Living together - does he become liable for her children?

JSB43

Robbie64 wrote: »

I assume that after the death of the childrens father that Widowed Parent's Allowance was put into payment? Either that and / or Income Support plus Housing Benefit and Council Tax Benefit. When the person getting WPA begins to live with someone the WPA then ceases.[/

I'd like to hear more. Bearing in mind the childrens parents were never married to each other prior to his death.

Robbie64 wrote: »

In this case your daughter (?) should be getting tax credits and some Housing Benefit and Council Tax Benefit.

F's benefits were stopped because she told them M had moved in. Do you know what kind of help, if any, F & M can get with housing and council tax? and where do they go to get that help?

JSB43

mummyroysof3 wrote: »

if you love someone enough to move in with them and they have children from a previous relationship, then surely you class as a family and it sounds to me as though this man just wants to provide for himself and his daughter, which sounds a little selfish to me, that attitude is not going to help anyone is it?

You have not seen them first hand, and how they live, its hard to make a sensible and objective comment.

Love towards someone and going through financial hell having to borrow from everyone just to survive, are two very different things.

fluffymovie

The local council administer HB and CTB so they should contact them today as these benefits are very time limited and the date that you apply is ultra important!

JSB43

fluffymovie wrote: »

My partner and I have been together for 9 years and recently married. I have helped to support his children by buying food and clothes when they are with us, sharing the cost of holidays etc as I love my partner and want us to be happy!

Thats fine if they can afford it. The problem is, they cant.

fluffymovie wrote: »

It is always hard to come to a relationship when the other party has children and you don't but that is a choice that he has made.

M made the choice out of love for F and vague advice from the benefits office, that advice turned out to totally baseless and Tax credits just said contact them after he has moved in.

pelirocco

JSB43 wrote: »

I am looking for the rules that says M is liable for Fs children. They are not step-children and M & F are not married.


There is no rule to say he should feed clothe or care for them .....but thats the choice he made when he moved in surely ? I am at a lost as to what you think should happen to the children

Robbie64

If they weren't living together when the dad died then WPA would not have been payable.

As for Tax Credits and Housing Benefit and Council Tax Benefit these are claimed via the tax credit helpline and for HB and CTB via the local council.

KimYeovil

JSB43 wrote: »

Thats fine if they can afford it. The problem is, they cant.

A net income of £2250 per month. Housing and council tax of £670.

That is £1580 per month. You have a very funny idea of what 'can afford' means.

JSB43

KimYeovil wrote: »

There is absolutely no reason why a single parent with three children or a couple with four children should be in any spiral of debt in this country other than culpable idiocy by a parent.

I dont agree their situation is down to culpable idiocy by a parent.

I am a professional person, software engineer, middle class income of £105,000 last year and pay over £3000 in tax plus maintenance to a former spouse. I have not dealt with civil servants dealing in benefits until now and that experience shows this is nothing to do with culpable idiocy of the clamant. I found it impossible to get a cohesive answer to the simple question - how much?

JSB43

KimYeovil wrote: »

A net income of £2250 per month.

My post says - M’s income of about £1000 a month as a lorry driver. That is a net income.

julie03

if they private rent get them to check their lha rate, https://lha-direct.voa.gov.uk/Secure/Default.aspx then go to http://www.turn2us.org.uk/benefits_search.aspx to check all her entitlements, this is a rough guide.

if the amounts she gets are not correct they need to push to get the right ones