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Need to do a DRO

I think i need to do a DRO i have about 3,000 debt mostly catalogue, I am single unemployed and likely to be so for some time i fear. I havea very small amount of savings which i need as the housing benefit keeps messing up and i am having to pay my rent form that have about two months worth of rent left in my savings. I know i can only have 300 assets but is there any way around this as I am too scared to run out of money all together even if i spent everythign i have on debt it would not clear them
Any answers
please no telings off.
thanks you

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  • rainbowj63 wrote: »
    I think i need to do a DRO i have about 3,000 debt mostly catalogue, I am single unemployed and likely to be so for some time i fear. I havea very small amount of savings which i need as the housing benefit keeps messing up and i am having to pay my rent form that have about two months worth of rent left in my savings. I know i can only have 300 assets but is there any way around this as I am too scared to run out of money all together even if i spent everythign i have on debt it would not clear them
    Any answers
    please no telings off.
    thanks you

    I suppose there is no reasons for those savings to show up on the system is there?
    I wouldn't even call it savings - more a float.
    I can well understand your desire to skirt around the rules. I know how much HB can screw up and it can leave someone homeless when they do that.
    Any reason you can't have cash stash at home?
  • dannynixon
    dannynixon Posts: 418 Forumite
    Agreed, don't declare it and take it out and hide it in a piggy bank at home!
    LBM - 30/07/09
    Started DMP in Oct 2009, went wrong. Due to start new DMP in March/April 2013. Bring it on!
    :beer:
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