This is likely to be one email amongst many and a pretty pointless waste of my time, but here goes. Whilst I am certain nothing with come of opposing the scrapping of LAFHA, I feel that the implementation of a policy which has seen our family income reduce by almost a quarter in the space of 6 weeks is morally repugnant. 457 visa holders obviously have no voice as they have no vote. for the policy to be fair we should have the 2 year transitionary period like all recipients of the benefit - where is the justification in allowing some this and not others? You will not be in the least interested in our situation, indeed you have probably not read this far anyway, but I'll continue. We will be financially devasted by this decision. My partner's employers won't pick up the tab. We will return to the UK jobless and with no real liklihood of gaining the employment will willingly left to come to this country. We have two young children and a large mortgage. The liklihood is that our home will be repossessed and our children homeless. So thanks for everything - this has been such a great experience. You need to realise that you are making decisions that affect people's lives, people who have studied hard, never claimed benefits, never broken the law, tried to give their children a good start in life to have their entire future ruined by this policy. Thanks again.