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Inheritance in will
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Probate takes about 8 weeks from the date of approval, if theirs no property to sold, or no complications of someone challenging the will.
Get in touch with the executor, ask them if probate has been applied for and granted.0 -
DWP can take months.
MIL's estate has been dragging on for ages as DWP insisted on bank statements from 2006 which the banks cannot supply. They believe MIl's savings may have crept over the threshold for Pension Credit. If they did, thanks to interest accumulating, it is only by a small amount, already more than it has cost them to investigate in time and phone calls and postage!
Maybe the OP's situation is somewhat similar?
Patience is needed.
But seriously, why worry?
The bequest is to a minor, so it will have to be in trust anyway.0 -
That is a very sweeping statement and is simply wrong. It can take less or much more.Probate takes about 8 weeks from the date of approval, if theirs no property to sold, or no complications of someone challenging the will.
Get in touch with the executor, ask them if probate has been applied for and granted.0 -
Newly_retired wrote: »DWP can take months.
MIL's estate has been dragging on for ages as DWP insisted on bank statements from 2006 which the banks cannot supply. They believe MIl's savings may have crept over the threshold for Pension Credit. If they did, thanks to interest accumulating, it is only by a small amount, already more than it has cost them to investigate in time and phone calls and postage!
Didn't your mother have an 'assessed income period' when she was on PC? My parents had a small inheritance while they were getting PC but, because they had an AIP, it didn't affect how much PC they received.0 -
When my mother died she/her estate was owed the pension due from the date of last payment till the date of death. Nothing else.
It took DWP seven months to pay it.0 -
Yes, Mojjisola, she did have an AIP, which is why we can't understand why they need to investigate now.0
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