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ex WGS Hamm
My brother who owns his own home and works full time and has never claimed
any kind of benefit. lived with a woman who deiced her ship had come in when
she met him and stopped work.
He paid for everything, including the purchase of her shiny newish BMW.
She lived with him for 3 years, until he went on holiday with some mates,
came back, and discovered she had cleared his house ad buggered off. Police
aren't interested as apparently she was his common law wife. She took photo
albums of his kiddies, items he had had since he was a child and other
stuff. She wiped files from his computer too. Turns out that the whole time
she was with him she was also claiming income support. He never knew about
this and was supporting her thinking that his was the sole income and she
had nothing, hence him paying all her bills etc.
DSS have contacted him about this.She apparently denied she was lliving with
him as a common law wife and he was not supporting her.
Recently he was doing some work on his PC and discovered some files which
prove he was paying for her and indeed living as man and wife for the last 3
years.
So what will happen?
Obviously I will be happy if she gets done big time. Either way she cannot
win. If she says she was living as man and wife, DSS have her, and if she
claims she was a lodger, he can go to the police and have her charged with
the theft of his belongings.
any kind of benefit. lived with a woman who deiced her ship had come in when
she met him and stopped work.
He paid for everything, including the purchase of her shiny newish BMW.
She lived with him for 3 years, until he went on holiday with some mates,
came back, and discovered she had cleared his house ad buggered off. Police
aren't interested as apparently she was his common law wife. She took photo
albums of his kiddies, items he had had since he was a child and other
stuff. She wiped files from his computer too. Turns out that the whole time
she was with him she was also claiming income support. He never knew about
this and was supporting her thinking that his was the sole income and she
had nothing, hence him paying all her bills etc.
DSS have contacted him about this.She apparently denied she was lliving with
him as a common law wife and he was not supporting her.
Recently he was doing some work on his PC and discovered some files which
prove he was paying for her and indeed living as man and wife for the last 3
years.
So what will happen?
Obviously I will be happy if she gets done big time. Either way she cannot
win. If she says she was living as man and wife, DSS have her, and if she
claims she was a lodger, he can go to the police and have her charged with
the theft of his belongings.