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lodger and job seekers allowance

  • 07-05-2017 7:52am
    #1
    mille100piedi
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 396 ✭✭


    One of my lodger requested job seeker allowance. He gave me a form for a mean test and he told me that the welfare office told him that as a cohabitant I have to fill it . I don't feel comfortable because I have to disclose my income, my income has nothing to do with his financial situation.
    What I should do? I don't want to make problem to my lodger but honestly I don't see the reason why he should be aware of my incomes


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  • #2
    Victor
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 78,580 ✭✭✭✭Victor


    A 'cohabitant' is someone you are living with as 'husband and wife'.

    I take it that this isn't the case. If so, you don't have to fill in the form and he doesn't need it for social welfare - he should just fill in "no relation" or similar.


  • #3
    goz83
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,035 ✭✭✭goz83


    Is the lodger paying rent? If yes, then he needs to speak to someone else at the SW office. They often give people the run around. I was a lodger 15 years ago. I got injured in a bike courier job and I was making very little money anyway, so I had to pack it in and look for something else. It was the home owner who suggested that I go to the SW for temporary help. They gave me the same form your lodger has given you. Best thing to do is write and sign a letter with your details to explain that your lodger is a person paying rent and is not a co-habitant.

    For the record, you might refer to their own definition of a cohabitant, which is on the welfare website under section 1, 172....top of page.

    a cohabitant is one of 2 adults (whether of the same or the opposite sex) who live together as a couple in an intimate and committed relationship and who are not related to each other within the prohibited degrees of relationship or married to each other or civil partners of each other.


  • #4
    mille100piedi
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 396 ✭✭mille100piedi


    Victor wrote: »
    A 'cohabitant' is someone you are living with as 'husband and wife'.

    I take it that this isn't the case. If so, you don't have to fill in the form and he doesn't need it for social welfare - he should just fill in "no relation" or similar.

    we are a married couple and he is not my second husband. lol


  • #5
    mille100piedi
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 396 ✭✭mille100piedi


    goz83 wrote: »
    Is the lodger paying rent? If yes, then he needs to speak to someone else at the SW office. They often give people the run around. I was a lodger 15 years ago. I got injured in a bike courier job and I was making very little money anyway, so I had to pack it in and look for something else. It was the home owner who suggested that I go to the SW for temporary help. They gave me the same form your lodger has given you. Best thing to do is write and sign a letter with your details to explain that your lodger is a person paying rent and is not a co-habitant.

    For the record, you might refer to their own definition of a cohabitant, which is on the welfare website under section 1, 172....top of page.

    a cohabitant is one of 2 adults (whether of the same or the opposite sex) who live together as a couple in an intimate and committed relationship and who are not related to each other within the prohibited degrees of relationship or married to each other or civil partners of each other.

    Thank you very much, now it is much more clear


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