Benefit fraud?

benidorm59

that letter would have been sent Wednesday system letters take three days to get there. If they now think the capital is over 16k they will email the section could be actioned tomorrow so you would get another letter stating this. Get the bank statements. If the bond is in her name they will know about it

anmarj

put it down and leave it tonight, others have put the wind up you, and potentially made a situatioin worse. chill out tonight and deal with a clear head in the morning, it is not going to do you any good, and things can't be sorted out tonight.

teddysmum

I know was declared bankrupt the people assessing his assets wanted to take his works pension, but as the provider explained , it had no surrender value until he reached pensionable age, so it couldn't be counted as an asset.


My relative has some inherited money in trust with a solicitor ,until he is 26 .This cannot be paid out until he is 26 (he's 12 ) as the benefactor assumed that he would not be mature enough to deal with a large sum any earlier, so it wouldn't count for any income related benefit before that age.


However,in this case, the young lady could be given her money,should her mum wish, so it's not unreachable as in the previous two cases. Obviously the person giving the advice hadn't considered access; not surprising as a number of us have had mis-advice from various government departments.

tomtom256

I work in fraud for the DWP, my last post sums up what you need to do if you want on overpayment only.

Get your daughter to ring them asap before they close the case and make them aware of the £40k in bonds. This will end the matter with an overpayment only.

If you leave it and they close the case, the next interview will be under caution and dealt with criminally as a compliance interview is a "get out of jail free card" so to speak.

elsien

tomtom256 wrote: »

I work in fraud for the DWP, my last post sums up what you need to do if you want on overpayment only.

Get your daughter to ring them asap before they close the case and make them aware of the £40k in bonds. This will end the matter with an overpayment only.

If you leave it and they close the case, the next interview will be under caution and dealt with criminally as a compliance interview is a "get out of jail free card" so to speak.

I don't think the OP has had an interview yet. She's had a letter to attend on Thursday. I think the quote bolded by poppy in post 50 which says had an interview is a typo. That's my reading of it, anyway.

anmarj

Op has said a bit further up, that daughter has had an interview, the daughter has to get bank statements now for the last three years, poppy did mention, and then i said I didn't think it had, but op has stated she has

TELLIT01

benidorm59 wrote: »

I would say you should apply to be her appointee,

Appointee is only appropriate if the person in question is incapable of managing their own financial and other affairs. There has been nothing in the previous post that I have seen to suggest that is the case.

p00hsticks

elsien wrote: »

I don't think the OP has had an interview yet.

The initial post and post 47 both say that the daughter has already attended the interview

Lioness_Twinkletoes

I appreciate you state this is an honest mistake but looking at the OP your daughter has had/got access to £72k - and is still claiming MEANS TESTED benefits.

Are you seriously going to state that neither you nor she knew that this had to be declared? It didn't occur to either of you that she could support herself financially?

You write like you are an intelligent woman so I am just not buying it and I'm not sure the DWP will either.

As others have stated, come totally clean with the DWP, pay back the overpayment and (hopefully hefty) fine then you and your daughter will need to plan sensibly for her future with what is left. Quite apart from anything else, letting her waste £28k was insanity.

Diary

For me personally something doesn't quite ad up here. The daughter was diagnosed at 16 and was apparently bed bound. You then gave her 28 k to spend as much and as quickly as possible including, incredulously for someone who is bed bound, a couple of cars to drive.

You imply you didnt know you daughter would claim benefits, so what did you think your daughter was going to live on if not benefits?
Did you think she would work? If so what changed few months later when she was no longer bed bound to prompt her to claim Esa rather than jsa?

Your daughter needs to come clean about everthing to the DWP as soon as possible. Although you might feel responsible this is not your problem and she needs to at least show willing to sort this out.