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29,500 Inheritance. How long do I have to buy a property after inheriting when receiving UC

Wantsagoodlife · 2025-03-31 10:57:59

Hello, I'm hoping someone can help answer this. Has anyone been in receipt of UC and inherited a similar amount of money that they wanted to buy a house with? After doing google searches it seems that, when in receipt of UC and inheriting money; that is deemed acceptable to use it to buy a property to live in. As you can…

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Muttleythefrog Posts: 20,538 Forumite

1 April at 2:29PM edited 1 April at 2:31PM

Yeah bit confusing as how you will fund this purchase unless getting other (non mortgage) help... which I think is why people are giving you some other advice you might not be interested in.... details seem omitted or the circumstances are highly unusual (like a family home of £30k exists somewhere and is habitable)

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