Inheritance, Housing benefit/Council tax benefit and debt

Spoonie_Turtle

sheramber said:

Spoonie_Turtle said:

sheramber said:

Should taxpayers be paying for her car?

I don't know.  They would be paying for her bus fares if she could make use of her bus pass. 
(Although if there are indeed buses she can use then I agree it's much less likely the expenditure could be classed as reasonable - depending on the facts of the case which the DM will have to hopefully a full extent, which we don't.) 

If the £6k in question* were treated as notional capital for HB, the tariff income would be £12/week, just for some context.

I've also reskimmed the thread and I can't see where I got £6k from*, I might be thinking of a different thread.  But OP says she now has below £10k, erroneously believing that's the threshold for benefit eligibility, whereas it's £16k for HB and no set limit for PC (but if she has full state pension there'll likely be no PC entitlement anyway).  So if they class the car spending as unreasonable and still treating it as notional capital, it may be moot if if it doesn't take her over £16k still.

The bigger spending on repaying loans that she may not be able to prove is the more important issue, AND for HB there might also be the issue of even if proven, whether the debt/s is/are deemed to have been due.

*If it's actually 2-3k (the only other potential figure I could see, the 'bit on top' of the debt, mentioned by OP) then tariff income for that would be £4-6/week.  

According to Shelter the capital limit for HB for persons over working age is £10,000z .

It is the  council who are checking the bank statements so presumably for HB and CT help. 

That's the point at which tariff deductions start.  The eligibility limit is 16k.