unit is South England. I love my house in Scotland and I travel there every leave period, PH etc at considerable cost. So I now pay rent, council tax and bills for my SFA and a mortgage, council tax and bills for my own property (under LSAP regs you cannot rent out your property).

I was informed by several colleagues that i should apply for GYH which is £276 per month...yippee this would help me no end. I looked into the rules and regs which seem to mention for ail PCats except mine. Being a single parent I am not entitled.

1. If I were single and living in SLA I would be entitled

2. If I were married and my family lived in our property in Scotland I would be entitled

3. If I had a common law partner who lived in my property in Scotland / would be entitled

4. If, as is the case with a married person here, I was in SLA and my spouse was in SLA at another unit only 5 m/7es down the road I would be entitled and my spouse would be entitled (total of £552 per month)

5. If I rented the property out I would be entitled to compensation each time I travelled to the property to check it was ok but only if I was married accompanied.

However because the only accommodation that the military provides for me as a single parent is an SFA and my son has no choice but to live with me as by law at the age of 12 I cannot leave him to fend for himself in Scotland I AM NOT ENTITLED.

I have taken my case to all the powers that be at my unit and every time I am told tough you should not have bought a house or alternatively as one clerk said to me you should not have kept your son!

Cat 2 are the only Cat not entitled to this privilege..............Help me please as I have only had my house a year (and a council tax bill of £1,500) and I am at financial breaking point. I have to leave my property unoccupied for months at a time as I can no longer afford to go there. I thought I was looking to the future....now I may have to sell my house and wait for the DHE to make me and my son homeless when he leaves school, something which they did to a friend of mine last year forcing them to leave the military.

The military are classing me as a married woman accompanied by her family and spouse when it comes to GYH. So I applied for concessionary warrants which are granted to families when the head of the household is on tour out of areas. On application I was informed that my family are not entitled to warrants as I am single and not married.

It appears that because I am a single parent that it is ok for me to be classed as both married and single depending on which rule is more financially viable for the military.

I am single so please afford me the same rights!!
 
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The petition is going well and I've noticed that a LT Col has signed with his rank, good on him. The EDM has got two more MPs signed up, one Tory and Labour. Well done to all those that have emailed their MPs as well as those that have signed the Petition.

I hope you will ask family and friends to sign the petition and email their MPs.

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Just found this thread and I fully support the initiative. When I left the local housing people were totally useless, according to their criteria my wife and I were at the bottom below two people wanting to live with each other and could prove they had a genuine relationship. Strange I thought being married was proof!!.

The only question they asked was is your wife pregnant or would she be by the time i left the service!!!.

Followed by a statement of well stay in your quarter ( cuttin a long story short) you should be able to string it out for about five months before being evicted!!!. When I asked if this would get me a house or higher up the list. They answered oh no its just gives you somewhere to live for five months.

Come on sign the petition
 
An MP has replied to another supporter with the following statement. She stated "with an estimated £5bn expected to be spent on accommodation and housing over the next 10 years". I would like to point out, this is not a pledge to do so, its an open gesture, some spin. The fact is the Homelessness Legislation discriminates against our serving personnel and their families, as well as our veterans and thats wrong. I was talking with the Shadow Defence Minister at the start of this week at the HoC. I asked him what happened to the 1.6bn Annington homes Plc, gave the government for the purchase of all the service housing. I was told that 100million was placed to one side to refurbish the quarters still in use and the rest went to the Exchequer. The Exchequer has made over 100million in the shared profits sale agreement since 1997 to 2004 with Annington homes Plc. Whilst military personnel that buy the Annington homes only recieve 1% for each full 10 years served. My question to the Shadow Defence Minister was why are service families not given greater discount for the homes they once rented. The shared profits sale agreement should be there to assist military personnel onto the property ladder.

If we want changes made to the way we are treated, then we must stand together. Those in power will continue to spin figures, and lie to all of us.

EDM 288 is pressing the issue of housing for service leavers and will continue to do so with your support. Stage One is for you to Email your MP asking them to support this EDM. Stage Two, Sign the Petition via the link below and ask your friends and family to do the same.

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Just signed the petition, and e mailed my MP. good cause, well worth supporting.
 
