Middle-class homeless couple now sleeping at Heathrow Airport
 

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Fella its your own fault.


[Mr Lane and Ms Smith had to give up their home in Poole, Dorset, 18 months ago, after a string of bad luck and poor financial advice. ]

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...#ixzz3R5MlpTdp

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Seriously! A fund to give them a new home. They lost it through their own extravagances, not willing to downsize their lifestyle and poor choices. Had they sold and moved to a cheaper part of the Country they could have had that cosy retirement they dreamed of.

How do you know its his fault?? Very judgemental and ignorant to assume you know their story

The link gives very little information on why they found themselves in this situation. Are you saying its their fault because they never signed on for jobseekers allowance?

And you're assuming it's his fault because...?

The paper reports the couple have an income of £1,400 a month, of which £300 is spent on paying for storage for their furniture and £485 goes towards paying back their loan repayments.

This leaves them just over £600 a month to live on. They spend two nights a week at a £50 B&B a short bus ride from the airport so they can wash their clothes.

http://m.bournemouthecho.co.uk/news/...g_of_bad_luck/


sorry but if you are in that state sell your fecking furniture you dozy pair

If they have enough to spend that amount on staying in B&Bs and so much furniture they have to pay for extra storage they shouldn't be claiming benefits imo.

They won't be able to sign on because of what they are recieving but they can apply for emergency housing. They could easily freeze their debt and free up the £485 which would allow them to rent a flat further north or in East Anglia; that would allow them to empty their storage container which again would free up a further £300 and the £300 would easily pay their council tax and electric bills.

Sounds like the sort of help this couple need is guidance. They've just got themselves in a rutt.

Madness

They can move to a cheaper area and rent for the amount they are paying for the B&B and furniture storage.
Whilst I have some sympathy for anybody falling on hard times, you really have to sit down and think the best way forward.

Dare I say it, but if they have reached that age and literally have NO ONE, not one friend, who can offer them a room for a while... Then they've sort of failed at life in more ways than one? I can think of four or five people off the top of my head who would take me and my partner in if we had nowhere to sleep, and I'll be honest, I'm pretty ****ing anti-social.

Hmmmm, now an online fnd has been set up.
Call me cynical but I thnk this is a load of garbage, no way those wrinkles are only 62 either.

How can they live at Heathrow?

Yeah you wonder how many more stories like this might start to pop up, I'd want to be thoroughly aware of the whole situation before I donated anything, with this couple it all seems a bit suspect

I agree.

A fool and his money are soon parted.

They're middle class and yet are homeless? What are they upto? I can't help but be suspicious.

Couple of hustlers for sure.

This tbh. Sell the stuff you don't need, as much as it may suck, it's better than sleeping rough. :crazy:

Also £600 a month is tough to live on but it can be done, but if they didn't pay for storage they would have just over £900 a month to live on, which is what the average people get paid on minimum wage after tax, so they have no excuse. Just too stubborn/picky to make the sacrifice and instead have a fund set up for them?

Where are the individual online funds beggings for those that actually struggle?

'£20,000 bank loan they took out in 2011'

what bank would loan that amount to someone with no income?

All financial institutions will also accept reduced payments now. They are either incredibly naive or hustling for money. People manage to feed, clothe and house a family of 4 on what they get. Swallow that pride, sell your **** and don't rely on the generosity of others

Someone send this article to Katie Hopkins :laugh:

I went through a period of living on less than £600pm not too long ago..I managed to survive.

Someone set a fund up for me pls :'(