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Inspector right or wrong?

  • 10-04-2014 11:19pm
    #1
    Sineaaad
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1 ✭


    Hi All

    To cut a long stories shortish Im 29 year old who had been living with my boyfriend and my son in rented accommodation for just over a year. Recently as times got tougher and tougher on us and with my job seekers benefit cut since it switched to job seekers allowance we had to make the awful decision to move from what we hoped would be our family home. I've moved back in with my parents and my boyfriend moved back to his parents. The query I have is when I changed my address and registered it with social welfare. I told them our circumstances that while we still are a couple we no longer live together. The welfare inspector reassessed my claim and informed me that I'm not entitled to any extra payment as we are seen as only geographically separated. I accepted there decision until now as an old friend who has worked for social welfare in the past has told me I should be assessed with my inhabitants at my parents home.

    Any opinions or advice is very welcome
    Thanks for reading

    .


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  • #2
    eastbono
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,758 ✭✭✭eastbono


    When you get the result of the means test and if its still applying your boyfriends earnings as means be sure and appeal the result as you are no longer co-hab.


  • #3
    axel rose
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,050 ✭✭✭axel rose


    Surely you realise the difference between a couple who choose not to live together and a parent raising a child without a partner? Either you are a committed family unit or you are not. The inspector is correct.

    If the spouse of a married couple had to move abroad to work, would you assume that they split up? It's the same thing here.

    Would you have been eligible for FIS? Did you check it out?

    You are not a single parent, you choose not to live together, You are very lucky that you can live under your parents roof and will have cheaper lifestyle expenses and bills.


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