Having sex with someone whose on benefit

thequant

ab.da54 wrote: »

It's when you started living together as husband and wife that counts. If you are now entering a relationship and living together as a couple, now is the time for your partner to come off benefits. Occassional sexual relations does not amount to benefit fraud - unless, of course, you were in a relationship.

We want to stop claiming benefits! we want to inform the benefits office! however we are worried that we will be accused of being in a relationship previously.

Rikki

thequant wrote: »

We want to stop claiming benefits! we want to inform the benefits office! however we are worried that we will be accused of being in a relationship previously.

I haven't any advice and hope you get it sorted out.

I know there is some humour in this thread but many are not admiring you for wanting to inform the benefit agency in a change in circumstances, most are trying to get round the system and claim as much as they can. :T

raven83

i've got no advice or anything construstive to say other than thanks for an entertaining thread can't stop chuckling to myself.......

ab.da54

thequant wrote: »

We want to stop claiming benefits! we want to inform the benefits office! however we are worried that we will be accused of being in a relationship previously.

Your new partner simply signs off the benefits he is no longer entitled to. He doesn't have to go into details about your relationship so I'm not sure why you are worried?

FOX_HOUND

thequant wrote: »

I have a lodger who is on benefit and occasionally we have had sex, however over time we have gradually fallen for each other and now want to declare our relationship. As a higher rate tax payer I know that he will not be entitled to benefit anymore.

What we want to know,is that when we declare our relationship will we be accused of being in a relationship previously (we have been living together for a year) and hence have been committing benefit ? How do we prove we wern't previously in a relationship ?

You cannot prove that you weren't and they cannot prove that you were. I very much doubt that any such question would be asked.

By the way, that's the best introduction to a thread I've read for ages.

candygirl

Errata wrote: »

In a previous post back in January you referred to you and the other person as 'we' not 'me and my lodger' which could be taken as indicating you were a couple then.
The fact remains that if everyone claimed successfully for the nights they didn't have sex but not for the ones they did, the country would be bankrupt.

Except for the Jeremy Kyle brigade, who are at it like rabbits 24/7;):D

McKneff

djdido2 wrote: »

:rotfl::rotfl:

I am nearly 37 weeks pregnant. This made me laugh so hard I think I may have triggered labour :rotfl::T

Start to worry when your laughing so much the tears start running down your legs.:eek::rotfl::rotfl:

raven83

wahey mine is the 69th post!!! haha seems appropriate for this thread


edit: damn just missed out!!!

Beetlemama

I don't think it's quite as difficult as you're worrying it will be, you declare you are no longer "lodger and landlord" from the date you consider your relationship to have officially started. Usually when we look at it, we are looking for the date you started sharing the same bed at night and and started thinking of it as "Our bed", and your partner stopped considering the other bed "My bed".

In the case of two singles who now wish to claim as a couple, the date of the first um "bedding" is not the date of the relationship start, you are not a couple in the eyes of the law just because you have had sexual intercourse. Declare to them the date from which you now wish to be considered a couple and they will use that date, try to use the date as close to the date you guys considered yourselves a couple so you know you've told the truth.

rubytuesday

sueturnersmith wrote: »

This thread is hilarious! It's cheered me up no end

:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl: you beat me to it!

Nearly didn't click on so glad I did!:rotfl: