Single Person Discount - unlikely right?

Dird

I'll be buying a house on Wednesday with all utilities going in my name. My mom may or may not be living with me. She doesn't bother with the electoral roll, doesn't drive and isn't on benefits.

Assuming I marked myself as a single occupant what else might the council be likely to check? I guess they wouldn't be able to find out from phone contract etc but they probably could from the doctors/dentists right?

agrinnall

I don't think you're going to get much help in breaking the law on here.

le_loup

So, you want the rest of us to pay for your local services?

Dird

le_loup wrote: »

So, you want the rest of us to pay for your local services?

I pay for many other people so why not :P share the love
working tax credits, child tax credits, the dole, people pretending to be sick...everyone tries to milk the cow

tomtontom

Thankfully your local authority will have access to data matching services to verify who is living there.

PasturesNew

They'd turn up and check the wardrobes/bedrooms.... it's easy to see if one person lives alone, or not. Easy.

gt94sss2

Dird wrote: »

My mom may or may not be living with me. She doesn't bother with the electoral roll, doesn't drive and isn't on benefits.

You might also want to tell your mother she is breaking the law - its a legal requirement to be on the electoral roll..

Regards
Sunil

Dird

gt94sss2 wrote: »

its a legal requirement to be on the electoral roll..

Nobody locked me up when I registered for the first time at 26 :P I guess I could leave it pointing at the wrong address for years & years with nothing happening

CLAPTON

Dird wrote: »

Nobody locked me up when I registered for the first time at 26 :P I guess I could leave it pointing at the wrong address for years & years with nothing happening

do you steal old peoples pursues too?

pavane

this is not tax saving, it is tax evasion. now you know, think carefully.