Someone living with me - Can they stop my money?

CANDYTROOPER1922

Query from a friend:

I have been living with my partner for about 1 year and 8 months. I get income support, child benefit, child tax credits, council tax and housing benefit and support from my children's father - who is not my partner any longer.

My partner does not work and does not get any benefits and therefore i have been claiming as a single parent.

Someone has now reported him for living here. My benefits have been frozen.

How will this affect me?

merlin68

If you had declared him, you would have got more money.

CANDYTROOPER1922

Can i get in trouble for not declaring him?

adamantine

yes you can get into trouble. you will have been getting single person discount for council tax which you are not entitled to with 2 adults living in the house.

you may not have gotten more money but had you declared him living there as he isnt working but you havent done yourself any favours for the future certainly.

midnight_express

Any claim you made should have been in joint names. If there has been an overpayment you will have to repay it and you could get done for fraud.

Muttleythefrog

I think I would seek legal advice. It might be a case of damage limitation by showing you haven't benefitted from your fraud (if that is the overall case.. and it's hard to tell). I hate to say it, but in light of your first ever post on the site it is quite ironic... you were worried about being the victim of fraud. You've put yourself in a very difficult situation (through choice or ignorance.. the latter for which you'll have a monumental challenge to make claim of).. hopefully you can resolve it quickly so that you can get money coming in again.

Lady_gaga

if he doesn't work and he doesn't claim any benfits how does he manage to support himself, is he a multi millionaire?!?

Transformer

All your documents you will have got confirming what you are entitled to will clearly have laid out what you need to tell them, as in any changes of circumstances etc.....If you choose to ignore this you then risk your entire claim from when a change has occured and you have no informed them to become VOID. They would be entitled to reclaim any monies paid to you on that basis leaving you to try and get any overpayment reduced based of what you would have been entitled to, but you see you are not entitled to the back claim and in deed in any court sentencing they can if wish take into account how much you have actually got on top of would have, but it will not change the result, benefit fraud and you will still have to repay what the dwp see as the overpayment wether you feel it could be mitigated or not.

just because you did not tell them a peice of info, but a vital one. You have left yourself open to a very stressful time and if I were you I would declare what has been going on now before someone does it for you !!!!!! If that happens you will get no leeway to show you are sorry for what you have done, as everyone is sorry when found out of course.

Ring them up and put in a change of circumstances and record the call for record, tell them the truth. I am suprised to be honest that someone could justify claiming as single just because partner does not claim as a viable reason, very silly.

NASA_2

Was sure I had posted in this thread already saying that for the last 1 year and 8 months the OP has been defrauding the system and will have to pay back the overpayment. Seems to have disappeared though.

poppasmurf_bewdley

samhor wrote: »

Query from a friend:

I have been living with my partner for about 1 year and 8 months. I get income support, child benefit, child tax credits, council tax and housing benefit and support from my children's father - who is not my partner any longer.

My partner does not work and does not get any benefits and therefore i have been claiming as a single parent.

Someone has now reported him for living here. My benefits have been frozen.

How will this affect me?

You have commited fraud as you have claimed to be a single parent when, as you have admitted, you were not.

Why did you not tell them you had a partner? The real reason is because you thought it would harm your claim. To say he was not getting any benefits 'and therefore I have been claiming as a single parent' is a blantant lie. Why would him not claiming benefit make you a single parent?

cosmic-dust

NASA wrote: »

Was sure I had posted in this thread already saying that for the last 1 year and 8 months the OP has been defrauding the system and will have to pay back the overpayment. Seems to have disappeared though.

Your kidding, disappearing posts on MSE.
Defrauding, they don't like that word, next time try mistake.:p