Stockton-on-Tees Borough Council

Civil Partnerships and your benefits

For Housing Benefit and Council Tax Benefit, same sex couples who have formed a civil partnership or who are living together as if they were civil partners, will be treated in the same way as opposite sex couples who are married or are living together as husband and wife. This means the income of both partners is used when working out benefit.

Failure to inform the Benefits Service that you are forming a civil partnership or are living together as civil partners could mean that your Housing Benefit/Council Tax Benefit is overpaid and you may be asked to repay it.