It's the end of June 2026 and I am still seeking refuge with friends and family - because I am still too afraid to actually live in the flat.
My Housing Benefit payments were stopped again in January 2026, two weeks after being put back into payment and the arrears were paid in full. My landlord is again seeking Repossession of my home, because of rent arrears caused by their own malfeasance. This is currently at Stage 3.
This whole fiasco has been difficult for me, but it has also affected my family and friends, putting a severe strain on my relationships. The knock on effect is that I have little interest in starting new friend ships.
Further issues have arisen with the Housing Benefit Team now demanding that I forward bank statements again. Additionally, they are again demanding that I provide details of where I have been staying and when. Seemingly, this is continuing with the objective of proving that I do not live at the address and therefore not entitled to the Housing Benefit I have been receiving.
This action provides me with more evidence, evidence of this particular type of institutional bullying - known as "gas lighting". The Assistant Director of Housing Benefit Team at Calderdale Council has failed to act upon any of the other information which I have provided, several times. It is also evidence of the Housing Benefit Assistant Directors lack of knowledge regarding the legal framework under which she is persueing this objective, on behalf of my landlord without regard of fairness or equality. This amounts to Professional Negligence of the legal statute, the local authorty's Public Service Equality Duty. Funny how Together Housing are guilty of the same negligence. The whole regulatory landscape appears to operate this way these days. WTF ?
DSAR = Data Subject Access Request. Referring to the Data Protection Act, I previously mentioned sending out nine letters in January 2026. As of today only two have responded. The ICO basically said they are not interested. Together Housing responded to the DSAR by sending a hyperlink in an eMail, which was supposed to give me access the the records which I had requested but it did not. I replied to the eMail, pointing out that I was not able to access the information which I had requested. I asked for it to be resent in traditional printed on paper format. They have yet to respond.
Dream on, I am waiting for a new social worker.
This time around, it appears that I do fall under their criteria. I do not know if this is because I have been hanging around Oxford for so long or if it's the Sage 3 Reposession notice from the landlord, or the Housing Benefit Team failing their Public Service Equality Duty. I rather suspect, and secrety hope that it is the latter. Anyway's I curently have an assigned support person called Claire. Claire understands how I feel overwhelmed with the administration, especially considering the ammount of maladministration and malfeasance which I have alleged. Claire has asked the Social Service Adult Neurodivergence Team to send her a copy of the Care Needs Assessment which was conducted in August last year, and which has laid buried ever since. See below for a summary of that Care Needs Assessment.