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Housing Benefit - inheriting a house.

Alexandra09
Alexandra09 Posts: 1 Newbie
edited 4 October 2010 at 8:27PM in Benefits & tax credits
Hi all , I cannot seem to find an answer to my questions and even my

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  • Oldernotwiser
    Oldernotwiser Posts: 37,425 Forumite
    Cryptic - even by MSE standards!
  • seven-day-weekend
    seven-day-weekend Posts: 36,755 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 10,000 Posts Name Dropper Photogenic
    I know we often have to ask for further information, but this is ridiculous!
    (AKA HRH_MUngo)
    Member #10 of £2 savers club
    Imagine someone holding forth on biology whose only knowledge of the subject is the Book of British Birds, and you have a rough idea of what it feels like to read Richard Dawkins on theology: Terry Eagleton
  • dmg24
    dmg24 Posts: 33,920 Forumite
    10,000 Posts
    OP has inherited the residue of an estate (her mum gets the first £125,000). The house will be put in joint names. She wanted to know whether she would still be entitled to full HB. ;)
    Gone ... or have I?
  • seven-day-weekend
    seven-day-weekend Posts: 36,755 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 10,000 Posts Name Dropper Photogenic
    Ah. The usual, then.
    (AKA HRH_MUngo)
    Member #10 of £2 savers club
    Imagine someone holding forth on biology whose only knowledge of the subject is the Book of British Birds, and you have a rough idea of what it feels like to read Richard Dawkins on theology: Terry Eagleton
  • Jomo
    Jomo Posts: 8,253 Forumite
    hahahahaha not another one!!
  • Orville
    Orville Posts: 1,906 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Combo Breaker PPI Party Pooper
    Just out of interest, what would happen if say you inhereted half a house along with your sister, but they lived there and could not afford to buy you out..? Would you be stopped HB immediately, or would you be given time to explore legal avenues and still claim.
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