Worse off living with partner?

Jowo_2

You can model the impact of your partner's income on your benefits when he moves in on the Turn2us online benefit calculator. The means tested benefit system is set up on the principle that a couple should support and assist each other, so his salary will be taken into account.

You can identify the savings your two households will make if you each complete an MSE budget planner (available on the free tools section of this website) and then a new one for the joint household. This way you will get a more complete picture of the changes to your overall household income because it will highlight the savings in rent, energy, water, telecoms, food, council tax and so on. If you only focus on the loss of your JSA, CT and HB, you may miss the savings that come from running a single household.

There are posts on the Employment and Job Seeking forum of MSE from people affected by aspergers which contain a lot of helpful information relating to finding work. Do a search to uncover them.

Are you living in a studio flat? A 1 bedroom property is considered sufficient in size for a couple by social housing landlord rules. Have you considered a mutual exchange to see if you can find someone with a 2 bedroom property wanting to downsize? Otherwise, contact your council to find out how to apply for a larger property (but be prepared for a long wait or no success) and contact local housing associations to see if they will consider an application from you. It seems you were allocated a property under their statutory obligation to house the homeless and now that you are suitably accommodated (in a legal sense, which is different to how you feel), you are no longer a priority case. Nobody in social housing is 'entitled' to a house with a garden, it's coveted so tend to be rarer.

Remember that if you move into the private sector, you will lose the security of tenure that comes from social housing and probably won't get a contract more than 6 months in length, and the rent will be much higher.

Your partner should join MSE and post details of his debts on the Debt Free Wanabee forum to find out the best way of sorting them out. His debts are irrelevant to your benefit entitlement, this is his problem to sort out.

KimYeovil

Kasha2000UK wrote: »

Yes, we need a house or a flat big enough for the two of us - my current flat I got via emergency housing after I was homeless, it's not big enough for the two of us, and certainly no good for the future.

This has no relation to my question.
Please answer the question or don't reply.

What rubbish. A home for one is big enough as a home for a couple. If you want a different place then wait in the queue like everyone else.

And you will not be worse off living with a partner. One household costs less to run than two households. Of course, if your partner is being subbed by their parents then that complicates things. So? If you will be worse off it is because Mummy and Daddy are not paying for one of you - that is the same for everyone regardless of if they are in a couple.