Impact of Pension Credit Assessed Income Period at death?

janarchy

"It gave me an initial fright that I could have done without."

It's made my life a misery, to be frank. It's really hard losing someone you loved and looked after for years. Several financial sacrifices along the way, too, working hours cut, and more. Then there's the fact that the nature of my mother's illness meant bed, linen, carpets had to replaced. Beyond cleaning. And furniture went downstairs- collected by the council - to make way for a hospital bed.

I vascular damaged my legs in the process of moving furniture in the final days of my mother's life, cleaned mould off walls, replaced carpet fluffy with mould and more. It wouldn't have been a sterile environment. Not surprisingly my legs have never healed.

But I would go through it all again for another day with my mum. And the worry caused by the DWP has seriously made me wonder if my own life is worth living- I'll be 70 this summer, I'm increasingly disabled and have the ticking time bomb of small vessel cerebral vascular disease, picked up by mri scan in 2020 and which I confirmed with another scan last Nov. Carers allowance, which ends when your belated (at 66) state pension begins is another concern given the controversial purge on that.

The fact they seem to leave the latter to when you have finished 'caring' seems cynical. By then you've been part of a safety net which saves the state the equivalent of a second NHS.

Personally I would love to see Martin Lewis take up both issues and talk to some of us.

With regard to my mother's pension credit AIP, indefinite, it clearly stated she did not have to report changes in savings or investments unless she thought it would entitle her to more Pension Credit. Sub text , not less, and sub-sub text (!) because we may claw it back from your grieving relatives. The current Pension Credit promotion seems little more than a PR exercise but at least AIPs are no longer part of the equation for new claimants.,

Savvy_Sue

I am sorry for your loss, and the stress this is causing.

But if you have letters stating that she did not have to report changes unless these would entitle her to a higher rate of PC, Is there the option to respond to their letter to you with a copy of their letter to her?