Being blackmailed

dd101

If you get rental income from a flat and shop you rent out, how can you be entitled to housing benefit?

PippaGirl_2

I think the room is not so much a flat (residential dwelling) as part of the business rooms above the shop, as such I doubt they can be rented out officially. Gas cert. etc. declaration to tax man and benefits agencies aside.

sulkisu

londonbabe73 wrote: »

Give him back his stuff change your number and walk away it's a tv and a wii it's not a kidney !!! it's really not worth the stress.

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This.

Your children won't be 'deprived' FGS. I would just give them back. He may still report you, probably will, but you will have to deal with that anyway. Holding on to his carp just gives him one more thing to be angry about. Surely your children will benefit from you being less stressed and this lowlife out of your lives for good?

Dunroamin

PippaGirl wrote: »

I think the room is not so much a flat (residential dwelling) as part of the business rooms above the shop, as such I doubt they can be rented out officially. Gas cert. etc. declaration to tax man and benefits agencies aside.

Hardly the point, is it?

If she owns a shop (whatever the situation is with the property over it) it's going to affect her getting all the means tested benefits she does.

No wonder she's worried about being blackmailed!

skibadee

I too am confused because of the OP's other posts/threads, I know I certainly would not of let a man I'd only known a short time sell my belongings and certainly not my childrens wii!!

mattyprice4004

Somehow I don't think they're coming back. :rotfl:

trevormax

you say he has £200k in his bank account. Is he or his father on benefits like JSA, housing benefit, council tax benefit etc? If that is the case, tell him you will report him to DWP for benefit fraud. There is a capital threshold and if you have more capital than the threshold, your benefits are reduced or you are not entitled to benefits at all.

Also if he has been claiming benefits and says to DWP he was living with you, this too could cause him problems. He is required to inform them of any change in circumstances such as, oh I don't know, living with a partner at a different address. If he is on JSA, he signs a little slip each time he goes there as a declaration that there have been no changes in his circumstances. Failing to inform them could be seen as fraud in DWP's eyes.

Then of course you can threaten him back by saying you will report him for working while on benefits. In my opinion, giving in to this a.hole will only cause more problems later. I don't think you will be lowering your self to his level by saying to him (verbally) that you can hurt him (and his dad) just as much by reporting him (them) to DWP.

EDIT: didn't see there was 2 more pages to this thread and it seems like the OP might be in the brown stuff as much as the ex if what people are saying is true in this thread about the shop and stuff.

gingergee

If OP has nothing to hide, i'd ring the DWP or whoever and say they were being blackmailed and explain everything. If its all ok, if her ex does report her, there will be a record of it already. If i was to read more into it, and the OP was telling a porky pie (not saying she is), then i'd advise her to give the stuff back and buy new, as she could probably afford it! But that is if she was upto no good, which im not accusing her of at all!!
Also, i'd be staying well away from relationships for a while. I barely recovered from 9yr of a DV relationship, i'd become a nun if i kept on having them!!!
Whatever the outcome, i hope OP and more so, her children resolve this asap and move on. All the best! g x