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Co Habitation with house mate

  • 06-06-2011 6:55pm
    #1
    alan2009
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32 ✭


    Hi

    I am looking for some advise, hope i can get it here. I moved into a house 2 years ago with a girl on the rent agreement it clearly states house share we pay rent separately and halve all the bills in the house. In the last 2 years we bout have be unemployed and have received full dole entitlement no questions asked as we were not a couple then. Now the two of us work on the casual system and we now want to develop a relationship and need to go to the social welfare. what i am leading to is that we know one of our payments will be cut but will there be an investigation as in interviews of family members or friends and such.

    We are willing to be honest and tell them we are a couple we just don't want to involve family and friends in our personal troubles.

    thanks in advance for any help


Comments

  • #2
    Balagan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,168 ✭✭✭Balagan


    Best thing is for both of you to go asap to the SW and let them know of the change in your circumstances. You wouldn't be the first two people to house share and end up in a relationship! If you yourselves give this info to SW now there cannot be any reason why your family or friends would be involved at all.


  • #3
    SarahC11
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 114 ✭✭SarahC11


    me and my bf are a cohabiting couple,i had my own place first then he moved in so we went to the Community welfare officer he said fine just go to dole office and we signed a form so i could claim cohabbiting couple jobseeekers for both of us and that was it they didnt ask questions just gave me the form and increased the amount of money in a couple of weeks


  • #4
    alan2009
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32 ✭alan2009


    sorry i am just getting back to this post now i went to the sw office and i just signed a form and there was no questions asked so I think honesty is best policy in regard to this issue. thank u all for the replies


  • #5
    Annasopra
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 41,214 ✭✭✭✭Annasopra


    By the way - hope you are aware of the changes in cohabitation law

    www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=71860653

    It was so much easier to blame it on Them. It was bleakly depressing to think that They were Us. If it was Them, then nothing was anyone's fault. If it was us, what did that make Me? After all, I'm one of Us. I must be. I've certainly never thought of myself as one of Them. No one ever thinks of themselves as one of Them. We're always one of Us. It's Them that do the bad things.

    Terry Pratchet



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