Housing Benefit Problem

Rothschild

dmg24 wrote: »

It is just a bit of a ramble, and you contradict yourself. Unfortunately, none of it makes sense.

Well if you find it too difficult or challenging for you to understand all i can do is simply advise that you enroll on an English GCSE course at your local college to improve your reading skills,
or,
just simply don't comment on things which you are unable to comprhend.

TheBottomLine_2

An English course would only help with posts that are actually written in English.

GlasweJen

Lol, employment situation at the time of inheritance doesn't matter. Basically if you're on a 50k salary (what the OP has spent per year) then they think it's reasonable for you to budget and live on 50k. Regardless of your wage though a transaction for 100k going into your account will be counted as "capital" rather than "income" so if the person on 50k got an inheritance for 100k the council would still want to know where the 100k was 2 years down the line when they went to claim benefits.

Not sure i've phrased that properly but i'm tired, will edit tomorrow if necessary.

Breast_Cancer_Survivor

For means tested benefits, a person may be treated as having income or capital even though they do not actually possess it. This can occur if the decision maker thinks the claimant has:

• Deliberately got rid of income/capital in order to keep or claim benefit (called deprivation of capital)
• Failed to apply for income or capital in order to keep claim benefit
• Not yet received income/capital which is due. For example wages legally due but not paid. For example where the employer is paying less than the national minimum wage
• Benefited indirectly from third party payments where money is paid to someone on the claimants' behalf. For example money paid to a landlord for the claimant's rent
• Performed cheap or unpaid labour and the decision maker thinks they should be properly paid for it
• Given a 'gift' to someone else in order to keep or claim benefit.

In all these cases, the decision maker may assume the claimant still possess the income or capital.

property.advert

I knew someone who received in the 1980s the 2010 equivalent of about £250,000 and !!!!ed it all up, gambled it all away, etc. in a little over 18 months. He didn't even pay back his mortgage.

He would say that he too lent money to people but he conveniently forgets the thousands spent on booze and fruit machines and trips to the bookies. He was a disgrace.