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Can my child’s father move in to my private rented flat for which I receive full housing benefit?

Hi there,

My partner and I have a 6 month old little boy and we want to live together in September this year. My son and I currently live in a 2 bed flat through a private landlord found by Harrow Council's let-start scheme and I get full/most of my housing benefit paid. In September I will be starting an access course and so will my child's dad (a level 3 qualification) which means he will only be working less than 16 hours and I won't be able to work at all because I won't be able to afford the childcare for the days I am not at college. - (sorry that was a long one!). But if you're still following, can I move my child's father in with us from September and will I still be entitled to the following benefits: full housing benefit, child tax credits, council tax benefit? It's just we don't want to move in together if it sacrifices the help I'm currently getting but we really want to try and work things out again for the sake of our gorgeous little boy growing up in a loving 2 parent home, which is what neither of us had growing up.
Thanks everyone for your helpful responses, I'm not yet qualified to rate otherwise you all would be rated great.

FYI "cool" Hal, we have both worked all our lives paying a hell of allot of money in tax and N.I - this is the first time I've ever had to be in a situation where I claim benefits. I am going to do a degree in occupational therapy to help people who are less able to help themselves. My baby's father is going to become a social worker after working for years helping disadvantaged youth and neither of us could afford to go to college or Uni when we left school but now there is a way to. We both really want to make a difference in this world. We also need to be in professional careers to provide a better wage for our child and in the long run support him throughout his entire life rather than rely on benefits if say I'm made redundant again or worse something happens to one of us. Do you have kids? If you did you would understand wanting the best start in life for them
In addition to that, if one of us goes to work and the other to Uni, we still have the cost of childcare to consider. We would automatically get working tax credits to cover this - about £600 per month, like allot of people in this country are entitled to. But doing it this way we don't have any childcare difficulties as we would work between ourselves to cover it. So I think all works out quite fair in the long run. Perhaps you could consider changing your profile name... I think Shallow Hal works better!
Shallow Hal, you are obviously fortunate enough to be in a relatively good position in life, yourself and your wife and congrats to you, I have allot of respect for that. Your life turned out perfectly, marriage, children, open university, life just gets better. Unfortunately not everything is so simple for everyone. Am I relying on a bit of help from the government to help me get by, well the answer is yes. But not for the fun of it but because I actually need it. If you want to spend more quality time with your children I suggest you stop wasting your time attacking peoples lifestyles on the internet, it doesn't half say allot about you as a person. Perhaps you could also be less insulting to my 6 month old child, by saying you are supporting him, how dare you. Honestly, just free up some of your hard earned time and leave playing the Judger to God. Now please, just go away.
On a healthy salary for the past 5 years I would say I've paid my fair share of tax and N.I and I cover my own bills and childs expenses through part-time work I do at the moment. Tell me you don't receive child benefit for your two kids and I'll leave it alone but if you do then you're living a big fat contradiction and frankly you should go and fuc yourself.Twit.

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