Recorded interview under caution help!!!

tincat

http://www.direct.gov.uk/en/MoneyTaxAndBenefits/BenefitsTaxCreditsAndOtherSupport/BenefitFraud/DG_10035820

This comes up on a search. I'm sure if you're honest it will just be a fine / repayment. I can't imagine them wanting to prosecute. Luckily your husband must be working if you're not on benefits now. Good luck

Kath13

I wouldnt lie about his mail coming here...he also works for the council (who are interviewing us) so they know already....and i get dla lower rate for care, hence him coming over previously to help out, (before we started going out together).

i didnt realise it was an offence to claim and have someone else's mail come here

sunnyone wrote: »

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.

DX2

Can I also add that the 2-3 day rule for a boyfriend staying with you actually doesn't exist.

Kath13

thanks but he never was on benefits, it was me...and when he moved in, in october we both went to the jobcentre together and i came off benefits.


This comes up on a search. I'm sure if you're honest it will just be a fine / repayment. I can't imagine them wanting to prosecute. Luckily your husband must be working if you're not on benefits now. Good luck[/QUOTE]

Kath13

What rule? I didnt mention a rule...but it was fact he did stay here 2-3 times a week

DX2 wrote: »

Can I also add that the 2-3 day rule for a boyfriend staying with you actually doesn't exist.

aj2703

dmg24 wrote: »

Am sensing a thread where we need to use the MSE benefit of the doubt, in which case I'd best keep my mouth shut!

You should do that more often. Alot of people would benefit from that....

DX2

Kath13 wrote: »

What rule? I didnt mention a rule...but it was fact he did stay here 2-3 times a week

So your benefits should have been adjusted to reflect this.

Oldernotwiser

Lots of people think that there is a rule that a BF can stay for a certain number of nights a week and not have their benefits affected, but there's no such thing.

As your husband seems to have absolutely no proof that he lived elsewhere during the period involved then they're very likely to believe that he was living with you at the time and that you were claiming benefits you weren't entitled to. Hopefully, if you're open and honest with the investigation you may avoid a prosecution and only have to repay the benefits you received. Even if they do decided to prosecute, a custodial sentence seems to me to be exceedingly unlikely.

Kath13

Yes I was awarded Dla care component for help

DX2 wrote: »

So your benefits should have been adjusted to reflect this.

Vader123

Kath

First off don't worry about prison.

The problem it sounds like you have is that you have been claiming as a single person, yet living as a couple.

There are no set rules about living as a couple, you could live under the same roof as someone and not be classed as a couple, or never spend a night there and be classed as a couple.

They look at things like

1) Where is his mail going?
2) Do you eat together as a family?
3) Do you shop together?
4) Do you share bills (meals etc).

It does look like you fail on the mail issue, and that quites a black and white test (eating together can be a bit fuzzy). There is no "set number" of nights either someone can stay over, its a all well rounded test to see if you are living as a couple, but claiming as a single.

Whats likely to happen is that you will have to payback any benefits paid while this was happening, this can be stripped from future benefit entitlement.

Vader