Receiving inheritance money when you are on UC

Levatorani123

Yamor said:

Having access to the funds, and even actually spending the money is only usually relevant if it isn't entirely clear whose money it is, in which case DWP can use the fact that you have access to the funds, or that you actually spent the money, as evidence that the money is in fact yours.

However, if there is clear indisputable evidence that the money is not yours, then the fact that you have access to it should not be relevant. Actually spending the money also should not be relevant, although it may raise questions of whether you have acted in your children's best interests.

Yes. This specific money was given to us by grandparents to put in child trust fund/junior isas and there would be a message/email based trail of this. Also it is hopefully clear that we  initially thought we had put it in what used to be a CTF, before we realised we could access it. At that point is was a  case of necessity.  Hopefully in this instance they would see it as in the children's best interest given the financial situation at the time.