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289 replies

clairec1 · 29/11/2011 15:16

hi there, im a mum of 4 and one on the way, the father to my unborn child is also the father of my youngest, and a few weeks back we sat down and talked and we agreed on giving a relationship ago but im worried if this will affected my benefits i get, income support, child benefit and child tax credit but he doesnt live with me he lives at his parents house where he pays his bills etc............ Thanks for any advice

OP posts:
ChristmasBreak · 29/11/2011 16:46

The definition op asked about was the one in the guidelines. I'd imagine op doesn't really care whether you or I think she is categorically single or not as we don't set the rules.

candytuft63 · 29/11/2011 16:47

OP-

Thinly veiled request on how to beat/get around the system ?

fickencharmer · 29/11/2011 16:47

The millionaires don GET CAUGHT. The benefit claimants oftendo

And if you lot have the same view of millionaires as you have of [porr people
Please stop reading the daily mail and the Torygraph

thanks

Moominsarescary · 29/11/2011 16:47

Actually if ops partner is on benefits she would get extra if he moved in and they claimed as a couple

maypole1 · 29/11/2011 16:49

fickencharmer un like re ed and his lot their just living in the get to arnt they

she is not a single parent end off

Just like with the mps just because its legal dose not make it right

Its legal to sleep with my bil but I wouldn't

And its legal to say your a single parent when your not have as many children as you like and let the tax payer fund it

Its now very clear why labour got the old heave ho

nursenic · 29/11/2011 16:50

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fickencharmer · 29/11/2011 16:51

candtuff. Judge NOT and be not judge. For goodness sake none of us know each other on mumsnet.

we are just nicknames, sue denims, or anonymousers Chill out, cheer up.

nofrikkincarbs · 29/11/2011 16:51

fickencharmer yes they do get caught - regularly

PlentyOfPubeGardens · 29/11/2011 16:52

Maypole are you saying that people on benefits should not be allowed to date? That non-resident parents should not be allowed to provide practical support to their DC if the resident parent is on benefits? That seems to be what you are frothing saying.

maypole1 · 29/11/2011 16:52

nursenic calm down dear

Hehehehe

fickencharmer · 29/11/2011 16:52

I want to know why the benefit haters love rich people?

Bloodymary · 29/11/2011 16:53

Maypole Erm, I did not understand Confused

fickencharmer · 29/11/2011 16:54

Nofrik I go to court and I have never seen a rich tax cheat there; let alone sent to prison

maypole1 · 29/11/2011 16:54

PlentyOfPubeGardens

Resident and non resident implies they are not together divorced,separated

They are together and have a baby as proof she is as much a single mother as gordon brown was a good pm. Lol

candytuft63 · 29/11/2011 16:56

Where are you Claire, you started something didnt you.
says in little voice..im with maypole

maypole1 · 29/11/2011 16:56

I want to know why the tax payer hater love benefit cheats

nofrikkincarbs · 29/11/2011 16:56

fickencharmer what do you mean 'I go to court'

Yes, tax dodgers DO get caught

flatbread · 29/11/2011 16:57

I am against anyone milking the system.

Some people are rich through their own hard work - why should I hate them?

Similarly, anyone who is disabled or has genuinely tried to work their way through, but fallen on hard times, yes they have my full support.

nursenic · 29/11/2011 16:57

Oh maypole i am calm. You haven't succeeded in making me froth. Much better people than you have failed.

But I thought it was an amusing image-a semi literate bigot spinning in the air.

Moominsarescary · 29/11/2011 16:57

What aload of crap some people talk, they don't care if you are in a relationship if you are living on your own you are intitled to benefits that is the way it works. You are living as a single person

wifey6 · 29/11/2011 16:59

OP...check out directgov.org (hope that's right).
I was physically unable to work after the birth of my son..but as my husband 'works more than 30 hours a week' we are entitled to no help at all!! I have had to return to work but not doing a job I was trained to do due to continuous ill-health. I was so disappointed that we could get no help that I have had to carry on regardless whilst others who are able to work do not & get ridiculous amounts of help!!
I am not aiming this at OP...or people of genuine ill health or disability.
Sorry just felt a rant come over me....rant over!

PlentyOfPubeGardens · 29/11/2011 16:59

Yes, they are sparated. From the OP's posts, my understanding is that they split up when she was already pregnant.

candytuft63 · 29/11/2011 17:00

ficken . Good point, taken. Still with maypole, though.

maypole1 · 29/11/2011 17:02

wifey6 sadly this is the world the hard working and the honest get nothing ironically if you had done as the op you would have been miles better of

But you wanted to be up front not ask on threads how to cheat the system or wiggle your family into a situation were you could get more money

Dawndonna · 29/11/2011 17:06

I'm with nursenic. I quite like the idea of a literate bigot spining in the air, now, where are Dave and George?
Grin

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