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WantToBeSE

This is a wind up, surely??

LKRDN_Morgan

kinkyechelon wrote: »

Myself and my partner are thinking of getting married. Only problem is we will not be sharing a home. For personal reasons i can't live with him.
I claim Income Support, child tax credits, Carers allowance My son is Disabled.
Can i be married but live at different address and what does that mean to our Benefits.
I don't want to say yes if it means we will both be worse off.

Ah how romantic. I think I want to getting married and spend the rest of my life with you but hold up! Only if I can continue claiming single parent benefits

densol_2

kinkyechelon wrote: »

Myself and my partner are thinking of getting married. Only problem is we will not be sharing a home. For personal reasons i can't live with him.
I claim Income Support, child tax credits, Carers allowance My son is Disabled.
Can i be married but live at different address and what does that mean to our Benefits.
I don't want to say yes if it means we will both be worse off.

Trolls cant legally marry anyway !

FBaby

So you really think it is ok to claim benefits as a single person when you clearly are not? I would say you are lucky not to have been reported yet.

thriftylass

kinkyechelon wrote: »

So the question i asked was would i still be classed as married person with a person who lives away would my benefits change.

Yes, you would be classed as married. There are many married couples where one partner works away, lives somewhere else due to work but they are still married and the working partner is then meant to support his/her spouse and not the state anymore/or at least less.

Alice_Walker

kinkyechelon wrote: »

Densol i am not a troll.
I am asking as we love each other but he live 40 miles away and has work there so if he moved here he would be outta work. so he want to stay there. I can't move myself and child as we are settled here and due to medical conditions i can't have him living here. So the question i asked was would i still be classed as married person with a person who lives away would my benefits change.

Could he not find a new job closer to you?

I don't understand what medical conditions would stop him living with someone. Does he not stay over at all now?

CIS

For council tax purposes it is possible to retain separate 'sole or main residences' but the local authority are likely to want to take a closer look to ensure it is correct.

Craig

Guest101

FBaby wrote: »

So you really think it is ok to claim benefits as a single person when you clearly are not? I would say you are lucky not to have been reported yet.

It seems at the minute they live distinctly separate lives

missapril75

WantToBeSE wrote: »

This is a wind up, surely??

Well the question has been posed before.

It's not that unusual a situation.
For Income Support and similar there is a definition of what constitutes a couple and it includes sharing a household.

There is also a definition of a household and there is a definition of where a household is normally shared which includes the situation where a couple will be together again.

Note the bolded part, because to be a couple one has to share a household with the other half or be temporarily apart having shared a household.

Two people in a relationship, whether married or not, will be separate claimants if they have never lived together.

It's different to a couple where one lives 'away' for work if they previously lived together.

Different rules for different benefits and different benefits have different definitions.

DWP rules are not as straightforward as people think.

kazzah

so the question i asked was would i still be classed as married person with a person who lives away would my benefits change.

yes...........because you WOULD be a married person...................:)