also my partner and i have decided we WOULD like to start living together properly and want to ring council tax to tell them this and set a direct debit up for payments on monday, if we do this would it make our situation worse?

Hi Guys, I received a letter through my door a couple of days ago from the council tax benefit investigations service saying they called to visit me. I rang the number on the letter straight away and the person i spoke to said they believed 2 other people to be living with me which is crazy!!. My story is this up until december 2007 me and my now ex partner had always paid regular council tax. In december 2007 he left and as i was caring for my severely disabled and terminally ill son i could not return to work. I have never received income support or anything i survived on his disability living allowance, child tax credits and my carers allowance and was still paying council tax but at a reduced rate. Then some time last year someone suggested i apply for council tax beneift as i may be entitled. I applied and it was granted. Then at the end of january this year my son died. I rang all agencies straight away telling them my circumstances had changed etc. I tohught i had informed everyone until i received a new council tax benefit letter in april and then i realised i hadnt told them but was not worried as i knew i would still have been entitled. As it happens i was just about to start work anyway so i informed them that i was starting work and also that my other son had died and they asked me to send them lots of info as i could still be entitled to help as i was on a low part time wage so i went into the office and they copied my wage slips and my sons nursery receipts, my mortgage details, child tax credit forms etc and never heard back from them so i assumed i was still entitled. So now im worried its because of this althugh i gave them ALL information they asked for and have the receipt for it. Anyway thats one part. The second part is that i have been seeing someone for a couple of months and they do spend most of their time here although he gives me no money towards house/food etc and i can prove this with bank statements. When this person comes round to ask me questions (as they said they will next week) if they query is my boyfriend living here i feel happy to say no but then will they ask me where he IS living? In that case it means telling them he lives at his mums although i know she has not been paying council tax for him either so it will drop her in it. In fact he has had a few different addresses in the past few years and never paid any council tax so he will get dropped in it also. When they ask questions should i just be truthful and say yes he has been spending most nights here and that he basically does live here? does that mean that i have done something wrong even though i receive no money??. As for who the second person could be who apparently lives with me i have NO clue as i never even have friends round! The only thing i can think of is that i still recieve some letters from the people who used to live here 4 years ago although i keep sending them back saying not known at this address, could that be it??. Anyway i just wanted an honest opinion of what is going to happen to me and what i should do Thankyou