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shanew4874

With regards to the purchase of gym equipment I have taken on board what some have said and do see their point of view. I hadn't committed to any going through with purchase, had only got to the stage of them sending invoice, I am entitled to change my mind, I'm sure they will find someone else to sell to.

Pollycat

shanew4874 wrote: »

With regards to the purchase of gym equipment I have taken on board what some have said and do see their point of view. I hadn't committed to any going through with purchase, had only got to the stage of them sending invoice, I am entitled to change my mind, I'm sure they will find someone else to sell to.

Receiving an invoice sounds like you have committed to 'going through with purchase'.
Despite what you said in your other thread and what you have said in later posts on this thread, you certainly seemed to think you had bought expensive gym equipment in your very first post on this thread.

shanew4874 wrote: »

I have spent £2000 on home multigym equipment for the garage,

Are you sure you are using the right terminology ("invoice")?

If I were you, I would check your consumer rights pdq.

shanew4874 wrote: »

With regards to the purchase of gym equipment I have taken on board what some have said and do see their point of view. I hadn't committed to any going through with purchase, had only got to the stage of them sending invoice, I am entitled to change my mind, I'm sure they will find someone else to sell to.

It's not our 'point of view' you need to take into account.

It's the decision makers who would be deciding if this £2K was a reasonable use of money that you would have to convince.

Actually, you have been given some very good advice below (on your other thread):

pmlindyloo wrote: »

First of all I think that you need to find out exactly whether the award is redundancy or a settlement figure from your employer. It might make a difference

Once you know this then you could ask whether you could spend some of the money on.........................

Get the answer in writing.

I am presuming that you are on income based ESA?(as far as I am aware no mention has been made of this)

It is perfectly possible that certain expenditure would be perfectly acceptable.

And, by the way, any amount over £6000 is treated as tariff income at the rate of £1 for every £250 per week.

You replied below:

shanew4874 wrote: »

Hi, basically they have stated on agreement that they have made me redundant, but redundancy would have only come to max £5000 yet they paid me £13000 as we said to them that unless they agreed to that figure we would be taking them to tribunal.

If your redundancy payment would only have been £5K but they paid you £13K, it doesn't sound like a straightforward redundancy payment.

pmlindyloo (who - from other posts I've read - seems to know quite a bit about benefits) advised you to get something in writing from your ex-employers.
Do you intend to do this?

heartbreak_star

I thought you said it had been installed and the flooring put down?

Anyhoo, if you're not exercising at the moment you'd have been better off going with plyometrics than a super-expensive gym. My ex had incredibly bad depression and realised exercise helped, so he took up jogging and bought a weights bench for <£150 which helped him loads.

(You'd be better off with free weights than a multigym anyway but that's a totally different story...)

HBS x

shanew4874

I have the agreement in hand, it says that I will be made redundant from xx-xx-201x so they are terming it as redundancy. I contacted the company that send me invoice and explained that I could not go through with purchase, they said that its no problem. so at least that's sorted.

owl_lover

There are plenty of multi gyms on Ebay for around £100- this would be more reasonable.
£28 a week isn't much to lose when you have £13000 in the bank. Your entitlement will increase as your savings decrease (unless they disappear too quickly).
I don't think it's worth trying to get more than you are entitled to- you could end up with nothing.

HB58

The rules regarding Deprivation of Capital are not clear-cut and there is a lot of room for different Decision Makers to come to different conclusions. As has been suggested, your best bet is to write to DWP, tell them what you want to spend and ask them for confirmation that this is OK. Keep the reply carefully in case another Decision Maker questions the expenditure in future.

If you are thought to have spent the money in order to gain extra benefits, you could be treated as if you still have the money and your benefit reduced accordingly.

patman99

It is highly likely that they will see this expenditure as 'deprivation of capital', but then when I got made redundant, I spent £500 on a new HDTV & they were ok about it.

£2k to purchase and install a multi-gym suggests the op has gone for a good high-spec piece of kit that will outlast the cheap stuff that the likes of Argos sell many times over.

Whether or not the £2k is/not still considered to be in his possesion, the one piece of advice I will give is that every time your savings drop by £250 make sure to inform the baenifits people so that they can increae your benefits by £1.50.