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Thats the other side of the coin. For the Immigration side, what i said applies.Wanderer wrote:Is it not more serious than that?
Seems to me the couple are committing benefit fraud if they have income that hasn't been declared to the council WRT HB/CTB.
I know from my time when I was financially on my arse you need to earn practically nothing to get CTB so I'd imagine the OP's partners doesn't work at all and is therefore getting maximum CBT.
I dunno what the OP can do to get out this hole, maybe do what he suggests and hope and pray no one finds out.
I don't want to help anymore, I'm flabbergasted!
It is Christmas and I will be kind - but doing what you are doing is so wrong and this is just what gets many folks annoyed. You are married so why are you not completing the the forms and declaring yourselves correctly. Why do you think your wife is entitled to claim when you are earning? Do you think by posting here it absovles you of the fraud?she didn't include my name and my monthly income on the application so basically the council is not aware that we live together and share the same house, i don't want them to think that i'll claim any benefits from public funds. i am in a full time employment and i earn around £1200 per month.
John, if she's getting maximum CTB then single occupancy is not an issue, she won't be paying any CT at all at least based on my experience of being very poor, even then I didn't get 100%!John wrote:I share the concerns expressed above, but given that it is Christmas, I shall put on a better interpretation, one that at least might have led to confusion.
Under the terms of Rule 6A of the Immigration Rules the "settled" spouse is allowed to claim things like Council Tax Benefit and Housing Benefit, but is not allowed to claim more such benefit because their visa-holding spouse is living with them. Accordingly the fact that the visa-holding spouse is living there should not be taken into account when calculating the amount of the benefits.
However this rule does not absolve the claimant from declaring the income of their spouse living with them, and as here in this case, such declaration would undoubtedly cause less benefit to be paid.
So IKP, is this the confusion in the mind of yourself and your wife? And by the way, do please confirm that your wife is not still claiming the 25% Council Tax single occupant discount.
A couple of points, firstly, we don't know .... we have not been told ..... whether she is getting 100% CTB. Secondly, she should still have notified that her husband was living there, because it affects the amount of CTB payable, and therefore might be an issue in determining whether she would actually get 100%, or a lower percentage.John, if she's getting maximum CTB then single occupancy is not an issue
Fair comment, as long as it is clear what the rules are actually saying. I just have a horrible suspicion that what we have here is "just" a misinterpretation of what the rules are actually saying.Why people don’t respect the law and play by the rules?
I agree also feel sorry for the people who suffer because of this misinterpretation but some times the rules are absolutely clear one of them is to declare your marital status and your income in a benefits applicationJohn wrote: Fair comment, as long as it is clear what the rules are actually saying. I just have a horrible suspicion that what we have here is "just" a misinterpretation of what the rules are actually saying.
ikp wrote:thanks for your help
I do respect the law, No you don't or you wouldn't be trying to circumvent by stopping payments or failing to report your income for council tax purposes. and i know what the laws are If you did, then we did you abuse it. , i used this website because i needed your advise from the immigration side but i didn't ask you to tell me what should i do in my personal or financial life. Tough, sometimes you can't have one without the other. Next time, don't post
you have no right to put comments on someone's life.
then don't ask us questions about your life, the immigration side of it isn't in a vacuum so it helps to not be silly and pretend otherwise