Benefits and spousal maintenance

holliea

Housing_Benefit_Officer wrote: »

The £666 per month will be your income that you declare to the DWP and Local Authority. You will still be able to claim help towards your rent and council tax but it may be reduced due to the £666 per month income.

I know I'm asking how long a peice of string is, and I know jsa will be cut, but do you know how much housing I might be able to still get? I'm on £65 a week at the moment. the payments will start in Jan 2014

paddedjohn

holliea wrote: »

I know I'm asking how long a peice of string is, and I know jsa will be cut, but do you know how much housing I might be able to still get? I'm on £65 a week at the moment. the payments will start in Jan 2014

Why worry about something that may never happen, you might have a job by then.;)

holliea

paddedjohn wrote: »

Why worry about something that may never happen, you might have a job by then.;)

Not really helpful as I need to plan for the worst. And if the worst happens and I don't I could be homeless

princessdon

holliea wrote: »

I know I'm asking how long a peice of string is, and I know jsa will be cut, but do you know how much housing I might be able to still get? I'm on £65 a week at the moment. the payments will start in Jan 2014

I estimate approximate £7 pw loss of Hb.

Dunroamin

holliea wrote: »

lol then you're getting a good idea of why the relationship broke up. the house is in negative equity so but that's in his name so I missed out on that but he can afford a percentage of his earnings to pay back a bit of what i brought to the relationship. in hindsight it was a bad idea, but who things a relationship will break down when you're in love lol

If the house is in negative equity, shouldn't you be splitting the loss between you, just as you'd split any positive equity?

margaretclare

Mojisola wrote: »

Not if you've got a consent order - what's been agreed will have to stand.

I wouldn't have gone down the route of an ex paying me my own money back! I'd have wanted my own money back from his account.

By the way - why did you end up paying your money into his account? We've always had a joint account but, if we hadn't, we would each have an account in our own names. I wouldn't want my OH to have complete control over my money and I wouldn't want control over all his money.

Well said, Mojisola. This sounds positively Victorian - didn't think anyone lived like that nowadays! We have a joint account just for household bills and we each have our own personal accounts. DH was quite resistant to the idea of a joint accounts - he'd had bad experiences with these in former relationships. You can see why, from the OP's tale.

jacques_chirac

princessdon wrote: »

I estimate approximate £7 pw loss of Hb.

Can I ask how you have reached that figure? I get closer to £40*!

* Income over personal allowance * 0.45

princessdon

jacques_chirac wrote: »

Can I ask how you have reached that figure? I get closer to £40*!

* Income over personal allowance * 0.45

I've worked it out as £18 over personal allowance £71 add £65.

Income £153-71-65 left approx £18.

mumps

Sometimes people don't want their money paid into their own account as they have debt problems and the bank would take it all or at least that it what worries them, I also knew someone who had her salary paid to her husband as she was an alcoholic and she worried that she would drink if she had access to cash. She was trying really hard to stay off alcohol and her husband was very supportive, it wasn't a case of him being controlling. Just wanted to point out that sometimes there are good reasons for these situations.

OP I am not saying you have these problems.

holliea

in my case we had a lot of expenses so at the time it made sense that we were both working to pay debts. it so happened we didn't stop the arrangement after they were paid and everything still got paid into his account

the house was only in his name, he's happy to take on the mortgage and work out repayments. of course ihe could be lying about negative equity but i'm free of him so i don't care. if there was any positive equity it would be minimum

whats the income over personal allowance? is there a calculator i can use for this?