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  • Torry_Quine
    Torry_Quine Posts: 18,887 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 10,000 Posts Photogenic Name Dropper
    I think she's going to have a hard job with this one. As others have said where is his address for his GP, electoral role etc. Having his car insurance there also doesn't look good either. Unless she can show he has another address as his home, which he doesn't, then I think they will find that that is his home and they are considered as living as husband and wife.
    Lost my soulmate so life is empty.

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    Diana Gabaldon, Outlander
  • epitome
    epitome Posts: 3,199 Forumite
    edited 18 November 2014 at 8:50PM
    So when and how did she add him to her claim?

    What benefit is it?

    Is she aware that by voluntarily adding him to her claim, she will lose her benefit and possibly have to payback months, years of payments as far back as the relationship started out.?

    Where is he registered to vote? bank statements, credit cards? his employers will have an address for him too,

    When did he start to put her address down as his correspondence address for all these things?
  • specialboy
    specialboy Posts: 1,436 Forumite
    He LIVES with your Mum and works away, caught.
  • FBaby
    FBaby Posts: 18,374 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 10,000 Posts Combo Breaker
    he did rent a room in a shared house but he didn't see the need for the room as he was only there a maximum of 2 days a week sometimes less.

    You say it all here. He didn't live in his lorry before, he had a place to go to and he stopped because that place is now your mum's. He is saving rent on that room, but doesn't think he should contribute towards the use of the place at your mum. You say he comes back with a bag, I bet full of clothes that needs washing, in your mum's washing machine.

    He is a user and that's all there is to it. If he didn't want to move with your mum, he should have kept his room and register everything to it, then your mum would have been fine.
  • tomtom256
    tomtom256 Posts: 2,250 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Name Dropper
    So presumably he is paying a council tax element on his business rates at the yard as he lives there?

    If he is problem solved.
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