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Repaying council grant.
scottiescott
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Wonder if anyone can help with this one.
Six years ago (2013) my mother received a grant from the local council to install a stairlift. The terms of the grant stated that the grant should be repaid if the property was sold to anyone other than a family member within 10 years. Sadly my mother died in 2016 but I moved into her house and since I was a family member the grant did not have to be repaid.
However I am now thinking of selling and wondered if anyone had experience of this situation. Specifically wondering if councils have a policy of a graduated repayment, e.g. if you sell after 5 years you have to pay back 50% of the grant received.
I will of course speak to the council but in the meantime I wondered if anyone had experience of this.
Many thanks in advance.
Six years ago (2013) my mother received a grant from the local council to install a stairlift. The terms of the grant stated that the grant should be repaid if the property was sold to anyone other than a family member within 10 years. Sadly my mother died in 2016 but I moved into her house and since I was a family member the grant did not have to be repaid.
However I am now thinking of selling and wondered if anyone had experience of this situation. Specifically wondering if councils have a policy of a graduated repayment, e.g. if you sell after 5 years you have to pay back 50% of the grant received.
I will of course speak to the council but in the meantime I wondered if anyone had experience of this.
Many thanks in advance.
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Would think that your moving in did not constitute a sale, so selling to someone else would and therefore such a sale would trigger repayment.
As for graduated repayment, is there anything about this on your council's website?0 -
It’s unlikely. The ones I have seen all seem to be all or nothing repayments. If there is such a graduated repayment it will be detailed in the grant agreement.0
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