This petition was submitted during the 2017-2019 parliament
Rejected petition Clarify your meaning and use of the term 'living together as though married'!
Many of your benefit claims exclude cohabiting couples from claiming if they 'are living together as though married'.Namely pension and bereavement benefit.
You use the term to exclude benefits and to remove benefits.You can't use the same term for totally opposite reasons, and its a clear misnomer
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Should a widow or widower be in receipt of this benefit and then live with another person, you remove the benefit, because you consider them to be 'living together as though married'. I do agree with this.
This is misinterpretation of the term and used to disadvantage cohabiting couples.
Cohabiting couples are either 'living together as though married' OR NOT 'living together as though married'.
This is unfair and discriminatory against cohabiting couples and needs clarifying and changing.
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