Girlfriend Unemployed

PersianCatLady

Your GF could rent a room in a HMO or shared house and claim Local Housing Allowance (LHA).

I am assuming that she is under 35 so she would only be entitled to the shared accommodation rate and not the rate for a one bedroomed property.

If she is as lazy as she sounds then perhjaps you need to ask yourself if you don't deserve to have a GF that wants to be in an equal partnership with you rather than just you giving and her taking all the time?

TELLIT01

I suspect that because she has just left Uni she is only willing to look at jobs which require her qualifications and possibly views other work as 'beneath her'. The reality would seem to be that either there aren't the jobs out there to match her qualifications, or she is coming across badly at interview, or she really doesn't want a job and prefers to leech of somebody else.

Comms69

claremont1993 wrote: »

No she wouldnt but she would go to the council be given temporary accomodation until a council flat came up. No we dont have children

hahahahahah


1: You really think so?!
2: no, she'd be on the street
3: this relationship sounds like it's over

midnight_express

It sounds like it is time to end the relationship. Young child free, non disabled people get very little in the way of benefits. If possible she'd be better off going home to her parents.

mangog

I kinda feel shes not trying as hard as what she should be as Im paying for everything.

This sounds like a relationship issue rather than a money one! Have you talked to her about it?

PersianCatLady

claremont1993 wrote: »

Its not like that in Scotland, councils have a legal obligation to house homeless in temporary accomodation until they find permanent accomodation.

They may have a legal obligation but it isn't as simple as you think.

Topcat1982

I've just walked past 7 homeless people on the way back from the shop (Edinburgh)

If you don't want her living there give her a chance to move in with parents/relative/friends and she can claim jobseekers allowance

elsien

One comment from the OP and everyone decides the girlfriend is a lazy mare who CBA?
There is no information about what jobs she's looking for, how many applications, how many interviews. Just one comment from a begrudging partner that he thinks she's not trying as hard as she could be.

Maybe she is trying her best and the OP just isn't fully committed. If they've been together two years and he's talking about slinging her out in the streets after less than two months unemployment, quite frankly that says more about him than it does about her.

sangie595

elsien wrote: »

One comment from the OP and everyone decides the girlfriend is a lazy mare who CBA?
There is no information about what jobs she's looking for, how many applications, how many interviews. Just one comment from a begrudging partner that he thinks she's not trying as hard as she could be.

Maybe she is trying her best and the OP just isn't fully committed. If they've been together two years and he's talking about slinging her out in the streets after less than two months unemployment, quite frankly that says more about him than it does about her.

Actually, assuming the OP is for real, I'm torn between wondering if this is his ploy to get a foot hold into social housing because he thinks it's a better bet, by throwing her out so she gets a flat (interesting that he's looked up the housing act, isn't it?); or congratulating the girlfriend on a near miss, with an immature and irresponsible partner who would never make it through the first week of family life.

Comms69

elsien wrote: »

One comment from the OP and everyone decides the girlfriend is a lazy mare who CBA?
There is no information about what jobs she's looking for, how many applications, how many interviews. Just one comment from a begrudging partner that he thinks she's not trying as hard as she could be.

Maybe she is trying her best and the OP just isn't fully committed. If they've been together two years and he's talking about slinging her out in the streets after less than two months unemployment, quite frankly that says more about him than it does about her.

None of that matters; no one here knows the girlfriend so an opinion of her is literally irrelevant.


The problem is the relationship and whether shes trying hard or not, it doesn't matter.