Pension Credit and Notional Income Advice

grumpytoo

Colin, hopefully your company pension or annuity is "locked-up" and is not able to be claimed until you are 65.

Even so watch out for weasel words like "Notional" and "Deemed". Believe you me, the way that these pen-pushers work makes living in England just like living in a third world banana republic.

IMHO the entire tax and benefits system is rotten to the core. For example a person that I know was put through hell over his alleged ownership of a villa in Spain. It turned out that the "Villa in Spain" was actually a shepherds hut in France that had only cost 5000 euros so the case was dismissed. Nevertheless the man who is aged over seventy was given a harrowing time owing to having had no income for over two years.

In a similar trumped-up case a 69 year old was given a 12 month prison sentence (suspended) for fraud. His "crime" was still having his name on worthless deeds of an abandoned property in Spain. As he only had a quarter share (on paper) in the property and as he had never paid anything towards his share, the man on the number nine omnibus would assume that he owned nothing. The fact that Spaniards were living in the property and had been doing so for several years made the chance of liquidating his "asset" slim to none. Furthermore the deeds stipulated that all four shareholders had to sign if the property was to be sold. Two had gone away and one had died so it was literally a dead-loss.

In spite of all this his pension was cut to about £45 per week but his rent was £75! All done with "notional" and "deeming".

sleepless_saver

This is a year old thread:(.

grumpytoo

The age of the thread doesn't matter very much.

What is important is that the underhanded activities of these "gatherers" is made public.

bigadaj

Or more importantly to put forward conspiracy theories and rail against the system when you claim to be a victim presumably?