Working Tax Credit & living with a partner i pay board money to

BillJones

FBaby wrote: »

That's very well for you but the OP has made it clear it is nor the case for her as he earns very good money and she doesn't. Wouldn't you want to pay more in if your partner earnt half your income with more needed outgoings?

Possibly, but I've never sugested otherwsie. I think that you are trying to read things into my post that aren't there.

FBaby

BillJones wrote: »

Possibly, but I've never sugested otherwsie. I think that you are trying to read things into my post that aren't there.

I think it started with your picking up my post having misinterpreted what I'd written. I was referring directly to the OP specific situation but you made it a general issue about couples supporting each other. I think all in all we have similar views on the matter.

silvercar

However, if her last partner pays very little towards his biological child, and her current partner pays zero towards his step child and she is seeking benefits presumably because of low income, then where does that leave her? No support from ex, no support from current partner - rock and hard place....

Have a child with new bloke. Then leave him. He seems to be a high earner, so should result in decent maintenance payments.

PS Don't try this at home.

dodger1

smange wrote: »

my boyfriend will not help us out financially whatsoever. What are the rules around this kind of situation, I am basically a lodger.

Rule number one, find a new boyfriend.

Poppie68

marybelle01 wrote: »

"Food orientated" not "food group" (although I wasn't aware "chocolate egg" was a food group either - despite my friend assuring me it is!). I agree with BigAunty - it's the same hallmarks just a bit more sophisticated. I am a fluent speaker of French - so the "mange" jumped out at me - from the French "manger", to eat. But not attributing that much intelligence to our troll, and having had a misspent youth - "blancmange" is a hopelessly fattening, tooth rotting dessert and "strawberry" is one of the most popular flavours it comes in. Smange.


I also like crosswords, but prefer more challenging clues ...

Ah chocolate egg comes under the same catagory as Prawn Mayo and Seaweed Sandwich.....it's in the 'SeeFood' and eat it catagory....
And strawberry blancmange in our house will forever ever be now known as Smange!

StormyWeather_2

blondebubbles wrote: »

I didn't understand that either. Closest definition I got was "the hot chick always wasted at the party'

Did you get that from the urban dictionary. I'm not looking, I'm out of brain bleach.

smange sounds rude to me.:embarasse:embarasse

ArtoDeeto

smange wrote: »

Can I claim working family tax credit as a single person for myself and my daughter, I am currently living with someone but I have to look after myself and my daughter financially, I pay my boyfriend board money which covers my rent and food for myself and my daughter therefore we do not share finances at all, I buy all my own and my daughters clothes etc, my boyfriend will not help us out financially whatsoever. What are the rules around this kind of situation, I am basically a lodger.

You are putting yourself in the murkiest of the murkiest waters.
I have seen the handbook on "living Together as husband and wife" (to be unpolitical) IT RUNS TO 50 PAGES ; whatever they call it it's nothing to do with sex it's all to do with sharing and "what you are technically sharing".
~Your post does really look like splitting the hairs of the hairs so I would be careful if I was you...

somethingcorporate

Your new LL with benefits, sorry, partner, sounds like quite the catch.

zagfles

marybelle01 wrote: »

I am maybe becoming unnecessarily suspicious of newbies on this board over the last few days, and being totally unfair.... but this thread bears some striking resemblances to certain other newbie threads over the last few days. An apparently innocent question about how to break benefit rules, and a user id that is "food orientated".... I hope I am wrong but a lot of good people have wasted many hours on a troll in the last few days.

It only wastes the time of the endless moralisers on here. It's a simple question with a simple answer which was given several times on the first page.