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Renting from the Council
pretty17
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My husband works with a guy who is married. The guy earns £25,000 a year. He and his wife live with his wifes mother in a Council House he says that they live there RENT FREE. How can this be? His wife claims carers allowence for looking after her mother. She has just started a job working from home and her husband says she will make £800 per week. This can't be right how can they live rent free? Surely the council would have to take the husbands and wifes income into account even it is the mothers house. Can any one help with this?
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Sound as if the mother is having her rent paid and the wife and husband are living there on the quiet2014 Target;
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You could either report them, or quietly think that hes still paying to much to live with his MIL.0
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We are trying to work it out. If you live in a house you have to fill in the Electoral register form that they send each year, so from that the Council should see who is living in the house. Trying to gather more evidence as don't want to drop anyone in it if it is above board, altough it doesn't sound as if it is.0
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The way some people do this is by having a postal address elsewhere - for example at his parents house. Assuming the postal address i not claiming any benefits its quite possible to claim (on paper) that they live there.0
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maybee the mum pays the rent, but doesnt charge them for living their.0
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From what i understand she is on disability benefit, they guy implys that no rent is paid by anyone.0
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Running_Horse wrote: »Or you could mind your own business.
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