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Will I Lose My Benefits If I Get Married?
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I'm hoping someone can help. I am currently registered disabled and get ESA as well as PIP. Next year my partner and I are looking to move in together and get married but I was wondering if that would affect my money.
He gets quite a good wage of £400 plus a week but he's always skint as he has 3 children from a previous relationship he pays for as well as clearing old debts so we really need my money to pay for a lot of things.
I hope someone can help
Thanks
I'm hoping someone can help. I am currently registered disabled and get ESA as well as PIP. Next year my partner and I are looking to move in together and get married but I was wondering if that would affect my money.
He gets quite a good wage of £400 plus a week but he's always skint as he has 3 children from a previous relationship he pays for as well as clearing old debts so we really need my money to pay for a lot of things.
I hope someone can help
Thanks
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.I've just discovered that I did the right thing in keeping on being taxed separately. I was going to be asked to be taxed as part of a married couple when I got back from France, but didn't get round to it. I'm very glad I didn't, because once your joint income goes over about £15K you start losing money and paying more tax. Under £15K you save on tax as a married couple. Between us we are getting on for £20K and would have lost £400 p.a.!!! So at least be taxed separately. Don't know about benefits, sorry.
If it is impractical to be legally married, but you are at all religious and it is important to your relationship, then you could ask for a church blessing - would that help? :)
If it is impractical to be legally married, but you are at all religious and it is important to your relationship, then you could ask for a church blessing - would that help? :)
I don't understand that, jourdain. Are you talking about UK tax? Each individual whether married or not is taxed separately based on their own income apart from the married couples allowance for the over 80s (approx age- may be a few years either way). There is now a transferable allowance now for some couples where one doesn't pay tax- is that what you mean?
"Unlike means-tested benefits, there is no income and savings test for contributory ESA."
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