UNMARRIED NON EU Partner of an EU National claiming benefits

[polistan]

Hello,

I hope you would be fine. I wanted to ask you if you could help me in clarifying an ambiguity.

I am a non-EU unmarried partner of an EU National who has a retained rights status. My partner has a 5-year-old child who lives with us. We live in a Council House and are council tenants.

After reporting the change in circumstances to the council they stopped her housing benefits and the tax credits have been halted too.

I am not allowed to work and have a letter stating that by the Home Office. I have a bit of a complicated Immigration history but that's not an immediate concern as I know it will take a long and a very painful road with a lot of potholes.

Now my question is will they award her any benefit at all? it's really making our life very difficult.

I have no problem to work and contribute financially only if I was allowed to.

Please let me know if anything could be done about it.

Thank you.
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Kind Regards,

Long Live Pak-Pol Friendship

[CR001]

I am a non-EU unmarried partner of an EU National who has a retained rights status.

What exactly do you mean by 'retained rights status'?

Were you married to another EU national and after divorce applied for RoR?

[polistan]

I am a non-EU unmarried partner of an EU National who has a retained rights status.

What exactly do you mean by 'retained rights status'?

Were you married to another EU national and after divorce applied for RoR?

I am sorry there has been an error in writing the previous post. It is not retained right I wanted to write. I wanted to write was an EU national who has been issued with a Residence Card on behalf of Qualified Worker status.

Me being the Non-EU Un Married partner was married to a Eu national before but the relationship has now ended and divorce is in progress.

The main point of me asking this question is that my EU partner had benefits, but when she updated me in her records with the Council they asked her to apply again. When she did the Benefits caseworker is asking for a lot of irrelevant documents regarding me.

Me question was that me being a NON-EU unmarried partner, would it effect on her benefits in any way.

Thank you.