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Housing benefit and inheritence - not enought to live planning future and laws law

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  • atush
    atush Posts: 18,731 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 10,000 Posts Name Dropper
    To be even more even handed, perhaps we should leave politics to the Arms?

    Or are we all turning into agarnett?
  • redbuzzard
    redbuzzard Posts: 718 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 500 Posts Combo Breaker
    ninja7 wrote: »
    Hes basically now believes hes losing all his benefits (thats what his sister told him [...] and he has to live off whatever he gets (the 16k) till he dies or runs out of money and goes into homeless shelter.

    I have just had the unpleasant thought that the sister might be suggesting that it would be better for her brother of she got 'his' money instead. I do hope not.

    No wonder he's worried. A visit to CAB sounds a good idea - if he can take it in, it should make him feel a lot less stressed.
    "Things are never so bad they can't be made worse" - Humphrey Bogart
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