Incapacity Benefit, DLA and mortgage interest

quatresbornes

My wife has been on Incapacity Benefit and DLA for just over a year. I work and have been handling the mortgage myself but that's getting very difficult. Can she claim for her share of the mortgage interest? We have 3 children at school - can she claim anything for them as dependants?

Anyone with any ideas?

McKneff

As a husband wife surely the sensible thing to do is to pool all money including 3 x child benefits and pay the mortgage out of that. I'm maybe old fashioned but i cannot understand this mine and yours in a marriage.

No she would not be able to claim mortgage interest payments

The children are also your dependants.

If you post an SOA we could well come up with some cost cutting ideas

With work, DLA, incapacity benefit and child benefit you cant be too badly off surely. Unless of course you have major outgoings.

Anyway, post your SOA and go from there.