I have just signed the petition. The current state of affairs is disgusting to say the least. Keep going Hitback. At last the goverment are starting to listen. A credit to all the hard work, you and others have put in. It's just a shame that it takes people to work there arses off, to bring it public attention when the goverment should have been catering for ex service leavers, on housing matters donkeys years ago.:PDT_Xtremez_28:
 
DrunkenMonki, Captain Gatso, thank you for your support. I was wondering if there was any other way you could get this petition net worked amongst your work colleagues. The armynet has it on their home page now, do the RAF have a similar system in place?

If possible could you send the link to the Petition via the internal email system?

These are just ideas to get greater support for the Petition and the EDM 288. I will be asking the same questions to the Navy gang on RumRation.

Thank you everone for your support so far. :PDT_Xtremez_30:

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I recently left, and got told by the council, your parents are still alive, go live with them,

My mam has distressed me so much recently since I moved home, my illness is worse now than when I was still serving.

So it all works then
 
Noodle, sorry to hear your problems are so bad, the fact is we have so many ex-service personnel surfing sofas and being lost to the issue of homelessness, we forget about the suffering. All it takes is those reading this thread to add their name to the Petition and if you wish to email your MP to show their support for EDM 288.
 
The response has been great thank you. The fact we require to keep it, so please email internally to get more support. I hope to see at least 10 more MPs signed up on the EDM next week. The Petition has done great so lets ensure we keep it going.

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Update on EDM 288, we now have two more MPs signed up. Total of 142 MPs, now placed 32nd from the top of EDMs list. The petition now has 1,555 signatures. It looks as if we should break the 2,000 mark by the end of this week. Thanks to everyone thats help by signing the petiton and emailing your MPs.

Regards
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I've signed your petition mate...It's just a shame that these petitions in this particular form are being cheapened by all the dross ones that have been started up...Like the Bliar juggling one I saw a while ago...Don't think you can beat a good old fashioned signed and delivered to the door of no.10...
 
I would love to have the time to do that, but I don't. I went to 10 Downing Street on the 25th Nov 2005 and handed over a file with all the issues highlighted. The PM and the ODPM were away, and their reply was nothing short of disgraceful.

The EDM is very important and I hope more people will email their MPs asking them to support it. The Petition is there to gauge support and to allow people to openly show it.

Thank you for signing the petition and I hope you will contact your MP asking them to sign EDM 288.

Regards

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Social Housing for Ex Service Personnel

Social Housing for Ex Service Personnel

I can't remember if we've already plugged this petition and I am aware that some say they are a waste of time but the recent motoring one made the headlines so please sign up to this and get your freinds and families involved too.

http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/forceshousing/?signed=a4ad126.4e35f7

We the undersigned petition the Prime Minister to change current housing legislation to stop the discrimination against service personnel when they retire from the armed forces.

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Housing associations and the Government should review housing allocation policy in respect of establishing local connections to ensure that former members of the armed forces are not discriminated against when applying for housing. This in part would acknowledge the important contribution made by Her Majesty's Armed Forces in defending the United Kingdom's national interests; recognise their commitment and professionalism in the service of the country both at home and abroad and further recognises that following the end of their careers in the armed forces many servicemen and women and their families face considerable difficulties in securing housing appropriate to their needs as civilians.
http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/forceshousing/?signed=a4ad126.4e35f7#detail
 
Hu Jardon said:
I can't remember if we've already plugged this petition and I am aware that some say they are a waste of time but the recent motoring one made the headlines so please sign up to this and get your freinds and families involved too.

http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/forceshousing/?signed=a4ad126.4e35f7

We the undersigned petition the Prime Minister to change current housing legislation to stop the discrimination against service personnel when they retire from the armed forces.

More details
Housing associations and the Government should review housing allocation policy in respect of establishing local connections to ensure that former members of the armed forces are not discriminated against when applying for housing. This in part would acknowledge the important contribution made by Her Majesty's Armed Forces in defending the United Kingdom's national interests; recognise their commitment and professionalism in the service of the country both at home and abroad and further recognises that following the end of their careers in the armed forces many servicemen and women and their families face considerable difficulties in securing housing appropriate to their needs as civilians.
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Quite a big thread already about it.......

http://www.e-goat.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?t=3146

Crack on.............:PDT_Xtremez_09:
 
I think the difference was the other thread was all about emailing your MP, this one is about you signing a petition.

There is a difference (albeit on the same subject)
 
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