And yet some families are able to claim enough housing benefit to fund an equivalent 7 figure mortgage to live in the Boroughs of Chelsea & Kensington...
Benefits families could pay off £1m mortgage - Telegraph
Almost 100 families are raking in enough housing benefit to fund a £10 million mortgage, raising fresh doubts over the Government’s cap, figures released yesterday show.
Some 30 families are receiving £1,500 a week — three times what they would be earning on a national average wage — to pay their rent while another 60 are receiving up to £5,000 a month, according to the Department for Work and Pensions.
All the claimants, who would be able to fund a seven-figure mortgage at those rates, live in the London boroughs of Kensington and Chelsea or Westminster.
In total 130 families are given more than £1,000 a week,including 80 who receive at least £1,100 a week, according to figures obtained under the Freedom of Information Act.
Last year, another family who fled war-ravaged Somalia exchanged a modest home in Coventry for a £2million house in West Hampstead, north-west London. Saeed Khaliif, 49, who was unemployed, was able to sign what was believed to be a £2,000 a week lease for the six – bedroom property despite having no connection with their new area.
It does seem to be in comparison rather shabby treatment for servicemen who will have to find private accommodation on postings not necessarily of their choosing.