Decision Makers Guide - DMG11055

Family membership: meaning of unmarried couples

The term unmarried couple means a man and a woman who are not married to each other but are living together in the same household as husband and wife.

Note 1 Where one or both members of a couple are under the age of 16, they cannot be an unmarried couple. This is because the person under 16 is a child and therefore not a man or a woman.
Note 2 Two people of the same sex cannot be an unmarried couple even where one of them is a trans-sexual as they are not a man and a woman.





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