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Housing Benefit for a Married couple that have never lived together
 
splurge
Posted: 13 Apr 2012 at 1.48 pm   [ Ignore ]  
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Two of my clients have always maintained seperate homes and never lived together. They have recently married, but are still living seperately. Having advised the local authority, they are saying that they count as a couple for benefit purposes. Is that correct when they have never lived together?

 
 
   
 
 
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