need advice....

[English Rose]

Nobody can save £400 if they are on benefits unless they are doing something illegal. A single man over 25 and looking for a job gets £64.30. If your boyfriend is receiving £700 a month, then this includes a sum to pay for his housing. If he doesn't need the money for the rent then he must tell the benefits office, who will reduce his money.

[bornatbirth]

Nobody can save £400 if they are on benefits unless they are doing something illegal. A single man over 25 and looking for a job gets £64.30. If your boyfriend is receiving £700 a month, then this includes a sum to pay for his housing. If he doesn't need the money for the rent then he must tell the benefits office, who will reduce his money.

how do you know what benefits he is on

i suggest before you post the above you ask first,unless you know him

[adie_daryl]

how do you know what benefits he is on

i suggest before you post the above you ask first,unless you know him

hi bornatbirth 191103 im agree with you it seems he knows him more than me

[English Rose]

how do you know what benefits he is on

i suggest before you post the above you ask first,unless you know him

I looked on the Government website to see what the benefits are. I quoted the sum for a single man looking for a job. This may not meet his profile, but will be the approximate figure he gets. If he has dependants living with him he will get a bit more but not a huge amount. The benefits system only allows for a very basic existence.
The only way I can see he would get £770 a month is if he's in receipt of Housing Benefit. Adie Daryl writes that he is no longer paying rent. This supports my theory that he put in a claim for Housing Benefit at some time, but now no longer needs it.
I was just trying to be helpful. If he is in receipt of benefits he should no longer be getting, it will come out in the visa process so it's best to get it sorted out before then, because he would have to repay all of the benefits he was overpaid.