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Wife claiming cb,ctc,hb,ctb,wtb

Questions and discussions about claiming benefits while living and working in the UK

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Wife claiming cb,ctc,hb,ctb,wtb

Post by Jaanraja » Tue Jul 03, 2012 6:44 pm

Hi John and friends,
I m recently married to a British citizen a week ago who have children from her previous husband and was claiming child benefit, child tax credit, working tax credit, housing benefit from the council, and council benefit me and her both work parttime as I m on student visa here she is working 16 hours a week and me 19 hours a week as far as i know if u get marry to someone u have to report that to the benefits department so we went to the council today to discuss about the housing benefit and coucil tax benefit and told them about our situation that we r being married now so they ask for my pay slips and national insurance no which we gave them than they done the calculation according to our pay removed the single person discount and increased the rent from 20 pound per week to 51 pound per week and also increased the council tax which my partner was never paying before to 101 pound a month but said ur still entitled to 6pound council tax benefit and £58 pound housing benefit as her original rent is £109 pound per week cud u please advice me what should I do now coz I m
Gonna make my application for flr(m) in two days coz of the rule changing on 9th July that is housing benefit or council tax benefit will affect the outcome of my visa and what should Can any one help plz thnx

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Re: Wife claiming cb,ctc,hb,ctb,wtb

Post by Lucapooka » Sat Jul 07, 2012 11:04 am

Jaanraja wrote:I recently married to a British citizen a week ago who have children from her previous husband and was claiming child benefit, child tax credit, working tax credit, housing benefit from the council, and council benefit
She is entitled to that.

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Re: Wife claiming cb,ctc,hb,ctb,wtb

Post by Jaanraja » Sat Jul 28, 2012 12:14 am

She is entitled to that.

thnx luca but i m still not clear on this cud u please confirm me that all those benefits which i mentioned before, Are they gonna affect my flrm application?
i mean can my visa be refused on the basis that she is claiming benefits

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Re: Wife claiming cb,ctc,hb,ctb,wtb

Post by Jaanraja » Sat Jul 28, 2012 1:04 am

[quote="Lucapooka"]

She is entitled to that.

thnx luca but i m still not clear on this cud u please confirm me that all those benefits which i mentioned before, Are they gonna affect my flrm application?
i mean can my visa be refused on the basis that she is claiming benefits

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