Planning on moving boyfriend in with me

rockerchick

So i live on my own with my daughter i work p/t 2 days a week so i get my wage, child benefit, child tax credit, and working tax credit, and child maintenance, and i get PART housing benefit and PART council tax benefit.
So my boyfriend is looking at getting transferred up here with work so he can move in with me. My boyfriend works full time and he can earn between £700 and £900 a month depending on how much he acts as manager which is only sometimes. So say £700 a month to be on the safe side.
The rent for the house is £525 a month and the council tax is £1050 a year split over 10 months would equal to around £100 a month.
so when he moves presume to lose my housing and council tax benefit but im just guessing. But his wage will help with that
Do you think we can afford this, i mean i know it will probably be tight but i can cut back on some luxuries. But how much of my other monies will i lose too?

LL30

The move will impact your tax credits too as you will have to open a joint claim. Have you tried the entitledto calculator, that would help with the sums x

Marisco

rockerchick wrote: »

and the council tax is £1050 a year split over 10 months would equal to around £100 a month.

If you pay it over 12 months, then it will be £87.50p. Not much I know, but to quote Mr T "every little helps"

MrsManda

As LL30 said, you can model your circumstances on the benefits calculators at turn2us/entitledto and also direct.gov to see what would change in terms of your benefits.
http://www.turn2us.org.uk/benefits_search.aspx

https://www.dwpe-services.direct.gov.uk/portal/page/portal/ba/lp?_piref278_36249_278_36248_36248.__ora_navig=action%3Dentitlement%26pageno%3D16

Your benefits are likely to go down but living as a couple is much cheaper than living in two separate places and you won't have the transport costs of going seeing each other