Saturday 7 January 2012

For years, YOU'VE paid their £2,000-a-week rents. But the housing benefit gravy train's hit the buffers | Mail Online

For years, YOU'VE paid their £2,000-a-week rents. But the housing benefit gravy train's hit the buffers | Mail Online

At the kitchen table, two pretty girls giggle as they draw pictures with crayons. On the wall are posters listing their times-tables, while in the corner, the family’s tropical fish, Bubbles and Tiger, swim in a heated aquarium.
But this happy domestic scene is threatened with upheaval because, in nine days’ time, the Rostant family - two parents, eight children and their pet fish - may be homeless.
Until now, the family have been one of four families claiming the highest amount of housing benefit in the country.

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