PBS Dependent - SET(O) Individual applicant queries

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Applying for Settling in the UK under SET(O) application

I am a British citizen, previously 5 year in Tier 1 (General) Visa then a year in ILR.
My wife will be applying to settle through SETO, she currently holds an indefinite leave to remain with a status of PBS dependant leave to Remain. She will qualify for ILR soon. I have a few questions to which I am not able to get close enough answers and thought I’d ask here who may have been in a similar situation as me and has successfully applied for ILR.

She is currently filling out the form as the main applicant, most of the sections in the document makes sense except when it comes to Section 12 Documents. Below I have listed statements from the form and my query relating to it.

Section 12 – Documents
• Your valid passport or (except a PBS applicant) a national identity card. If you do not have these, your most recent passport or (except a PBS applicant) national identity card. If you have neither of these, you can provide a travel document. If you last entered the UK on a previous passport, national identity card or travel document, please also provide this document if you have it.

Does this mean that she doesn’t need to submit her passport?

• Any previous passports or travel documents you have held during your stay in the UK.

Shall submit old passport as her initial dependent VISA is stamped on it .

• If you have a spouse or civil partner listed in section 2 of this application form who is applying at the same time as you, please provide documentary evidence of cohabitation since you were last granted leave (up to a maximum of two years). Evidence provided should cover the whole period and be in the form of official letters or documents, addressed to yourself and your spouse.

As the main applicant here is a PBS dependant does evidence of cohabitation required? If so would a marriage certificate, Council tax bill stating her name along with mine suffice? Or is this even needed ?

YOUR FINANCES
• Evidence of your finances. If you have to complete section 5, bank statements, building society savings book(s), pay slips or other formal documents as evidence of your ability to maintain and accommodate yourself and any dependants without recourse to public funds. (See NOTE 4).
Note 4: We do not accept cashpoint statements as evidence of finances. Online statements can be accepted if accompanied by a supporting letter from the bank or building society, on company headed paper, confirming the statement provided is authentic or if they bear the official stamp of the bank or building society on every page. If you claim that a relative or friend is providing you with financial support (see question 5.4), in addition to evidence of your own finances, you must provide bank statements or other documents of the kind described above as evidence of their financial resources. The documents showing the finances available to you and to any person supporting you should cover at least the last three months.

Below is what I have filled out for this section
Section 5 – Your home and finances
5.1 Is your home in the UK ? Other (Owned by my husband)
5.2 Do you or partner, or both, pay any rent or mortgage for you home? Yes (Insert monthly rental value)
5.3 Are you working in the UK? No
5.4 Does a relative or friend of you or your partner, or both of you, regularly give you money? No
5.5 NA
5.6 NA
5.7 NA
5.8 NA
5.9 NA

Do we still need to show bank statements I can show my bank statement however it’s not clear as to how much money I need to maintain for the three months.

Any help on this is much appreciated.

Thanks and Regards