Could this be a budget cut?

At my time working for the council i realise that much money is lost through bureaucracy and protocol (usually put under the heading 'their rights' and used in regards to poor people), but just this week i came across the funniest waste of money ever. Coming from a background where you are expected to look after yourself (indeed i had my first job at 13 laying tables in an expensive hotel), i still cant get used to the reflection of this in the section of society that inverts my desire to look after myself by expecting the government to help them out with anything they need. Below is the best example (and true!) that i can find:

Sandy (14) and her unemployed mum live in a council house. They both receive disability allowance (£600 a month) along with job seekers, housing benefit, and child tax credit. Despite proclaiming to me, 'oh, we are clinical about our cleanliness', the house is so dirty that it needs industrial cleaning, and yes, the council pay for this, despite it being their dirt and lack of cleaning. However, the house is so bad that Sandy and her mum have to be put up in a B&B at the councils expense during this time. Alas they also have a dog, so he is sent to kennels- fully paid for the duration. On the day the family are due to return, they refuse to re-reside in their council house as they claim it is a health hazard- lets just revisit who made this mess -them. After much mobile phone chat backwards and forwards over a few weeks, after all none of this is inconveniencing them, it is decided that they must let the fumigators in, and then negotiate with them about what rotten furniture may remain and what must be thrown. In the end, negotiations were called off and everything was thrown away. So after a few more months of delay and negotiations about various minor issues, the family have been found a new, CLEAN house, with new furniture paid for by charities and the council.

So yes, these wastes of money happen everyday, what doesn't happen everyday, and led me to write this, is that whilst they lived in a B&B at the tax payers expense due to making their own house uninhabitable, and their dog was in kennels due to the B&B's rules, and despite them still receiving more in benefits that i do in salary- we paid for travel warrants (tickets) for them to go and visit their dog!!! How many visits does the council think is appropriate for this? I think none. Sorry dog. Not unless they want to use their easily waited for money to do it.