Should I pay Housing Association

bearwood120a

My father in law recently died and at the time was disabled, divorced and living in housing association property.

His benefit a few days after his death and we are required to payback one payment which came out two days later

He has no car or house and only had what he has in his savings account. Most of this was used to pay his basic funeral costs and I paid the rest.

The housing association are asking for 6 weeks rent following death 4 weeks is the notice period however they are saying it dates from the next monday following recept of the completed form. It took a week before we were told a form had to be completed. not happy!!

he also has £155 credit card and now a bill for £300 for carers. this will mean that his account will not cover all of this.

Question is should I pay any of this if so in what order and once his savings have gone do they have any legal position to chase daughter for the remaining.

obviously this is frustrating that we are going to be left in financial difficulty if we have to incurr costs.

fyi credit card had a payment that went out for credit card protection £75 which we are challenging as he was not in a state of mind to make such decision a few weeks before he died

MX5huggy

Look on direct.gov website and search for death. There is info on there. But the bottom line is that you personally don't owe any money. There is an order that the creditors must be paid form the estate.

BitterAndTwisted

You are not personally liable for any of this. If there's no money left in the estate to pay anyone then they don't get paid.

theartfullodger

Sorry to hear about your f-in-l.

F-in-L's estate may be liable for these debts but you ain't liable.

I'd write them all the same letter: polite, calm, brief: list his assets, state where they went, say the estate is unable to pay any further charges.