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  • soolin
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    DebtMan2017 wrote: »
    Too many people in here seem to be avoiding the most important question......

    How much was the inheritance ? :rotfl:

    I'm not sure what the point of your rolling face is?

    However since people have both asked outright about the amount of the inheritance and also gone through the basics of how the amount received makes a difference to the benefits- perhaps you are not reading the same thread I am?
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  • Alice_Holt
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  • xylophone
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    If I'm really honest I got some inheritance and I genuinely didn't believe it was classed as income as I was not using it monthly to live on and was a lump sum.

    It wasn't income (although you may have been receiving some savings income from it) but it was capital, and there are rules about MTBs and capital.

    I should think that receipt of the inheritance would also have qualified as a change of circumstances which should have been reported.

    Once you own more than a certain amount of capital you are expected to use it against expenses formerly covered by benefits.
  • dippy3103
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    marliepanda wrote: »
    But believe me, they will find out about the investigation and that claim will be assessed by the council. Considering housing benefit is very often assessed by the same office that deals with council tax reduction...

    Oh there is no doubting that
  • Gaz1971
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    How did they find out? They can't just look in your account any time they feel like it, it's against the law, and the fact you claim benefits does not allow them to ignore the law, so someone must have reported you for some reason.
  • Mojisola
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    Gaz1971 wrote: »
    How did they find out? They can't just look in your account any time they feel like it, it's against the law, and the fact you claim benefits does not allow them to ignore the law, so someone must have reported you for some reason.

    https://www.nhsbsa.nhs.uk/penalty-charges/prescription-exemption-checking-service
  • Gaz1971
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    Mojisola wrote: »
    https://www.nhsbsa.nhs.uk/penalty-charges/prescription-exemption-checking-service

    What has that got to do with it?
  • Mojisola
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    Gaz1971 wrote: »
    How did they find out?
    Gaz1971 wrote: »
    What has that got to do with it?

    That could be how they found out.
  • Gaz1971
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    How the hell does applying for free prescriptions lead them to find out you have money in the bank?
  • newbutold
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    Mjl17xx wrote: »
    I revived the lump sum in march 2015
    And the amount I'm unsure of because i don't know if they'll take into consideration the other benefits from the council & HRMC or just the 1 benefit from DWP

    Savings are not taken into account when working out Tax credits but they are taken into account for Housing Benefit.

    Although if you earn interest over £300 pa on your savings, this interest is counted as income for tax credits.
    If my posts have random wrong words, please blame the damn autocorrect not me :D
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