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HillStreetBlues

peteuk said:

The question is two fold 
Firstly if the house is in the mothers name, then the OP receiving £23K and giving it to his mother, will be questioned as DoC and the Op treated like he still has the £23K.

Secondly if the flat was in his name, with no mortgage as such, then the flats capital in theory is more than £16K and so there is no entitlement until the capital is less than £16k which it won’t be unless the flats value decreases.  (Or there is a mortage as £23k is cheap for a flat) 

That would depend, the capital in the property would be ignored if one of the parents is over SPA or has LCW.