Council Housing

[juliajules1979]

I am a british citizen and my husband is in the UK on a spousal visa. ILR application is due Feb 2011. I have put our names onto the council housing register.

Will it be ok to include a letter showing that we have registered, or will it appear that we are trying to use public funds?

I spoke to home office and they told me to ask the council. Neither knew the guidelines.

Could somebody please advise. Many thanks.

[mochyn]

As a British citizen you are entitled to public funds and your application for council housing will have no effect on your spouses ILR

[juliajules1979]

Thanks so much for your reply. Will it matter that an application letter has both our names on it?

[mochyn]

Thanks so much for your reply. Will it matter that an application letter has both our names on it?

No it won't matter

[juliajules1979]

Thanks so much for your advice. One more question.We claimed WTC (with myself as main applicant, husband as joint applicant). I was going to submit the docs as evidence of joint names, they show that we recieved payments of £4,000 in a year, legally of course! These payments will stop in April as we are now both earning over the threshold, so when i complete set M in Jan 2011 for ILR, I will tick No, that we dont recieve public funds. Will the fact that we have included a letter showing we claimed WTC, make them think we are lying when we tick No to recieving public funds?

Many, many thanks.