Council charging for clearing dead brother council falt

TBagpuss

as everyone else has said, the council can charge the estate, if there was anything in the estate. Thye cannot charge you simply because you are related.

'Next of Kin' is meaningless in this situation.

I would put in writing to the council that you are not administering the estate and so far as you know, it is insolvent, and that as you are not administering the estate they should not be contacting you any further, (If you want, add in ..unless of course they undertake the administration of the estate in which case they can, of course, contact you to arrange to pay for the funeral which is of course the first call on any funds which they might discover.)!

If you have the energy you could also make a  formal complaint to the council about the incorrect and misleading statements made by their employee and how inappropriate this is, particularly under these circumstances.

Shelldean

sevenhills said:

Shelldean said:

Yes we had this with Nan's house when she passed.
We did manage to clear most things, but couldn't remove a few. Neither of us drive and neither of us had any money to pay someone to do it.

So a three piece suite, an almost brand new cooker, a small table and a wardrobe from memory.

It's much better if the relatives do it and sell the good items. Perhaps the council deal with charities that made use of the items.

I n our case there was nothing of value, except the cooker. But we simply didn't have enough time to pop an ad in a shop window or similar to get rid of it. Like I said was before the days of Facebook marketplace etc!

We really did clear as much as we could. I wanted personal things like photos and sentimental items. Worthless to everybody except a relative!

With nans bank account and couple of small insurances we just about broke even. Nothing left for any bills unfortunately.

We just had to sound like a broken record to the council about this debt!