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right to buy while unemployed?
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OP has taken their bat home and deleted all their posts - no point in further comments on here ...0
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Oh dear, now look what you have done members, you've not given the OP the reply they wanted and gone and deleted the posts.0
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It's a question worth asking, since many benefits are considered as income by some lenders (DLA, Carer's Allowance, ESA support group, etc). It's incorrect to state that you need to be in 'paid work' to get a mortgage.
The OP needs to receive a gift from a relative for the amount required. As long as that gift was for buying the house, he/she would still be able to carry on claiming JSA (after making the necessary declarations to the Job Centre). Unlikely, I know.....but an elderly relative might see this is as a better alternative than gifting money in a will to the OP, given that any significant sum would result in benefits being stopped.''He who takes no offence at anyone either on account of their faults, or on account of his own suspicious thoughts, has knowledge of God and of things devine.''0
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