Advice needed on tax credits please

[1busymum04]

Hi everyone, I am someone can point me in the right direction. I am due to give birth to my fourth child in a few weeks time. Since I relocated to be nearer the father of my baby I have been using my partners address although my three children and I stay at other addresses the majority of the time and we visit my baby father. We were still deciding the whether or not to co habit. The tax credits have contacted me now saying that they believe I have a partner and need to review my situation. I am just about to be re housed with my children. Obviously I am worried tax credits might stop.

Where you live does not really make any difference either you are a single parent or you are in a relationship. If you are single and have no financial links with your children's dad that is what tax credits want to know. Or, do you have joint account/bills/ does he pay school dinners/rent etc. if you are in a relationship whether you live together or apart you are both jointly responsible for the financial upkeep of your family.

It will look highly suspicious to them that you use your partners address because it willlook like you live together and are not a single parent. The fact that he is your latest baby's father will not help the situation because it will look like you are a couple, whichin fact you are. You will need to start gathering informatin to prove that he does not support you financially in any way and that you pay all your own bills etc. If he does support you financially then it's best to make a joint claim and accept that you may need to pay money back.

Thanks for the information. He does not support me financially and the other addresses where i have been staying have all said i can let HMRC i have been there. If they say i have been overpaid what will happen? Thanks .

If they say you've been overpaid you can appeal, but also be prepared to pay it back.

Your child's father will be obliged to support you financially with maintenance, of course. Why can't he support you before the child arrives?

I honestly do not get how this is possible. You are in enough of a relationship to get pregnant, use his address and 'think about' living with him full time.

However, not enough of a relationship so he helps to support you and his baby so the State picks up the tab

To all intents and purposes you are a couple and you have a partner. Can't see how you are a single parent. You're not. And the fact you are using his address will hardly help matters from anyone's point of view.

They are right to question the claim though, you are in a relationship with a man whose child you are carrying yet claim to be single to the benefit people.

They will probably stop them whilst they investigate. Why is this man not supporting you, you are pregnant with his child?