Recorded interview under caution help!!!

Kath13

Hello,
I joined this site today hoping for some advice,
I received a letter today (and so did my husband) asking us both to attend interviews under caution at our local council offices next week regarding potential income support, housing benefit and council tax fraud.

I was receiving all these benefits up until end of october when my boyfriend moved in, then we married in November....as soon as he moved in i stopped all the benefits.

I am very worried as to cant think why they would want to interview us now??...we dont claim these benefits.

I'm wondering was I in the wrong to allow him to stay over with me 2-3 times a week?.......plus he used my address as his home address at work because where he was previously staying was a shared house and his mail would go missing.

I am also disabled and he helped me out in those times he stayed with me before i came off of benefits..

I am really worried that I may of broken the law by doing this and get prosecuted..

thanks

simpywimpy

using your address as his home does constitute living there I'm afraid and is one of the key points they use when assessing whether someone is resident or not.

Kath13

So it must be that then....my ex husband also still uses my address for certain things too even though i told him and companies concerned not to,

Looks like im deep trouble then doesnt it......i feel sick

Kath13

Is there no way around this?.....what if he proves he wasn't living with me?...surely its not set in stone...or am i rightly panicking and thinking the worst could happen??

stompin-sarah

as long as you can prove he wasnt living there you should be alright... have u ever had them come out to visit you at the house?

Kath13

No no-one has been here......and he was staying with friends for the last 2 years....so I suppose he could ask them to write him a letter stating the fact?...I don't know what to do

stompin-sarah wrote: »

as long as you can prove he wasnt living there you should be alright... have u ever had them come out to visit you at the house?

sunnyone

Kath13 wrote: »

No no-one has been here......and he was staying with friends for the last 2 years....so I suppose he could ask them to write him a letter stating the fact?...I don't know what to do

Thats no good, anyone could write a mate a letter, he must have maintained his own household and by using your address and staying there you are going to have problems.

Kath13

so am i looking at prison?

bryanb

Kath13 wrote: »

Is there no way around this?.....what if he proves he wasn't living with me?...surely its not set in stone...or am i rightly panicking and thinking the worst could happen??

Has he got utility bills, bank statements etc showing where he lived? Was he on electoral roll at that address? What address is on his driving licence?

Kath13

bryanb wrote: »

Has he got utility bills, bank statements etc showing where he lived? Was he on electoral roll at that address? What address is on his driving licence?

none of the above......im in it deep arent i!...i have a 5 year old daughter and im disabled...what if i go to prison? what will happen to her.....i feel at my witts end now

sunnyone

Kath13 wrote: »

none of the above......im in it deep arent i!...i have a 5 year old daughter and im disabled...what if i go to prison? what will happen to her.....i feel at my witts end now

Prisons unlikely but there are many other punishments IF you get that far, see what happens at the interview and if you are dammed confess and offer to pay it back.