need a bit of advice please

nowtleft

please don't be judgemental.
my partner moved in at the beginning of june, now after a long spell of unemployment he as found himself a job at the other side of the country and i will only see him about 5 weeks of the year. i can't move with him due to my work and daughter been at collage, would i still be classed as cohabiting? i have informed tax credits that he is living with me.
a problem may be that he is going to be putting the majority of his wages into my bank account due to him having a ccj and not been able to open his own currant account (his words, not sure if this is right), also he would be using this address as his postal address due to him living in a caravan on a farm. im not sure of how to class myself single or not? when i enquired with HMRC last year about cohabiting v lodgers i was told that as long as he wasn't paying any of the bills he could claim seperatly, but i have played it safe and told them everything but im unsure of this problem.

viktory

Him using your address and putting his wages into your account is going to cause you problems if you want to claim benefits as a single person. Mostly because you are not single!

tweets

If i was you i would tell the truth to benefits or you will be sorry in the long run because they check what you tell them.

nowtleft

i have been truthful tweets, but he would not be paying the bills, these are paid with my money from a different account, his would be accessibly to us both but not for paying my household bills. anyway i cant get through to HMRC yet and they have not paid me anything since june when i told them about us so im totally fed up.

zzzLazyDaisy

He can open a basic account with the co-operative bank.

If you wish to claim as being single - as opposed to having a partner who works away - then you need to disassociate yourself from him - that includes him having a separate bank account, and a separate mailing address and address for the electoral roll. Anything less is really going to bite you on the bum.

karenx

He cannot use your adress as his anymore if you both want to claim as single people. When looking at situations like this and whether you should claim as a couple or single the DWP look at who pays the bills, where mail gets sent and bank accounts. So if he is going to still use the adress and bank account they will class you as being a couple. So he will need to get his own account and another adress to use