Fair enough Corrona but it is simple to find out your legal entitlement; you go the Citizens' Advice Bureau, the Local Authority, the Job Centre and ask.
However, the point some of us are trying to get across it that it is highly unlikely that any full-time student (whether with stay-at-home wife and kids) will be entitled to any state benefit.
If someone decides to prevaricate on the truth and receive said benefits, then on their own head be it.
An aviation forum is NOT the place to be asking about entitlement to state benefits; that should be the place of the organisations mentioned above. Now whilst I am currently a Government Auditor working on Housing Benefit claims and am reasonably au fait with the rules, it would be professionally remiss of me to give any individual advice.
Cheers
Whirls