Do I "live" with my partner?

xgingerx

Thanks Jo, Im glad I fell accross your original thread and you got sorted in the end.

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katet60

This I believe would most definitely be treated as living together. He stays overnight 5/6 times of the week. You are a couple whether you share finances or not. Why does he not just move in permanently?

Be very careful because this can sometimes be misconstrued as deceiving the benefit system (which is wrong for penalising couples, a different story..) and you could be liable to prosecution - as you have not declared this, until at least now, if you do.

For your information living together as husband and wife or civil partnership is still treated as couple married or not.

Also note if he works you could also lose all entitlement to all benefits depending on his income.

On a point mentioned above there is also a rule for e.g. a soldier posted abroad, DWP have rules that this can be treated as a couple as they are merely separated by distance only.

shellsuit

katet60 wrote: »

This I believe would most definitely be treated as living together. He stays overnight 5/6 times of the week. You are a couple whether you share finances or not. Why does he not just move in permanently?

Be very careful because this can sometimes be misconstrued as deceiving the benefit system (which is wrong for penalising couples, a different story..) and you could be liable to prosecution - as you have not declared this, until at least now, if you do.

For your information living together as husband and wife or civil partnership is still treated as couple married or not.

Also note if he works you could also lose all entitlement to all benefits depending on his income.

On a point mentioned above there is also a rule for e.g. a soldier posted abroad, DWP have rules that this can be treated as a couple as they are merely separated by distance only.

Kate, if you read post #100, the OP has updated the thread (it was an old one) to say they have split up.