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‘Get me back to Belgravia’: Mother of six demands she is re-housed in exclusive suburb after a cap on housing benefit forced her out of £2MILLION home  

Taking the taxpayer for a ride

Miss SD has 6 children and is on benefits, she lives in a £2 million 4-Bed room town house in Belgravia, near Sloane Square which is one of the most exclusive areas in London.  Her total rent of around £4,800 a month is paid nearly entirely by the State. 

Because of budgetary constraints forced on us by world-wide economic decline, the government had to cut corners to keep the country afloat.  Therefore new rules for those on benefits was fixed at maximum of £400 a week (About £1,700 a month) for rent; consequently those living in more expensive areas like Miss SD must have to relocate.  The Council gave her £10,000 gratuitously to help towards her relocation expenses; she contested it and asked for £40,000 instead.

To add insult upon injury, she is now asking the Council to return her back to Belgravia from Edgware where she has been living in the past 2 months or so.  Her reasons are her studies and her children’s schooling.  Worse still, she went to the High Court and lost her application to stop the Press from reporting the story of her claim - If she had a noble cause she would surely want the world to know about it.

(Contrast this case of Miss SD with the story of Mr. and Mrs. R narrated below) –

Living by the sweat of their Endeavours

The Rs started off together very early in life when they were in their teens. The couple has to date given birth to 16 children, 9 sons and 7 daughters, the whole family live together in a 9-bedroom house which they bought after the birth of their 6^th child. They don’t claim any state handouts; the husband runs a successful bakery in Lancashire and leaves home for work at 4 am every day and their 2 oldest children also work in the bakery.

Editor’s Note: 

1) To read the full story of both Miss SD and the R family, visit my Twitter page on Thursday, 28^th March 2013: @Patkehinde

 2) No view is held or expressed on the size of either family, the issue here is; dependence.