Confused - Are we a couple

G51shopaholic

Another point would be why didn't your girlfriend go with you to Switzerland to start a new life together?

blue_monkey_2

So you could be earning 200k pa but give her £50 a week 'housekeeping' or 'maintenance' just so she can claim because it is her right?

Oh dear.

blue_monkey_2

G51shopaholic wrote: »

Another point would be why didn't your girlfriend go with you to Switzerland to start a new life together?

Quite bizarre how the girlfriend is going to stay here with no job or money and a boyfriend who has gone to live 'forever' in another country but comes back once or twice a month.

I'd say you are not a couple and that she has had a lucky escape!!

Why not just buy her out of the house and be done with it for gods sake instead of keeping that poor woman hanging on - you clearly have the money.

kb92830

G51shopaholic,

Yes your right I do contribute but so does any absent parent, in terms of the 12 week rule the DWP also has a similar rule in is the absence expected to be permanent (ie longer than 52 weeks), which in my case it is, I have a permanet employment contract, I have a 5 year residency visa and I am on 6 months notice, so unless I die then it will automatically be over a 52 week absence and therefore we are not deemed to be a couple.

I certainly dont earn 200k per year, she is staying in the UK because we want our youngest child to have a t least 1 year in a uk school, it is for purely personal reasons she is staying there at the moment. In terms of contributing she gets the equivalent of £3k per month for bills etc, its not my fault the DWP and children tax credits see this as maintenance and therefore exclude it as income. It brings me back to my earlier point I did not write the legislation and it is up to the Goverment to re-write it to exclude me if they think it is wrong.

To put this in to perspective, the only reason I came to Switzerland was because it was the first job offered after being made redundant, I was not looking to come here but that is the card life dealt.

blue_monkey_2

She gets 3k a month with one child for 'bills etc' and you are here asking what benefits she is entitled to??? I assume that you are trolling otherwise you are completely taking the p iss!!

babyharry5

your opening line was correct - you are going to get flamed!!

kb92830

Blue,

I am certainly not trolling, I asked a factual question based upon the circumstances, just because you dont agree doesn't give you the right to be moralistic.

As a self employed person can I assume you use all the possible tax breaks available to you? is that wrong or are you being chastised for that. No because you and many others see that as an entitlement, the problem in the UK is that many people have a two tiered view of who and what can be claimed.

duchy

Benefits are not a tax break -they are benefits.....and working tax credit is a benefit in all but name (as told to me by the tax office when I pointed out the amount of overpaid tax credit overpaid by me vastly exceeds a small amount of tax I owe them)

If she wants to claim tax credits she could work 16 hours a week (as your child is at school that shouldn't be difficult) and claim.

kb92830

Duchy,

In name they may be different but the end result is the same, somebody who avoids paying tax through creative accounting and knowing the law is reducing the income of the revenue system by paying (legitimately) less than they would be expected too. Somebody who claims benefits (legitimately) is also reducing the the revenue systems balance of payments, so yes they are different in name but the end result is the same. I will state again this is purely what as an individual you find palateable or acceptable.

But putting opinions behind, I will go back to the original point and say this is a factual question. I dont criticise the self employed, I dont criticise pensioners just because they get a legitimate benefit.

As for my partner being able to work we have two children one of whom is not yet at full time school so working is not an option

blue_monkey_2

Ah, so you have been here long enough to know I am self employed, can you not post under your real name for this or are you hiding something else?

But no, I do not put through 'absolutely everything' and get 'all the tax breaks' so you assumed incorrectly, I put through everything that actually relates to my business and that I use in my business and I have a receipt for. As for stuff I could claim, for tax purposes, to use for my business but actually don't - then no, I don't.