Inheritance Handling while on benefits

calcotti

Although your ESA claim will have an income based part as a couple based claim, depending on your circumstances when it was claimed some of it may be contribution based. If so you will keep the contribution based amount regardless of your savings. You should look at your award letters to see how they are made up (although they are notoriously difficult to understand).

TELLIT01

JackoWayne wrote: »

read over my replies. i screwed up in my description of things in initial post and clarified that we're on couples claims for ESA/Council Tax/Housing Benefit after.
tl;dr: bad at describing things but it'd help to read the whole thread before replying

I'd actually started composing my post earlier and got sidetracked. That's why it appeared after your clarification. Nonetheless criticising people who have taken the trouble to reply isn't a good idea.

Flugelhorn

you mentioned that one of your parents died - is the other one still alive and were they married at the time of the death?

can affect how an intestate estate is divided up

Also if there is no will then it is not probate but letters of administration that you need to apply for - however have you checked that you do actually need them? often don't need them as many banks will accept death cert / evidence of who is a beneficiary etc - can be more complicated if there is a property to sell / stocks and shares / premium bonds etc