Well hell, I don't know??? Maybe because those in mainstream life don't need tax-payers money to validate their choices? Ho-hum, guess I'll need to bow out disgracefully now

Respect. I'm guessing you must be ex-military, same as me. Only thing I'd say is check out 'aversion therapy'. Face your fears. Or accept you are defeated and live a half-life like a slave. Please believe me I'm saying this to help, and if I'm not helping I promise you I won't post on this threat again.

Hey sorry, chillax dude. Didn't mean to cause offence. I only found CAG today and it seems an amazing site. Sorry if I offended. My brother's got MH issues and when I looked on the Benefit thread it all seems to be about people trying to justify "why I can't do stuff, I'll never change and it's revolting you would ever ask me to try. So just show me how to get the free money and shut up!" I'm sure this post will go down like a cup of cold sick, so apologies again for challenging you, but reading a lot of these threads, when it comes to MH issues, it sounds like too many people have already given up on themselves, not on the system, but on themselves, as 'incurable, untreatable'... Personally I find that really depressing.

Cheers but it's HB I'm worried about - don't they pay it arrears? So how can I convince a letting agent that I'll definitely get it awarded again if I have to reapply? Who's going to touch me with a barge poll if I have to stop my claim then go through all that **** again on the promise I 'might' get HB from the new LA? I'm really scared now

Please don't take this the wrong way, but are you a doctor or psychiatrist? You seem very sure that you'll never get better? 'Argue for your limitations and they are yours' is one of my favourite quotes. Having read your posts, I'm thinking your issues are MH as many people's here seem to be, (please correct me if I'm mistaken) Therefore, it's very defeatest to say 'I'm untreatable, I'm never going to get better'? No?

Evening all, I'm being forced to move from the flat I've lived in for 8 years at the end of June due to benefit cap. I'm on JSA and after a year of struggling and borrowing from friends and pay day loans I finally admit defeat. I've tried Discretionary Housing Payment, I've exhausted every avenue a man can walk down. Fair enough. London no longer wants poor people in it. I get the message. Sad to leave, but needs must. Will my benefits follow me though or do I need to start from scratch and reapply for HB and JSA when I finally find somewhere that'll take DSS at a reasonable rent outside of Zone 6? I haven't told my JCP advisor or Council yet as it's still a month off, but forewarned is forearmed and all that. Thanks...