What help is there for Teen parents?

dmg24

DX2 wrote: »

;)Pointless argument some posters would argue black is white.

I'm feeling slightly embarrassed for living in Nottingham right now!

nottslass_2

http://www.dwp.gov.uk/docs/dmgch11.pdf

Oldernotwiser

nottslass wrote: »

Actually you've miss quoted the OP.

The OP was asking about benefit entitlement and was not asking for opinions /suggestions on whether or not they should live together and the couple concerned have obviously already made that decision.

Hardly a mis quote when I've cut and pasted it! Everybody else seems to be able to read this; why can't you?

Oldernotwiser

nottslass wrote: »

That is totally inaccurate,and it is quite possible that "the decision maker" could quite easily decide that they are a couple for benefit purposes.

There have been more threads on this very subject that any other.

That might be the case if they were 5 years older and the young man was working. As it is, he's a college student and won't be eligible for any benefits except for EMA. This a schoolboy who's got his girlfriend pregnant, not someone older who's trying to fiddle the benefit system!

alwaysonthego_2

It is very unlikely that two 16 year old are going to be treated as LTAHAW whilst living in seperate households. In the eyes of the law they are still children and would need permission from their parents to move out of home. Whilst in an ideal life mummy and daddy would live together under one roof, it maybe not in the best interest of the young people and their baby.

sarahg1969

I was in exactly this position when I was 18. I stayed at home with my parents, worked full-time in an office, while my son went to nursery, and did my college stuff in the evenings. Hard work! But it can be done. Can't help with the benefits situation though, as I never claimed them (apart from CB), and things have changed a lot since then anyway.

So long as they have supportive families, they'll be OK.

nottslass_2

Oldernotwiser wrote: »

You can be a family without living together, particularly as the OP says, " at the moment they don't feel ready to live together." At this point in their lives it's more important that they prepare themselves to be financially self supporting in the future than that they play mummies and daddies in the short term.

Oldernotwiser wrote: »

Hardly a mis quote when I've cut and pasted it! Everybody else seems to be able to read this; why can't you?

But you didn't actually copy and paste the entire thread and left out the bit where the OP quite clearly enquires about benefits if they live together at her house,and her subsequent post in which she refers to be "willing to let them try" living together,

The following statement suggests to me that living together is what the couple were considering.

"Secondly if they decided to both live with me (which could be a possibility) what help could they and I get."

alwaysonthego_2

Board Guide comment

Can we get back on topic please, this arguing about who said what is not helping the OP.

The OP is happy with the responses.

Oldernotwiser

nottslass wrote: »

The following statement suggests to me that living together is what the couple were considering.

"Secondly if they decided to both live with me (which could be a possibility) what help could they and I get."

My final comment on this.

When people use words like "if" and "could be", it doesn't signify that a decision has been made.

flashnazia

nottslass wrote: »

"Secondly if they decided to both live with me (which could be a possibility) what help could they and I get."

My twopence worth:
What the op is asking in that statement is whether or not it would be beneficial or not (benefits wise) if they lived together. The decision will probably be based on that but you've assumed that the decision was already made.