tax credits advice-single or joint?

confused2k

DX2 wrote: »

I think you will be hard pushed to convince tax credits that you aren't in a relationship with your ex.

You have children together, you are pulling your money together to help each other out. Just because you aren't sharing a bed with him is pretty irrelevant. To the outside world you would just be like any other normal family.

I'm not trying to convince them, almost the opposite. I wanted them to say yes we will class you as a couple and then I could make a joint claim. The thing you've said which clarified things for me is that to the outside world, we would just be like any other normal family and that's why I've stopped my single claim and will be claiming joint hopefully.