Living together - does he become liable for her children?

mummyroysof3

JSB43 wrote: »

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.

i understand that having money problems is not a nice position to be in but it seems to me their bigest problem is his 'us and them' attitude, if they are a family unit then it shouldnt matter whose children are whos or who brings in the money. thousands of familys must be in the same situation where one parent stays home and one works alot of hours but you do it becase it is whats best for your family.

in regards to the benefits £1000 has been mentioned? child benefit for 4 children and tax credits should be almost that again shouldn't it?

JSB43

Robbie64 wrote: »

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.

I think the town hall should now be on our calling list. Thank you.

On the case, but I understand F has previously claimed this after her ex died and before M moved in.

MrsBartolozzi

JSB43 wrote: »

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

I think Kim Yeovil was meaning a net income of his wages plus the tax credits/ housing benefit etc would be an income of around £2250 a month.

KimYeovil

JSB43 wrote: »

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

Yes. And with that a family of six is entitled to benefits of £15000-odd. £1000 + £1250 = £2250

Figure might be a bit off due to pensions contributions so knock two or three hundred off for them but that is the order of entitlement.

JSB43

mummyroysof3 wrote: »

thousands of familys must be in the same situation where one parent stays home and one works alot of hours but you do it becase it is whats best for your family.

I think this digresses my original enquiry.

F has turned to me for help, and handing out wads of cash isnt going to solve the problem.

I am trying to establish whether M has a statutory liability for the three children by virue of living in the same household.

JSB43

KimYeovil wrote: »

Yes. And with that a family of six is entitled to benefits of £15000-odd. £1000 + £1250 = £2250

I have no experience of claiming benefits, can give me some detail how you have arrived at those numbers? If you can, point me to the rules that calculates them.

MrsBartolozzi

https://www.turn2us.entitledto.co.uk/entitlementcalculator.aspx?AspxAutoDetectCookieSupport=1

If you put F's details into this form you'll get a pretty accurate amount of benefits they are entitled to. It's completely anonymous. You can then fiddle around with figures say put M's income as £1500 a month etc and see how the benefits change.

JSB43

Hi, I just got the link from julie03's post and on the case now.

mummyroysof3

JSB43 wrote: »

I think this digresses my original enquiry.

F has turned to me for help, and handing out wads of cash isnt going to solve the problem.

I am trying to establish whether M has a statutory liability for the three children by virue of living in the same household.

so do you mean he wants to know if he can still live with her but only pay for his own upkeep and 1/2 his daughters and leave his girlfriend to pay for the rest?

JSB43

Well done julie03 and MrsBartolozzi £230.05 should be the figure they get in tax credits. It does solve their financial problems provided its accurate and the rules remain unchanged.

This is tax credits from M's income and I entered DOB's of all four children even though three are not his. I am getting the impression Tax Credits is a social benefit for working parents. It also seems to set a de-facto liability on him by way of tax credits based on his income to raise the three non biological children. Does anyone else agree with this?