Hi all! i've had the best news ive had all year! my appeal came back and i was found NOT to be living with a partner whhhooooopppp whhoooppp:). yes im really pleased that ive been now cleared and all my benefits have now been reinstated. got all my bk pay (which is takin myself and my kiddies away for a few days next week. need to make it up to them with all the stress ive had made me not my happy mummy self) im still having problems with the housing benefits at the moment my housing benefits are bk in payment but the over payments is causing a little confusement due to me having 4 appeals at the same time (so basicly they dont know what they are doing) however its getting sorted!!! im now happily getting through my last 2 months of college with no worries! but i do know one thing for sure i will be back in work as soon as this course is done and i never want benefits to ever have the chance to do this to me again. it has been the worst 3 months of my life. anyone that is going through the same my advice is DO NOT BACK DOWN NO MATTER HOW HARD THIS GETS IF YOU ARE NOT GUILTY STICK TO YOUR GUNS!! i know at times i felt like just giving in and admitting to things i had not done just for it all to stop... but dont. i am a strong willed person and can deal with most bad things life throws at me but this OMG it turned me upside down & inside out. i really do feel for anyone going through this when not guilty and i hope the end out come is just as good as mine was. im going to complain to the dwp as they could have ended my career as easy as that when ive worked so hard. i doubt very much that i wouldve gone bk in sept to start it all again i wouldnt have had the heart too. but at least my life is now bk to normal;)

this is now my 8th week with no benefits, my housing benefit is still also cancelled. im living on child tax & crisis loans. my bills are not getting payed. a new claim for IS has also gone to a higher decision maker as i have said my circumstances havent changed (no partner has moved out) im still un able to claim....what do they want me to do lie n say he's moved out???? all i keep getting told is be patient!!!!! now im seeking legal advice also about contact for my child and his father as i now know he is taking drugs again! wat else can ever go wrong now. with the stories ive been looking at on this site ive now come to the conclusion that my review will come back stating the same (living with a partner) there going to take it to the exstream arnt they???....well im sticking to my guns also no way will i be pushed to admitting something i havnt done even if it means i have to quit college, my home or anything else its just not happening!!!

This is getting worse every day, i have now been told by the dwp i can not have any further crisis loans as i have to wait my appeal!! what about my rent account?? i've now had to get my self alot of support from advice centres, health visitor, solicitors and ive even been to see my dr as im having sleepless nights. my college work has suffered and i'm now thinking about packing it all in and getting some paid employment so i can afford the rent. i have done phone call after phone call and attended appointment after appointment im at my wits end and seem to be getting no where. I've put in a new claim for Is and been refused because i said my circumstances have not changed. which in my eyes im still a single parent with 2 children. if i'd av said id recantly splitt from a partner i would be entitled. but i'm not going to say that when i've been splitt up 13 mth. so now i'm having to appeal that decision also. i wish they would just visit my home and have a look round and put a stop to all this. what gets me though is that my ex is no longer employed and he can claim jsa from his home address but i can't claim IS because he apparantly lives here. i had an appointment at the dwp yesterday (which was a totally waste of my time the lady i spoke to had no idea what she was on about. she told me my ex claiming was not proof that i didn't have him living with me??? and told me to make me or him claim for the whole family when he dosn't live with us. in the end i lost my temper how many times do i have to repeat myself. i am not with him in a relationship or living with him. this is so stressful.

Im going through the same think but my accussation was that i have a partner living with me. unfortunatly my decision has come back as i have told a pack of lies at my interview, my benefits have stopped, rent & ct are full, childcare stopped while im a full time student! i can not beleive sum nasty twisted people out there who have nothing better to do. as a result in this im ready for blowing my top with certain folk on this road. there was no concrete evidence & i gave a really genuine reason why my ex was seen at my house 3 times in 8 weeks! i feel like a criminal when i honestly have done no wrong. at the moment im asking for the desion to be reviewed im taking this all the way but in the mean time i can not begin to say how much stress im under & how angry i feel. people who report people should be made to leave there details so they can be later asked to why they made these accusations. hope you get your wanted out come...it may be a long stress full process but hopefully in the end we will be proven innocant

:-(I have been wrongly accused of claiming benefits for IS. I had to attend an interview under caution which i attended in November with my solicitor. They told me they had been tipped off that i had a partner living with me for 2 years!! my home had been under survalince for around 8 weeks & they had sightings of a male coming out of my home on a morning on three occasions ( dates 7th, 24th & 31st) all in one mth. i explained the situations one of those times i wasn't even there myself as i had attended a family party 80 miles away from my home with my 2 children, i explained my ex was there lookin after my home & dog. end of the day just because we dont want to be in a relationship with each other it dosnt mean we have to fall out. i will not allow my children to stop with him at his parents over night due to his past drugs use. i dont want to get solicitors involved arranging contact centres as i feel this could push my ex bk to his old ways. i still care about him regarding that as it will be my kids that would suffer when i stop him seeing them totally if that did happen again. however that is the only evidence they had. which i had nothing to worry about because i wasnt doing anything wrong. on the other 2 nights i explained im a full time mature student that has alot of work to do for my course. im not fortunate to get help from my family with babysitting while i study as they all work long hours during the week. so every now & again i will allow there dad to stay here in my spare room while i have a full nite with my studying alone without getting disrupted. I've just had my decision back after all this time...the letter says they have decided im no longer entitled to IS due to me having a partner living with me (Still now) i am absolutly gobbed smack i couldnt believe this was happening to me. i honestly thought the decision would be nothing to worry about. My IS was stopped from then, i was on full rent & council tax & to make it worse they have stopped the childcare which was funded by new deal so now im unable to finnish my course which im really upset about. im doing so well ive even been doing voluntary work to help me gain the experiance i need for becoming a youth worker. this has turned my whole life upside down, i cant concentrate with anything. ive put in for a review but in the mean time i dont know what to do? ive rang every where for help & advice, i feel absolutly let down by this. how can someone be so nasty & make these wrongly accusations & put me under so much stress! & why have the DWP come to this decision. Has anyone else been in this situation? what happens next? how long will it take? what if they still say im not telling the truth? im desprate for this to be resolved but over my dead body will i admit to something i have not done. this is so so stress full & i wouldn't wish this happening to any one who is innocent. i think the people who ring & make these false accusations should leave there names & be prosacuted there selfs in these situations. what happens if they keep doing it to me will i have to go through this all the time. to make matters worse i have now told my childrens dad i can not have him at my house in future which now has made alot more problems for me & him & the children. wat a mess