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DanE2010

Loopy_Girl wrote: »

So I ask again....from your wedding day until you move in with your wife in Feb, will you consider yourself single for tax credit purposes?

And for the record I don't see you as a tax fraud....I just think you have been incredibly blinkered to think you could live the way you have been and not expect the TCO to ask questions.

EDIT - have just read that you phoned the TCO and they said that you could continue with your single claim even after marriage as you weren't living together? Really? I bet there are a rake of Forces wives out there who would be happy to hear that news!!
Seriously, who gets married and then doesn't stay with their partner immediately? How very bizarre.....

Go read up the guidence on crown servants and tax credits, its a totally different set of circumstances and he is correct in what he is saying that if he rang the helpline and told them that they arent living together yet but are going to be moving in together they would of absolutely told him to call back when they move in together and then claim as a couple. Its being investigated for a combination of things from what I can see from reading his posts.

Loopy_Girl

DanE2010 wrote: »

Go read up the guidence on crown servants and tax credits, its a totally different set of circumstances and he is correct in what he is saying that if he rang the helpline and told them that they arent living together yet but are going to be moving in together they would of absolutely told him to call back when they move in together and then claim as a couple. Its being investigated for a combination of things from what I can see from reading his posts.

I agree with your last sentence and I don't dispute what they told him...but I think this is before they realised just how linked their lives were

DanE2010

Loopy_Girl wrote: »

I agree with your last sentence and I don't dispute what they told him...but I think this is before they realised just how linked their lives were

Well its upto TCO to look at all the evidence now, I dont think it can be decided from a few posts on here.

Loopy_Girl

DanE2010 wrote: »

Well its upto TCO to look at all the evidence now, I dont think it can be decided from a few posts on here.

Agreed.

And my advice again would be to approach your MP and get him to beg for an extension

Loopy_Girl

ajr3773 wrote: »

but in my opinion i am not financially linked with her

But it's not your opinion that counts is it?

Anyway, since you are getting antsy with me, I will again reiterate my advice about your MP.

Good luck

Loopy_Girl

ajr3773 wrote: »

I accept i made mistakes but this was through not knowing the ins and outs of the system. As far as i was concerned, when it came to tax credits, you gave them your earnings from the previous year and you updated them throughout the year of you circumstances.

So they never asked you re pension conts or benefits in kind? Or your application never had it? You must be the only person.

I would doubt that very much but as you have learned, by not reading the forms correctly and just accepting the money you have borne the brunt of it.

Again, good luck with it all

lucaselle

there is no need to judge you, am sure your an honest person, all the best to you and your family!!

FBaby

ajr3773 wrote: »

Is it so wrong to move on with my life, enter into a new relationship, settle down again, be happy and plan for the future, give my kids a stepmother that actually wants to be their mother albeit that we live in separate households and are both financially independant at present. No wonder this country is in the state it is in. As far as im concerned i may be in a relationship with somebody but in my opinion i am not financially linked with her until we live together in the same household and share one set of bills for that same household which i admit is just around the corner before people start jumping on the band wagon again.

It is very difficult to judge because no one but you know whether this delay to move in together is due to emotional reasons or purely financial ones. If she was a very high earner and had said she was happy to support you financially and you would all be much better off financially, would you be delaying the move in the same way? People are quick to judge because there are many couples who chose not to move in together purely because they are better off living in separate households whilst receiving benefits and make due of seeing each other 3 or 4 times a week.

no-oneknowsme

ajr3773 wrote: »

It is more for emotional reasons with regards to the kids to be honest with you. Their mother has walked out on the 4 of them twice in four years so this has to be right for all parties not just me and my fiance.

If you partner is playing the caring role for your disabled child then obviously the children feel comfortable enough with your partner being in their lives ?

FBaby

ajr3773 wrote: »

It is more for emotional reasons with regards to the kids to be honest with you. Their mother has walked out on the 4 of them twice in four years so this has to be right for all parties not just me and my fiance.

Don't you think that planning to marry your girlfriend before you are all living together even more likely to destabilise them? If anything, this is only convincing me that the decision is for financial gain.